by Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins
Did you catch the piece on writer/director/neck-lamenter Nora Ephron in this week’s New Yorker? It’s got some funny bits and nice moments, but there’s really nothing earth-shattering or new in it. And yet? I read the entire thing, a rarity for me. Which leads me to the conclusion…
Thank God the future of print journalism lies in local newspapers. Otherwise we might miss this kind of gripping reportage: “And like Sandra Lee, June brides are more determined than ever to make their weddings…
I saw one of these bus ads on my way over to the Awl offices this morning, and I have…
by Rod Townsend
INT. OMAR’S APARTMENT (at 108 Fifth Avenue)
OMAR Okay. So, um … Mark and Greg? Cory, Kelli, and Jill. [MARK and GREG retrieve their clothing on the floor outside the bathroom. They look…
Ooh, here is a good place to start understanding how the AIG Financial Products group tried to destroy the world. It is geared for slow people such as myself! Yay!
Oh here is a new profit model for newspapers! It is selling private parties at the home of the publisher of the Washington Post to lobbyists. Oh neat, the coal and healthcare people can pay $25 grand for dinner with reporters and Obama administration officials. How is this not a bad idea?!
By “mutual decision,” publisher Sentinel (an imprint of Penguin) and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford have decided not to publish Sanford’s book on fiscal conservatism. The decision was made after editors at Sentinel read the…
Oh this is so wonderful, this profile of Michael Wolff by Irin Carmon. She really is very good. It is obviously a portrait of a person with a near-disability, a man who must argue about things and make up his mind about things…
You are probably unaware that workers at the Stella D’Oro Biscuit factory in the Bronx have been on strike since August, when the private equity firm that purchased the company in 2006 refused to bargain with their union on a new contract. Yesterday, an…
Forbes takes its traffic-whoring creation of galleries based on arbitrary and manipulable metrics to new heights today, with the 2009 list of Hollywood’s top-earning actresses. Shockingly, it’s a battle between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston! Just like in the tabloids! Nice work, fellas!
“You can almost see a child in front of the exhibit, gyrating, trying to mimic the seal and saying, ‘Well this is pretty cool. Then they go home and they may roll around in the backyard and then they may start to, you know … run.” Paul Boyle…
A good friend of mine is moving to Japan next month and now I’m a little afraid for her.
