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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.…

  • Link Party: 2/29-3/5

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This is a fascinating story about the history of the Kate Spade brand and its mythos. 2. Trader Joe‘s rejection of social media. 3. Email newsletters are the new zines. 4. Let’s talk about the Amazon Dash buttons, and what they mean for us as consumers. 5. Bob Dylan’s secret archive…

  • Link Party: 1/25-1/29

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The performance of race, gender and identity on Vine. If you use or know of Vine, you should read this. 2. This story about the role of Facebook’s community standards for the Internet brings up some important questions about Facebook and the public. 3. The world of fake…

  • Link Party: 1/18-1/22

    What happened to all of my time this week? I have no idea. Back to regularly scheduled programming next week. Here’s what I read: 1. This is a fascinating article on the future of parking — I have reservations about self-driving cars, but I’m all for making cities more livable. 2. I originally listened to this…

  • 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…

  • Link Party: 12/14-12/18

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Meet the stylist with an insane vintage clothing collection that Kanye West and Rihanna like to borrow. 2. I cosign this Album of the Year nomination for the “Hamilton” soundtrack. 3. I don’t usually read a lot of sports journalism, but this personal essay about childhood abuse from a…

  • Link Party: 12/7-12/11

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Author Jhumpa Lahiri shares her beautiful story of learning Italian. 2. Star Wars: The Merch Awakens. (I love this headline a lot.) 3. I love this idea for a bookstore: curated collections and a more personal experience. 4. A bunch of words will disappear from the verbal section…

  • 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…

  • Link Party: 11/2-11/6

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A deeper and comparative look at Humans of New York. (For the record, I’ve never been a big fan of HONY.) 2. The Tetris effect is exactly why I can’t play puzzle games on my phone anymore. 3. Dorms for grownups, in the vein of coworking. (This sounds uncomfortable.)…

  • 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,…