“My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors…In my family, love was the slow accumulation of moments in which I was not subjected to great harm.”
2018
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Sex and Hotels
Slate has done us all a solid by bringing Geoff Dyer’s classic Nerve essay back to the internet, which examines why sex in hotel rooms is so much sexier than in other locations.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Reading List
A Thereness Beneath the Thereness: A Jonathan Gold Reading List
Until his passing in late July, Jonathan Gold celebrated food for decades in publications such as LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times.
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A Woman’s Work: The Art of the Day Job
In the second installment of her illustrated essay series, Carolita Johnson looks back on the many ways she’s tried to juggle work with her *work.*
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Go, L’il Birb! The First Plover in Los Angeles in 70 Years
Can humans coexist on the beaches of Santa Monica along with wildlife? A beach “rewilding” project aims to find out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Queer Eye Is an Upbeat Documentary of a Failing Social Order
How a hard-not-to-love show glosses over the powers that produced its makeover subjects.
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Groomed to Death
Grooming beaches to rid them of the tons of trash that careless humans leave behind is a necessary evil — but one that compromises habitat for sand fleas who subsist on kelp, which also feeds flies, which feed shorebirds like plovers and killdeer, and so on and so on. By making beaches too clean, we’re […]
Posted inBusiness, Food, Highlight, Quotes
The Unbearable Blandness of Water
Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.
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American Beauties
“The life of a plastic bag is really an endless series of entanglements.”
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Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Meticulous reporting from Ronan Farrow on allegations from six women who say they experienced unwanted sexual advances from Les Moonves, the chairman and C.E.O. of CBS Corporation. In addition, 30 current and former CBS employees described experiences of “harassment, gender discrimination, or retaliation at the network.”