A Del Posto pastry chef’s account of taking off work for a week, going on a mini-tour with his punk band in California, and all of the food he eats along the way.
2015
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A Charles D’Ambrosio Reading List
Recently, we published “This is Living,” an exclusive excerpt from Charles D’Ambrosio’s most recent essay collection, Loitering: New & Collected Essays (Tin House). Because we just can’t get enough D’Ambrosio, here’s a reading list featuring interviews old and new, another essay featured in Loitering (“Seattle, 1974”), and more. * * * 1. “Seattle, 1974” (Charles D’Ambrosio, Front […]
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Hotter Than Lava
Flashbangs—a $50 device that is not dissimilar to a military-style grenade— are used by cops across the country during raids, with little oversight and horrifying results.
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Can ‘Mad Maps’ Offer Patients a Way to Take Charge of Their Psychiatric Care?
Like advanced directives for the dying, DuBrul explained, mad maps allow psychiatric patients to outline what they’d like their care to look like in future mental health crises. The logic is: If a person can define health, while healthy, and differentiate health from crisis, that person can shape his or her own care. The maps […]
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A Meditation on Pain
“Once, when the pain came, I grabbed for a knife, my fist tight around it, contemplating digging out my right eye. I was twenty-one.”
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A Meditation on Pain
“Once, when the pain came, I grabbed for a knife, my fist tight around it, contemplating digging out my right eye. I was twenty-one.”
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The Power of Story
How storytelling affects our brains and the way we interact with one another.
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A Meditation on Pain
“I want to tell you about a headache. I want to tell you when someone says they are having a headache we never take it seriously.”
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
A first-person account of how mental illness reshapes a marriage.
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The Dark Arts: A Corporate Espionage Reading List
Here are five stories that delve deep into the murky world of corporate information gathering.