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Link Party: 4/25-4/29
Here’s what I read this week: 1. This essay about working for a tech company in Silicon Valley is harrowing. 2. A glimpse of Larry Gagosian’s art empire. 3. I didn’t live on campus when I was in college, but I appreciated this essay about campus dining hall food. 4. An interview with the woman…
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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…
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Link Party: 9/14-9/18
Here’s what I read this week: 1. I follow Anne Helen Petersen on Twitter, and was not surprised that this profile on Alison Brie was so well-written and so thoughtful. A must-read. (Also, I like how Buzzfeed is stepping up its design game.) 2. This is a great article that explains the history and methodology…
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Link Party: 9/7-9/11
I’ve had this quote from Ira Glass saved for awhile, but one of my closest friends, Valerie, sent it to me this week — a very trying week for me — and it is so incredibly profound to me now that I’m trying my very best to remember it. Nobody tells this to people who…
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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…
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Link Party: 7/20-7/24
I had a good week and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. A Paul Ford discussion on Internet security in light of both the Ashley Madison hacks and the latest Gawker controversy. 2. I finished “The White Album” earlier this week, so I am loving this Paris Review interview with Joan Didion. 3. Inside couture…
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Link Party: 6/29-7/3
Here’s what I read this week: 1. I didn’t notice how many X should buy Y articles there are out there, and now I will. 2. I’m not a fan of Taylor Swift, but after reading this essay I understand her cultural pull a little more. 3. The Notorious RBG. 4. I haven’t watched the…
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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…
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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…