“If you asked me what my central grievance with my mother was, I would tell you that I had a hard time not seeing her as a fraud.”
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The Old Music Industry: ‘A System Specifically Engineered to Waste the Band’s Money’
During the 90s there was something of an arms race to see who could write the biggest deal. That is, the deal with the most money being spent on the band’s behalf. In a singularly painless contest the money would either be paid to the band as a royalty, which would take that money out […]
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When Dave Chappelle Met Rob Ford
I was like, “Is the mayor in? Could you tell him Dave Chappelle is here to see him?”
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Meet the Woman Who Protects Drake’s Voice
What it means to be a vocal coach.
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Serial Podcast and the Ethical Questions of Narrative Journalism
Stephanie Van Schilt on our obsession with Serial and the tricky questions of storytelling in nonfiction.
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François Truffaut on an Aging Joan Crawford
As she neared fifty, determined to keep going, she became almost grotesque, answering her own needs and the wiles of directors eager to exploit her. In Nicholas Ray’s odd, beautiful, impassioned Western “Johnny Guitar” (1954), she’s Vienna, a tough businesswoman who runs a saloon and constantly faces down groups of armed men. Vienna is both an […]
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Mortal Enemy, Immortal Ally: How Writers Measure Time
Time carried back to the future, once again seen and understood as it was in antiquity, not only as mortal enemy but also as immortal ally. The counterrevolution against the autocratic regime of uniform, global time (commercially and politically imperialist) was pressed forward by many of the artists and writers of Einstein’s generation unwilling to […]
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What It’s Like to Burn Out of a Dream Job
“Burnout happens when you’ve been experiencing chronic stress for so long that your body and your emotional system have begun to shut down and are operating in survival mode.”
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Defining ‘Rurbanista’ as a Lifestyle Brand
Modern Farmer appeared in the spring of 2013. After three issues, it won a National Magazine Award; no other magazine had ever won so quickly. According to Gardner, though, Modern Farmer is less a magazine than an emblem of “an international life-style brand.” This is the life style of people who want to “eat food with a better […]