The anxiety of the summer reading list
Mark Krotov
Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »
Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »
Topics discussed: death, On Kawara, bouncy castles, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck, Slate, disruption, #disruption, e-books, Barnes & Noble, ideology, Matt Yglesias, Uber, martinis, dens, tweed, candelight, Mumford and Sons, Periscope,… Read more »
The latest innovation merging literary and food-related technologies is here, and unlike novelty items we’ve discussed on on MobyLives in the past (like the edible lasagna book and the fun-with… Read more »
Nicholas Lund argued in Slate this week that Amazon’s new drone program has underestimated its most powerful competitors. He’s not talking about publishers and collusion: he’s talking about birds and… Read more »
Everybody is talking about how much online writers get paid these days, but my favorite post on the topic comes from Slate’s Dan Kois who shares his subjective system for… Read more »
Earlier this week, Slate’s Lexicon Valley podcast examined the question of writers’ individual style and whether they are distinctive enough to be recognized. Intuition tells us that they should be, at… 2 / Read more »
How wonderful to be reminded of John Leonard’s rules for criticism in the debut issue of “The Slate Book Review.” There Troy Patterson reviews Leonard’s posthumous collection of essays, Reading for… Read more »