• Link Party: 10/5-10/9

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The secret to great driving songs. 2. This story about a New England magazine that has managed to stay in business for 80 years makes me believe in the future of journalism. 3. After reading about it and how it’ll stream Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, I think…

  • Link Party: 9/28-10/2

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Read this profile of Ina Garten ASAP. 2. This article about hair as a gender marker and what it does as a gender marker was really fascinating. (The New Republic had a lot of good stuff this week and I don’t traditionally link more than once to the same publication,…

  • Link Party: 8/24-8/28

    Oh man, what a week. That’s all I can say. Here’s what I read: 1. This writer played a word game based on Moby Dick when he had insomnia. His observations are fascinating. 2. A highly scientific, real-life exploration into how anyone could possibly like the rapper J. Cole. (Disclosure: I liked his latest album when…

  • Link Party: 7/6-7/10

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I love Diane Keaton, and this New Yorker profile from the 1970s is fantastic. 2. Why babies in medieval art look like ugly old men. 3. I say it every week on Twitter, but Rachel McAdams as Ani Bezzerides is truly the best part of this season of True…

  • 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: 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…