December 2010
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sethcolterwalls:
“Dancing On My Own (Solo...
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Magazines Are At War With Their Own iPad Apps
So while novelty purchase rates for magazines on the iPad have dropped off crazily, because people checked it out and are either unenthused or distracted or whatever, no telling the motivation, what’s also happening is that print subscription rates (and the print-side ad people) are totally undercutting iPad subscription initiatives. The rates I get for print subscriptions are INSANE. So...
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: It Is Finished. ... →
lazybookreviews:
Shall we meet back here again next year, same time same place? Less melodramatically than “An Affair To Remember,” perhaps?
I want everyone to benefit from these painstakingly mulled-over lists, so please forward to loved ones and say BUY ME THE ONES IN BOLD, or something.
Now,…
The competition on this is going to be insane. Insane like having your hand shoved into a...
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Some Thoughts on Class and Reading Job...
• Only 27.5% of Americans over 25 have a BA degree or more.
• “Students from the highest income families are almost eight times as likely as those from the lowest income families to earn a bachelor’s degree by age 24.” *
• 70.1% of all 2009 high school graduates were enrolled in college that fall. (About 6 in 10 of those were enrolled in four-year colleges.) Only 59.3% of Hispanic...
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Wanna come work at The Awl? →
placesweusedtogo:
I’m great at hatching fun schemes, as all my references will attest to, but terrible at representing myself and my company professionally. Wanna call it even and just close up the position now?
Of course me and Alex are both attracted to the type of people who are irrepressibly unprofessional. I mean, HELLO OBVS. Rules, like teeth, are made to be broken.
Who would start something like this and not post... →
Seriously now. *taps foot*
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Five Longreads from 2010: Boundary Issues
In honor of the Longreads year-end fiesta of Things That People Have Read That Are Considered Long (And Also Worthy) from 2010, herewith, five things that stuck with me.
But first, a note about what was excluded. For starters, a number of things from The Awl, which were of course my ultimate favorites. (I won’t name names, because I love everyone who writes for us equally but also in a...
