“The avalanche of broken relationships within this baseball community at Fort Myers High . . . served as a microcosm for a polarized country.”
Peter Rubin
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Auto Show Dispatch
“Today, cars are better than they have ever been—and, not unrelatedly, more similar to one another.”
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The Life and Death of Hollywood
“Film and television writers face an existential threat.”
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Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
“Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas.”
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Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
“The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.”
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There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
“Above all else, Morrison’s rejection letters focus on craft—that is, on the experience of reading a work under review.”
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With Melville in Pittsfield
“The true believers were nowhere in sight on that snowy morning.”
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Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive?
“I read all the books and tried all the hacks in a mad quest to optimize my time.”
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Fire. Dog. Life. Ice
“The thing that always haunted me about explorers was that when they left, they never knew if they were coming back.”