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A.J. Jacobs’s Esquire piece titled “I Think You’re Fat.”
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
This play is set in the very near future Then 7 years after that Then 75 years after that
Anne Washburn • Mr Burns
important writing finds a way to accurately represent life, and that the writing that does so will consciously intermingle with the meaningful culture of the time (impermanent though it may be).
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
My friend Lauren told me that back when she was young and single there was a certain kind of guy she’d never liked because they only ever seemed to be provisionally present—always keeping their coats on, sitting on the arm of the sofa, affecting an air of being just about to take off for a better party somewhere else. Later, she said, after everyon
... See moreTim Kreider • I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
I want to go out. But I have no one to go out with and no clue where to go.” He paused to tell his nieces to shut up. “I’ll probably just get some sushi alone.” I’d assumed that the great Mystery would have girls lined up every night of the week and a wait-list of sargers eager to take him out clubbing. Instead, he was stagnating at home. His fathe
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
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