December 2011
43 posts
The Best CityReads of 2011 →
climateadaptation:
“Detroitism” Guernica John Patrick Leary January 2011
An examination of the increasing media attention on Detroit and its “ruins,” and how analyzing the city through pictures of its demise oversimplifies the dynamics underneath its transition.
“Mayor of Rust” The New York Times Magazine Sue Halpern February 11, 2011
A character study of the struggling town of...
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“When I’m at work on a story, I never compose paragraphically. I write...”
– oh, Gary Lutz. I love him, or his sentences, and his sad sad recurring themes, so much. But I also want to shake him. Stop putting your sentences in 26-point font, Gary. You deserve to be happy. (via meaghano)
From "Tape for the Turn of the Year," by A. R....
ecantwell:
I devour the sunlight off leaves, the sound out of jet engines, I devour the whistle out of the bird, bust his guts open and devour their churning: where is the source? I eat the wind, frilly as a nap, off the mossbeds: I get down &...
“But above all, as the department’s rallying around Leslie showed, it shares a...”
– James Poniewozik on my favorite show (at least until Doctor Who comes back next year and hopefully makes River Song less pathetic [I have a lot of feelings]) Parks and Recreation, and its ties to Friday Night Lights (which I have never seen [I know]) and Frank Capra (at the end of this episode I...
