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A Tetw reading list
Ever wonder where all the money went?? Matt Taibbi knows…
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A Tetw reading list
The best writing about death and the effect it has on our lives.
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20 great articles, all free to read online
A huge collection of amazing articles by one of the world’s best journalists, and a brilliant teller of true stories.
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The Complete Essays
The ultimate David Foster Wallace nonfiction collection, including links to every essay available online.
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by David Foster Wallace
The Nature of the Fun - “A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it’ll get: the writer’s complete attention. (HT @brainpicker)
Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young - “The honeymoon’s end between the literary Establishment and the contemporary young writer was an inevitable and foreseeable consequence of the same shameless hype that led to many journeyman writers’ premature elevation in the first place…”
E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction - “Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving, they start lurking, and stare. They are born watchers.”
For our complete collection of over 20 oustanding essays by the late great David Foster Wallace, click here.
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A Political Notebook reading list
A few weeks ago, we posted a list of great articles about war. Here’s what The Political Notebook had to say about it:
While TETW’s list includes some great articles, they were all written by men. Not only have women written about war, but they’ve done it well — here are some possible additions to the list by women:
- The Predator War by Jane Mayer.
- Crossfire in Kandahar by Vanessa M. Gezari.
- Bystanders to Genocide by Samantha Power.
- Girls at War by Elizabeth Rubin.
- The Invisible Army by Sarah Stillman.
- What I Lost in Libya by Clare Morgana Gillis.
- The Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Effexor, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Restoril, Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ambien, Lunesta, Elavil, Trazodone War by Jennifer Senior.
- I Can Find an Indicted War Criminal. So Why Isn’t He in the Hague? by Mac McClelland
- A Chance in Hell (4 pt series) by Corinne Reilly
- Tuesdays with Saddam by Lisa Depaulo.
- Adrift but Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.
- High Explosive for Everyone by Martha Gellhorn.
Massive thanks to The Political Notebook for taking the time to address just one of our many shortcomings. If anybody else has a bone to pick, we’d love to hear from you.
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A retired NSA analyst has spent several sleepless nights applying a simple formula to past election results across Arizona. His results showed…
Extremely interesting!
The Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness Book
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ThinkProgress misattributed my “Cavalrymen for Romney” site to the Obama Campaign, and now there’s a lot of conspiracy theorists on Twitter including Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor at The Atlantic, who think the site suggests that Obama planned that line.
For the record, this site had nothing to do with the Obama campaign. I voluntarily linked it to the President’s website, because that’s a good resource for learning about his policies.
I definitely made the site quickly, but I didn’t have any advance knowledge of what would happen in the debate. When I heard Obama’s line about horses and bayonets, I thought about how funny those things would be as special interests (big horse), and that gave me the idea for the site. Once I had the idea, it only took me about ten minutes to launch it, and it was online well before the debate was over.
Here’s how I did it:
- I grabbed the first big Google Image search result for “cavalry” that was on a white background
- I copy/pasted the Romney logo onto his pike and mocked up the “learn more” button
- I exported my images and coded the site by hand in HTML and CSS… my TextExpander snippets let me assemble a site like that very, very quickly
- To eliminate domain name propagation time, I purchased the domain from my registrar (Gandi.net) and set it to redirect with a mask to a subdomain on my site
