Neil Gaiman Writes a Final ‘Love Letter to Batman’

“The joy of this Batman story is that there were 70 years of Batman and I wanted to try and talk about all of it. “

Source: Wired
Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,809 words)

Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Source: Washington Post
Published: Apr 22, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,195 words)

Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw

Helen Gurley Brown, the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” (1962) and for three decades the editor of Cosmopolitan, was born in Green Forest, Ark., a tiny town in the Ozark Mountains. Her father died when she was 10; her sister had polio; her family was “hillbilly,” she wrote, and poor. Once she got out, she looked back only by force of will. She liked to quote a line from Carson McCullers: “I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.”

Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,125 words)

People Like Me

(Fiction) “Lanie’s at her brother’s. She wants me to go to anger management.”

Published: May 1, 2009
Length: 35 minutes (8,943 words)

The girl in the window

Source: Tampa Bay Times
Published: Jul 31, 2008
Length: 26 minutes (6,612 words)

The Humbug

Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 27, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,945 words)

Bill Moyers Talks Drugs, Crime, Journalism and Democracy with Creator of ‘The Wire’

HBO’s critically-acclaimed “The Wire” creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.

Source: Alternet
Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,828 words)

Rich People Things

My ill-starred tenure at New York magazine was, among other things, a crash course in the staggering unselfawareness of Manhattan class privilege. Sure, there was the magazine’s adoring, casual fascination with the “money culture”-a term deployed in editorial meetings without the faintest whiff of disapproval or critical distance. But more than that, there was the sashaying mood of preppy smugness that permeated nearly every interaction among the magazine’s editorial directorate—as when one majordomo tried to make awkward small talk with me by asking what it was like attending an urban public high school, or when another scion of the power elite would blithely take the credit for other people’s work and comically strategize to be seated prominently at the National Magazine Awards luncheon.

Source: The Awl
Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,848 words)

Obama’s Frenemies

As debate erupts on the Web over Obama’s visit with Chavez—was it an embrace or a blowoff?—Matthew Yglesias says that everyone’s missing the point.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,046 words)

Picking Letters, 10 a Day, That Reach Obama

Tens of thousands of letters, e-mail messages and faxes arrive at the White House every day. A few hundred are culled and end up each weekday afternoon on a round wooden table in the office of Mr. Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence.

Published: Apr 19, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,020 words)