January 2012
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October 2011
4 posts
The Courage of Someone Else's Convictions
Elizabeth on Ellen Willis (and writing about Ellen Willis).
emilybooks:
by Elizabeth Gumport
When people write about Ellen Willis, they tend to write in the first person. A friend pointed this out last week, after listening to me complain about trying to write about No More Nice Girls. It was so good, I told her, I felt like anything I wrote wouldn’t be on its level, wouldn’t capture the...
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August 2011
2 posts
February 2011
1 post
andrewjay:
Here’s 2 the eggs
Huzzah.
January 2011
5 posts
GRE Test Prep
With many thanks to proofing the FCI’s Level 5 and 6 recipes, I will have no problem with the word viscous. Or the noun form viscosity, if that comes up.
Urban Anthropologist, Hipster Apologist →
chagrinternet:
I did an interview with Molly Atlas for More Intelligent Life’s blog, about this book
MIL: Part of the frustration with hipsters seems to be that they say something very complicated about privilege, in particular about the privilege of the early “millennials” who came of age in the boom years. I mean, in most instances, aren’t we dealing with the white upper-middle-class?
DT: I...
December 2010
2 posts
Watch
November 2010
5 posts
LCD Soundsystem - “All I Want (Live in...
3 tags
Michelle on watching the marathon
“A word to the wise: If you call your parents to catch up, but begin the phone call with 5 minutes of pretending you were in a horrible accident and are now blind, THEY WILL BE VERY UPSET WITH YOU.”
October 2010
9 posts
3 tags
“To exhilarate in so much matter and to find it all leading to nowhere—the...”
– ”Heartache and the thousand natural shocks.” Christine Smallwood’s review of Freedom. Early in the review, Smallwood isolates one of my favorite lines from the book too: “This wasn’t the person he’d thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he’d been...
3 surprises before 3 pm, 10/23/10
Surprise! I’m in New York.
Surprise! I’m in Portland.
Surprise! We’re interested in the Spanish rights for What Was the Hipster?
All descriptions of hipsters are doomed to... →
The annotated TOC is online now! I pick up the books tomorrow in PA.
Okay, first things first I'll eat your brains.
Is everyone going to be Nicki Minaj for Halloween?
If not, dibs.
September 2010
8 posts
In which every time you say something about New... →
Free Williamsburg: One last question. As someone who’s been incredibly successful with their work, do you have any advice for those of us living here, holding down three jobs just to pay the rent and trying to find the time to make art?
Laurie Anderson: You know when I started being an artist I had this friend who said really irritating things to me. I would say “Look Richie, you don’t...
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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: PRR guide to downtown... →
PRR:
so anyway last night me and mike ate at the dining hall on Washington Square West just north of W. 4th St and i was thinking about how this is the first september since i was like 4 years old that i am not going Back To School and how it feels like graduating from college was like getting shot out of a cannon into adulthood, which is something i think about a lot
on the new No Age...
August 2010
11 posts
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staring at "what was the hipster" covers
“…kind of appealing in a mindfuck way.”
Watchtoasterwaffles:
Who wants to go to the beach today?
Me. Yes!
July 2010
24 posts
It's less a story, maybe, than about getting... →
The Paris Review: The whole of 03 is a single, propulsive monologue—uninterrupted, even, by paragraph breaks. How important was it for you to make this a story that should be read in a single sitting?
Jean-Christophe Valtat: It’s less a story, maybe, than about getting frustrated by the impossibility of any story to happen. I always wanted the book to be short and filled up to the brim...
