November 2010
13 posts
NY Times: Pie is the new cupcake →
I can’t believe they don’t mention Pie Town, NM in this story!
Jonathan Safran Foer Talks Tree of Codes and... →
Perhaps this will help me get over how annoyed i was with Eating Animals. I do still love you, JSF.
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Save the Words! →
this is awesome.
Max Read: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire →
i love the ‘what i read’ series. this one is pretty great.
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Ferro Sets a New Course →
My piece on @KCRW GM Jennifer Ferro for this month’s AIRblast. #pubmedia
Ferro Sets a New Course KCRW cultivates new generation of independence By Laura Hertzfeld
The stairs leading down to KCRW–FM at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica California, are legendary. It’s become a rite of passage for some of the biggest names in music to shuffle down into the tiny studios to play a...
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Next week Yale University Press will publish a book called The Anthology of Rap...
– Listening To Rap For The First Time, With A Book Critic : The Record : NPR (via tballardbrown)
Leading Lady
vogue:
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Anderson Cooper pays tribute to his extraordinary mother.
Gloria Vanderbilt Photographed by Horst for Vogue, 1966
I don’t really know who the woman in this photograph is. She is my mom, of course, Gloria Vanderbilt—I recognize the face, the look in her eyes, the shape of her nose—but she has lived so many different lives, inhabited so many different worlds, that in this...
Dumbing Down the Vote? →
Yahoo’s new “Ask America” project is incredibly frustrating. Sure, you can leave a comment after you answer their setup, but political issues aren’t just yes or no questions. Y! News friends, please chime in here and help me understand.