The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Two Clocks, Running Down
In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.
Posted inNonfiction, The Atavist Magazine, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Chris Outcalt, Corie Brown, Daniel Immerwahr, Toniann Fernandez, and Karen Abbott.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle
The beach-bum version of Jimmy Buffett has become a huge brand® with financial interests in foodstuffs, hotels, casinos, and even adult living communities. Buffett is the original escapist who has long escaped his original slacker identity. A businessman wrapped in a Hawaiian shirt, he’s worth more money than Bruce Springsteen. (Not bad for a guy […]
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
The New Scabs: Stars Who Cross the Picket Line
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Jimmy Buffet® Incorporated
Jimmy Buffett is a master at marketing his beach bum lifestyle to the T.G.I.F crowd.
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Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion
Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Brian Wilson’s Adult/Child
Music from the time after the good vibrations ended.
Posted inNonfiction
Records on Bone
One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
