“Humor can be dissected as a frog can,” E.B. White famously wrote, “but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” It’s from this quotation that Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today’s Top Comedy Writers, Mike Sacks’ 2014 collection of interviews with humorists, takes its […]
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We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance
For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.
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On Beauty: A Reading List About Makeup
Beauty criticism analyzes the ways we can subvert a society that would have us subsumed by self-loathing. We use the tools we’ve been given. Makeup, then, can be a weapon. And it can be damn fun.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
We Need to Talk About Money: Seven Stories About Personal Finance
For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.
Posted inReading List
The Romantic Comedy Spectrum: A Reading List
Here, I’ve collected a handful of stories centering on the creators and aficionados of the romantic comedy.
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The Ultimate Feel-Furious Movie About Wall Street
How director Adam McKay, best known for producing a series of “hugely popular bromantic comedies” with Will Ferrell, is making a comedy out of the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression.
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A Conversation With Ariel Levy About Writing a Memoir That Avoids ‘Invoking Emotional Tropes’
The New Yorker staff writer on her new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply.’
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The Romantic Comedy Spectrum: A Reading List
Here, I’ve collected a handful of stories centering on the creators and aficionados of the romantic comedy.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Romantic Comedy Spectrum: A Reading List
Here, are a handful of stories centering on the creators and aficionados of the romantic comedy.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Under-Recognized Books
We asked our contributors to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition in 2016. Here they are.
