"But self-publishing a blog should never be conflated with an unpaid internship. Unpaid internships are for chumps. They are a disgusting scam that ensures that the pipeline into the industry is clogged with wealthy college kids"
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"The Tennis magazine cuts were particularly grievous, and at one point I remember getting into a bit of a tiff with the head editor, who’s this, you know, Connecticut lady with a lot of yellow in her closet, I think."
Scocca interviewed David Foster Wallace interview in 1998.
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"As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you’re trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I’d like to work for you."
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How New York ‘Times’ Political Columnist David Brooks Manages to Be Both Irrelevant and Absolutely Essential -- New York Magazine →
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Pretty good profile. I’m still right on the fence as far as loving or hating Brooks goes, but I think that’s pretty much the point.
A Pacemaker Wrecks a Family's Life - NYTimes.com →
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Wow, what a beautiful, terribly sad essay/memoir.
"Shutter Island” takes place off the coast of Massachusetts in 1954. I’m sorry, that should be OFF THE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS! IN 1954! since every detail and incident in the movie, however minor, is subjected to frantic, almost demented (and not always unenjoyable) amplification. The wail of strangled cellos accompanies shots of the titular island, a sinister, rain-lashed outcropping that is home to a mental hospital for the CRIMINALLY INSANE! The color scheme is lurid, and the camera movements telegraph anxiety. Nothing is as it seems. Something TERRIBLE is afoot."
AO Scott writes the best first paragraph of a movie review ever in the NYT.
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"If, as Michael Kinsley once observed, Al Gore was an old person’s idea of a young person, then Gladwell is a young person’s idea of an old person’s idea of a young person."
From NY Mag’s profile of Malcolm Gladwell, which (the source) is interesting if only because Gladwell is a writer for semi-rival NY mag the New Yorker. Actually, maybe not, since most of those NY mags have a masthead with some writers who tend to transcend the masthead.
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