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  • Link Party: 3/2-3/6

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Someone mapped out all of Drake’s references to Toronto. 2. An interesting look at forensic linguistics. 3. Daniel Norris is a millionaire and the future of the Toronto Blue Jays, but he lives in a Volkswagen bus outside of a Wal-Mart. 4. Kanye West’s talk at Oxford is everything.…

  • Link Party: 2/23-2/27

    I had a great week, and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. This chat between two editors, who had never met before but tried to get the other to feel the most profound sense of dread and panic from reading an email,  is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a…

  • Link Party: 2/16-2/20

    This week was not a good one for me, creatively or academically. But I’m bouncing back, and will have more posts next week. But here’s what I  was able to read: 1. I like to think that this profile of The New Yorker query proofreader Mary Norris is a projection of my future. 2. Ruth Bader…

  • Link Party: 2/9-2/13

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The only Kanye West-Beck-Grammys article that I actually agreed with. My favorite sentence: “Kanye’s confidence and self-worth is Tibetan monk-level solid and it will not be brought down because you are trying to throw mud balls at a blimp.” 2. Stephen Marche on rereading Hamlet and The Inimitable…

  • Link Party: 2/2-2/6

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. An incredible feature on Annie Dillard. 2. The future of cursive handwriting. 3. What happens when pockets of the Internet evaporate. 4. A very interesting take on cohabitation, and what happens to your books. 5. The book that is truly the master class in hailing Satan. And a bonus: Valentino’s…

  • Link Party: 1/26-1/30

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. W. H. Auden‘s syllabus is incredible. 2. An interesting conversation between a man and his parents about what to do with their social media presences after they die. 3. A sweater-wearing squid is a real thing. 4. You probably shouldn’t use that exclamation point. 5. A review on a…

  • Link Party: 1/19-1/23

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A very interesting conversation about people who don’t have parents and how they figure out finances. 2. Typewriter emoji is a thing, apparently. 3. The life of a Karl Lagerfeld muse is crazy. 4. Life lessons from Georgia O’Keeffe. 5. A new typeface, designed by algorithms. And a…

  • Link Party: 1/12-1/16

    Weird, weird, weird week. But here’s what I read: 1. A fascinating article about whether or not homelessness in Sim City is a bug or a feature. 2. With the help of her friends, Joan Traub Ades helps student musicians in the Manhattan School of Music find outfits for performances. 3. The working life of Gwyned Filling, the poster…

  • Link Party: 1/5-1/9

      Here’s what I read this week: 1. Ezra Koenig is definitely going to own 2015. 2. A very interesting longform piece about the guys who founded Rap Genius. 3. People are referring to sandwiches as “homemade Subway,” which makes me really sad. 4. T.S. Eliot invented the hipster. and 5. An interesting perspective on…

  • Link Party: 12/29-1/2

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A really interesting profile on Emerson Spartz, who has made a lot of websites you probably recognize. 2. Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaborated. No big deal. 3. Jay Wilds gives an interview about Serial, and now I’m not sure who to believe. 4. There’s a medical school…