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From the monthly archives: August 2011

Any Gay Talese video will make you want to be a better person

On August 29, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Reviewed: “The Call” by Yannick Murphy

On August 29, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Morning Bites: Murakami excerpt, Rudy Wurlitzer, Maus, John Locke, Wild Flag, tennis, and more

On August 29, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Sunday Stories: “Divus Iulius”

On August 28, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Indexing: Michael Kimball, Ben Marcus, Caryn Rose, Rimbaud, and more

On August 27, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

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Afternoon Bites: Dylan Thomas boathouse, Ben Greenman’s hurricane graph, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and more

On August 26, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Every single time I pass the White Horse Saloon in the West Village, I always say to myself, “That’s where Dylan Thomas drank 200 shots of hooch and died. Maybe I should hang out there.” Then I walk in, and it’s filled with frat dudes drinking sugar free Red Bull and vodkas, talking about how “sick” Jeter’s new car commercial looks. I’m tired of that being the building that makes me think of Mr. Thomas, and I’m glad Writers Houses posted pictures of his boathouse in the UK, so I can now at least mentally conjure [...]
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What would Jeeves do? (Answer: A radio show for the Nazis)

On August 26, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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I’m normally the first guy to come charging out of the foxhole when somebody is accused of being an anti-Semite (example: my article today on the IKEA founder’s ties to the Nazis), but I’m going to have to go with my gut and say that PG Wodehouse was not a Nazi stooge. Even though he did radio shows for them during the second world war, I’d be pretty willing to bet that if a bunch of people with guns told me to do a radio show about my life as an [...]
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Morning Bites: Rum Diary preview, The Recipe Project, John Minichillo, Springsteen Suicide, and more

On August 26, 2011 By Jason Diamond

We’re pretty excited to see Johnny Depp (who never seems to age) in another Hunter S. Thompson role. So the preview for the The Rum Diary obviously makes us very happy.
The Recipe Project, the cookbook put together by One Ring Zero, which features uber-chefs like Mario Batali, David Chang, and Isa Chandra Moskowitz, gets a writeup at Huff. Po. About five seconds after reading it, we got really hungry. Too bad we’re probably only going to be eating beans from straight out of the can after Hurricane Irene knocks us back into the dark [...]
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