The late James Salter’s last piece for the New York Review of Books, on David McCullough’s Wright brothers biography.
2015
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Joyce Maynard on Taking James Patterson’s Online Course in Writing Bestsellers
Lately, just about every time I turn to Facebook or Twitter, I’m greeted by an ad or sponsored content about the online writing course bestselling thriller author James Patterson offers on the MasterClass site (where Dustin Hoffman, Annie Liebovitz, Usher, Serena Williams and others serve up the tricks to their trades, too). “Set out to […]
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Inside the Secret World of Trader Joe’s
From the archives: Beth Kowitt goes deep into the notoriously close-lipped world of Trader Joe’s.
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What is Sista Grrrl’s Riot? Punk Music, Collaboration and Revolution
Tamar-kali Brown, Maya Glick, Simi Stone, and Honeychild Coleman founded Sista Grrrl Riots, an alternative safe space for black women punks to rock out and revolutionize.
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Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’
Julian Barnes on Vincent van Gogh, and the difficulties of seeing his well-known work with fresh eyes.
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Living In The Disneyland Version Of Startup Life
It’s becoming increasingly possible to live where you work. Tiki looks at the rise of “co-living” spaces springing up in cities all over the U.S.
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My Undertaker, My Pimp
Jay Kirk examines the intersection of grief and lust in this profile of a disgraced undertaker-turned-brothel-owner.
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On DJ Kool Herc and a Seminal Moment in Hip-Hop History
Journalist Jeff Chang’s 2005 book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop offers a history of hip-hop culture, and he’s particularly good at capturing the 1970s Bronx neighborhood party scene that helped start it all, with a young Jamaican-born DJ named Clive Campbell—who moved to the Bronx with his family as a child and soon started hosting parties as […]