Violation finds the art in artlessness in a collection of essays.
The New Yorker
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The Exploitation Machine
John Seabrook on How Your Top 40 Sausage Gets Made
John Seabrook on how your Top 40 sausage gets made.
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Tom Cruise Running
What We Talk About When We Talk About Tom Cruise Running
What we talk about when we talk about Tom Cruise running.
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Everything as Fuck
Earthquakes
Things to know about the impending earthquake apocalypse.
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A Season in Hell, or Not
The Extreme High and Lows of Tig Notaro’s Comedy Tour
Charting the extreme highs and lows of Tig Notaro’s comedy tour.
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Listen to This by Alex Ross
New Yorker Music Critic Finds New Things in the Familiar
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross’ new book is a disjointed but effective series of essays.
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Tom Bissell: The Mercury Interview
A New Way of Thinking (and Writing) about Videogames
Earlier this week, I interviewed Portland writer/professor/gamer Tom Bissell about his new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. Bissell’s book is absolutely fantastic, and a short version of my interview with him can be found here. Between gameplay sessions of Dead Space and Demon Souls, Bissell and I talked for like an hour and […]