We Are Broke And We Like Monsters
A trend piece about trend pieces.
We can all agree that the strange ocean noises are ancient creatures, older than time itself, waiting beneath the waters for some unknown purpose, only occasionally stirring. The sonic booms are the military experimenting with reverse engineered alien technology.
New York didn’t have a flood Friday. Or even much of a flood Saturday and Sunday.
Arno Schmidt: Ernste Literatur Leviathan
Schmidt was more of an individualist — he was a solipsistic pessimist who described his ideal world as the earth after an anthropogenic apocalypse. He was an atheist. But he also maintained that the world was created by a monster named Leviathan that humans could and should overthrow if it ever becomes necessary.
If we’re past the point of no return, then let’s go down in style.
Modeled after The Awl, The Classical aims to establish “a running, wide-ranging conversation between us and our readers about baseball, basketball, soccer, football and fighting, and about things that aren’t sports, too.”
Everyone Hates a Preachy Vegan
Unfortunately, I recently realized I’ve become the books-equivalent of this terrible type of person – all someone has to do is bring up how much they are enjoying their new Kindle and I jump down their throat about “mafia-style business tactics” and “selling books at a loss and forcing publishers and writers to eat part of the loss.” It’s becoming incredibly unattractive.
Hip-Hop’s greatest impersonator reviews Watch the Throne.
I hate when i daydream while im reading, and then i have to re-read
Earlier this week, a Reddit user pointed out that the “I Hate Reading” Facebook page has 438,700 “likes”. Appalled, Galleycat conducted further research and found that the “I Hate Books” page has 271,471 “likes”. The universal response? NOOOOOOOOO!
All this talk about money and publishing made me wonder, “What about the people at the bottom? What about the interns? How much do they make?”