All stories published by The Awl on July 25, 2011

All Stories published by The Awl on July 25, 2011

The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

Inside New York City’s “Cooling Centers”

by Jessica Machado

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

“House of Holes”: Mini-Excerpt #1

“May I ask who you are?” she asked politely.

Dave Bry in The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

Watch A Jumping Spider Dance To Impress A Prospective Mate And Name A Newly Discovered Species

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

How the Internet Mourns: “But What About the Kurds?”

The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

Ego Checks You May Encounter As A Blogger-Turned-Book-Writer

by Claire Zulkey

The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

Please Welcome….

by The Awl

The Awl is pleased to announce the hiring of John Shankman as publisher of The Awl, The Hairpin and Splitsider.

Shankman will begin next week. He is departing his position as account director at the Huffington Post. Prior, from 2007 to…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

Reporters Have Comic-Con Long-Hugging Competition

This is what happens when you’re forced to cover Comic-Con: you go a little haywire and engineer a long-hugging contest.

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

A Tale of Two Media Columnists

Outgoing Times executive editor Bill Keller’s Sunday magazine column (which this week, on the topic of how the potential prosecution of Rupert Murdoch is going to ruin things for the press in the rest of the world, is an appeal to probability inside a false dilemma inside an…

The Awl

Jul 25, 2011

19 Politicians Who Didn’t Return Their Donations from BP in 2011

by Abe Sauer

• John Barrasso

• Diane Black

• Mark Begich

July 22, 2011

July 26, 2011