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Link Party: 3/7-3/11
Here’s what I read this week: 1. These two professors programmed a computer to analyze the works of authors with and without MFAs, and when they looked at the data their results were Not Good. 2. When you listen to music, you’re never alone. 3. I relished in reading about Iris Apfel’s recent week in Paris.…
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Link Party: 1/11-1/15
Here’s what I read this week: 1. On Sunday at 11:30 p.m. I got a New York Times notification that David Bowie had died, which left me feeling empty as I tried to sleep and gutted at the beginning of the week. I remember the very first time and the very first Bowie song I listened…
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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…
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Link Party: 11/30-12/4
Here’s what I read this week: 1. Read about the original culinary road warriors and their quest to document American cuisine. 2. Sifting through the trash of San Francisco to find art. 3. Tattoos in the fine art world. 4. I didn’t know a lot about SoulCycle besides it being a very expensive spin class, but after reading…
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Link Party: 11/23-11/27
Here’s what I read this week: 1. People actually used to talk at the movies. 2. The Paris Review’s author interviews are really the best. Here’s a fantastic one with Ernest Hemingway. 3. How the New York Times’ City Room blog helped spark its digital evolution. 4. The millennial housing crisis. 5. I first read Nora Ephron’s…