December 2011
3 posts
love this interview with Hairpin editor Edith...
Very good instincts. So what was the very first meeting like with Choire and Alex? I didn’t meet with them until the whole thing was set in stone. It was mostly [former Awl publisher] David Cho I was dealing with. I was friends with Alex from before, and I was email friends with Choire. And then it got started, and then finally I did have a sit-down with Alex about the site, because I...
Maria Popova on her reading & writing routine
MJ: Do you get tired? How do you push yourself to sustain your routine on a bad day?
MP: Hah! Beats me! I just do it. That’s how I am. I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they’re able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with...
Rebecca Traister on Obama and Paternalism
Today also isn’t the first time he’s used references to members of his family to make a larger offensive point about women. Back in 2009, when charges that his officially female-friendly administration included some boys’ club tendencies hit the front of the New York Times, Obama dismissed the claims as “bunk.” Reporter Mark Leibovich noted at the time that the president “often points out...