Yesterday, New York Magazine published an interview with the beleaguered social media celebrity Josh Ostrovsky, better known to millions of Instagram users as The Fat Jew. Since signing with the renowned talent agency CAA, Ostrovsky has […]
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Stop. Fucking. Buying. Shit. From. Amazon.
The Everything Store, Brad Stone’s sweeping account of Amazon’s rise from prescient concept to pervasive corporation, uses for its epigraph a quote from the company’s eccentric founder, Jeff Bezos. Originally delivered as a part of his […]
I Rewrote and Edited That Entire Miles Teller Profile, Because Esquire Very Obviously Didn’t
Earlier this week, Esquire published a profile of the actor Miles Teller, the star of this summer’s Fantastic Four and last year’s Oscar-nominated Whiplash. Running over 2000 words, the piece reads, at best, like a botched hatchet job executed […]
50 Simple Ways to Identify a Hillary Clinton Supporter
The prototypical Hillary Clinton supporter is a creature short on distinct physical characteristics but markedly long on quirks of personality. Her amorphous brand of neo-liberalism, essentially a repurposing of Rockefeller Republicanism for the supposedly left-leaning […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The End of the Tour
1. WHAT MOVIE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Financed by […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Purity
The first mention of birdwatching in Purity, the fifth novel from Jonathan Franzen, occurs less than five pages from the beginning, in a short aside about the title character’s mother. Then surprisingly, for nearly 500 pages, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth, whose first season finale aired two Sundays previous, on FOX, theoretically could be–and arguably should be–sued for false advertising, for the high concept bait-and-switch it perpetrates at its own expense. […]
My 2014-2015 NBA Playoff Predictions
In less than an hour, the Washington Wizards will tipoff against the Toronto Raptors in what will likely be the least interesting series in the very interesting 2014-2015 NBA Playoffs. Both teams, after playing consistently […]
The Strawberry Criterion: To Pimp A Butterfly
Musicians faced with great expectations have a tendency to disappear up their own asses. Either out of courage or cowardice, albums like Low, In Utero, Kid A and Yeezus consciously subvert the sound for which their predecessors won acclaim, garnering in those […]
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