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A24 seals clapping after Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime”: Nonfiction is a horrible manipulative contrivance and that’s bad!
A24 seals clapping after Lance Oppenheim’s “You Can See Everything”: Nonfiction is a horrible manipulative contrivance and that’s good!
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I spent a year working the apps for DoorDash, Uber, Amazon and more; saw disturbing things; brought people single cookies; probably delivered drugs; smashed up my nose; met people who made insane journeys to get you pad thai; wondered what we’re doing here simonandschuster.com/books/D…
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I haven’t seen the movie yet but I confess the kinds of questions about truth and performance that people seem so interested in seem to me to be straightforwardly tedious
This is the most satisfyingly analytical essay I've read about literary style... ever?
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Sacrificed the best regular season in sports so that 8-4 Big Ten teams can lose by 13. Awesome stuff.
They're saying Tom McCarthy has a tedious idée fixe. They're saying he's obsessed with repetition and recursiveness at the exclusion of pleasure. They're saying his wry intellectual games have grown stale. They're saying failed transcendece is no longer rich territory for a novel
Tom McCarthy’s latest novel, “The Rhyl Poster,” does, in some ways, resemble a legal thriller—sort of like a John Grisham paperback written by Georges Perec. Yet when you look closer, Max Callimanopulos writes, you’ll realize that the book is nearly identical to McCarthy’s last two novels. “It seemed designed to deflect any of the pleasures I associated with reading,” Callimanopulos continues. “The sentences, packed with jargon, beat me down with their elaborate banality.” For decades, McCarthy has subverted the conventions of the realist novel. Has he exhausted his set of themes, images, and preoccupations? Read more about the strange novel: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
They’re saying DC is the coolest city, that has never tried too hard to be cool, to ever exist. They’re saying other cities can’t compare to DC’s effortless cool.
DC pizza spot La Merna has an espresso martini that comes with a cigarette for an extra $3 (or a pack for $30).
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People apparently hate the “Carrie” remake, which isn’t half bad, except for one thing. In the film, Carrie’s house is a horrifying clapboard dungeon of clammy revivalist zealotry. In the new show, for no good reason, it’s like a tasteful well-lit Craftsman
I’m too old, with too many children, to develop a posture of enthusiasm for “Digger!” that contains the exact right proportions of irony and sincerity. However, I appreciate those of you who are trying.
I really think this goes against the spirit of bagels
Announcing Bagel-Bench: the definitive guide to NYC bagels.
Every Friday for the past 2 years, we’ve ordered bagels for the whole @ExtendHQ team. 1000s of bagels later, we’re publishing our findings:
S-tier: Apollo and Bagel & Schmear are SOTA, pushing the frontier on the taste × reliability Pareto curve. two of NYC’s leading applied bagel labs
A-tier: Brooklyn Bagel, NYC Bagel & Coffee House, and Murray’s are strong production-ready alternatives. The gap to the frontier is real, but we remain bullish.
B-tier: solid baselines, but we’d like to see more bagel R&D
C-tier: these shops have impressive distribution. We’d love to see that same investment in the core model
D-tier: significant work to do before we’d recommend consumption
like all benchmarks, this one is biased. unlike most benchmarks, we’re admitting it upfront.
what bagel should we eval next?
I can't advocate for policy initiatives but I would like my wife to find peace
It's October in Brooklyn and I'm still getting bitten by mosquitoes *though my clothes*
This is a quality of life issue @NYCMayor! If Trump can declare a war on mosquitoes in DC, surely we can do better!
Anyways, one earnest thought about having two young boys: You have to make time to exercise strenuously. It will be the easiest thing you do all day, you will be in a good mood, and you will harden your body against the barbarians.
Didn't know you were allowed to write a magazine story about having two boys and being tired. Crazy to think I've been giving that away for years for free on here.
"There is the ego death of becoming a parent (my child is now the most important thing in my life), and then there is the ego death of becoming the parent of two (I have not had a moment or thought of my own since dawn)."
Read as GQ's @zachbaron reports on the mind-altering chaos (and occasional brilliance) of life with two walking, talking young boys: gq.visitlink.me/zC-Xtp
