December 2010
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Everybody's doing this so I wanted to join in the...
My 2010 #longreads list, off the top of my head and kind of random, probably excluding lots of great pieces that I loved but cannot think of at the moment:
“Lounge Lizard John Lurie’s disappearing act,” Tad Friend, The New Yorker
“Roger Ebert: The Essential Man,” Chris Jones, Esquire
“Millard Drexler, J. Crew’s master of merchandising,” Nick...
maxwolf:
Interviewer: Did you hear t.A.T.u’s version of ‘How Soon Is Now’? Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don’t know much about them. Interviewer: They’re the teenage Russian lesbians. Morrissey: Well, aren’t we all?
Steve is right about this one. t.A.T.u. was (is?) pretty awesome.
25 reporting credits and enviable prose by Robert...
I hope to write spot news as eloquently by the time I’m in my seventies:
The two-day blizzard that attacked the East Coast on Sunday, the worst in four years, was over by late Monday morning, churning to oblivion in the Canadian Maritimes and leaving a trail of disruption in a dozen states from the Carolinas to Maine.
[…]
New York was a city of apocalyptic silence in the morning....
So these things happened
Our 7:25 p.m. Monday flight to Frankfurt out of Newark was canceled. We found this out around noon. We were not able to connect with a Continental service agent until around five because they weren’t accepting calls all day because too many people were trying to call. The service agent told us that our only option was a Thursday flight to Hamburg, which is at the opposite end of the country...
infinitejess:
This was one of those Christmases where you remember the stuff that really matters. In ways good and bad. Here was a good. My dad saying, “Hey, there’s a box of magazines with Courtney Love on them upstairs, do you want it?”
Because. You know what else I knew I’d find in that box?
I have not squealed like that on Christmas morning in quite some time.
abelson:
after four and a half years as a new york observer staff reporter, which followed a summer internship in 2006 right after i graduated from college, which followed an internship the summer before that one, i’m leaving the finest salmon colored newspaper this side of the atlantic ocean.
[…]
but here comes the happy part. i’ve been hired to join a seriously exciting finance team at...
"Is that Angela Chase or it-girl Alexa Chung?... →
Read this!
“Who are all these old preppy people? Tell me... →
The Soho House murder, told two ways →
Must-read.
‘Operation Ivy League’ was great news for... →
I spent most of today whipping up a timely feature. Made me feel like a real deadline reporter! Like at a newspaper or something.
“No Apple gadget will ‘save’ the news. But, with a few years under...”
– Capital New York
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“Ms. Kaufman treated many of her regular patrons as both friends and extended...”
– NYT’s Elaine Kaufman obit
I will leave it to my esteemed editor to sell this... →
-Capital New York