Zoë Lance.

  • Tune Time: May 2016

    Here’s what I’ve been listening to lately: Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home. I realized recently that I don’t listen to a lot of Bob Dylan, and that I needed to fix that to keep my rock cred. I decided to start with Bringing It All Back Home, his fifth album. This is best known…

  • Link Party: 12/21-12/25

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I first heard excerpts of Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” on This American Life in an episode for Sinatra’s 100th birthday, and the full article is stellar. 2. What the Mast Brothers chocolate scandal tells us about ourselves. 3. I’m not entirely sold on the merits of…

  • Link Party: 9/21-9/25

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I loved this essay about annotating Alice in Wonderland and the contemporary connection of Genius. This is the kind of literary analysis content I’m here for. 2. The influence of Kanye West’s “808s and Heartbreak” on the rap world of 2015. 3. A French history of fancy frames. 4.…

  • Link Party: 8/3-8/7

    I had a really difficult time this week getting interested in what I was reading and finding stuff to write about — the motivation for a forthcoming blog post. Here’s what I read that I actually found insightful: 1. Adventures in typography. 2. Infiltrating a white pride Facebook group and turning it into a LGBT Southerners for…

  • Link Party: 6/8-6/12

    I’m so overwhelmed that so many people liked yesterday’s post. Thank you. On to what I read this week: 1. I haven’t finished it because it might be a billion words, but Paul Ford’s explanation of coding is incredible. 2. We all knew this already, but closing bookstores is a very bad idea. 3. Secret…

  • Link Party: 4/27-5/1

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A fascinating mini-profile on Louis Sarno, a musicologist that lives amongst the Bayaka in the Central African Republic. 2. It’s okay to run through The Six with your woes and then cry about it, Drake. 3. What the new Twitter Highlights tells us about Twitter and ourselves. 4.…

  • Culture Connoisseur: The Top 10 Albums of My College Experience

    The other night I tweeted about how I tend to associate music and books. I like to listen to music while I read or do homework (which usually involves reading anyway) and can often think of a book or album and what I was reading or listening to at the time. I also realized that there are…

  • 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: 2/16-2/20

    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…