December 2010
13 posts
“… he reveals that he sleeps in the nude, unintentionally setting thousands...”
– Paul Constant. “Reading Regret, Writing Regret.” The Stranger.
The Stranger’s Jason Baxter:
The original Tron may not have aged well over the past 28 years, but it still deserves props for breaking cinematic ground. In an unprecedented achievement, 16 minutes of Tron were generated solely by something called a “computer” (circa 1982, I’m told the term was “steam-powered mechanized abacus”), and the film, according to...
The Millions, as a year-end thing, are featuring some folks favorite reads. This includes people like Joshua Cohen, Sam Lipsyte, and Dan Kois, who, seemingly against his better judgment, chose Freedom: “Believe me: I’m not proud of myself. I feel like a real douche.”
“6. The detective novel must have a detective in it; and a detective is not a...”
– S.S. Van Dine. “Twenty rules for writing detective stories.” American Magazine.
“I do a lot of work for seminary students. I like seminary students. They seem so...”
– Ed Dante. “The Shadow Scholar.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
“One of the reasons the C-note was recently redesigned was to make life harder...”
– Timothy Noah. “Hundred-dollar bills are for criminals and sociopaths. Why do we still print them?” Slate.
“Here’s the reason I view that answer as incomplete: Franzen is so utterly...”
– Chuck Klosterman. “The Jonathan Franzen Award for Jaw-Dropping Literary Genius Goes to… Jonathan Franzen.” GQ.
“Russia, which I had hoped would go entirely with a “Putin, crossbow...”
– Brian Phillips. “Why the United States lost out on its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.” Slate.
“Anyway, I started to paraphrase all of this for you, as is our usual wont, but...”
– Sean O’Neal. “Here are 10 context-free passages from Randy and Evi Quaid’s insane Vanity Fair profile” The A.V. Club.
“Deadline TV’s Nellie Andreeva reports that The Walking Dead writer, executive...”
– Robert Seidman. “The Walking Dead To Its Writers: Great Season, Great Ratings, You’re Fired!” TV by the Numbers.
“We propose to canvas a range of critical accounts of the contemporary university...”
– Patricia Cohen. “Do Zombies Eat Ivy? The Undead Reach Academia.” The New York Times.
“But here’s a radical suggestion: why don’t all the newsboys, tabloid...”
– David Cote. “Can Spider-Man musical rise above the web onslaught?” The Guardian U.K.
“She declined to provide an example of the test but said typical questions are...”
– Dean Beeby. “Immigrants failing citizenship test in record number.” The Globe and Mail.