Articles by Derek Teslik
November 26, 2010
Matt Taibbi’s Class Warfare is Truthy and Depressing 11
Griftopia portrays America as a ghetto being looted by evil drug lords, but a simpler explanation of the financial crisis, to me at least, seems to be the economics of laziness and arrogance.
February 6, 2008
On Garner’s Usage: In Praise of Exacting Prose 1
Derek Teslik is still in his 20s for 15 more days and lives in Washington, DC. A few weeks ago Max posted about the “rules of writing.” About a week later, Garth revisited David Foster Wallace’s essay “Up, Simba!” which was published in the 2005 essay collection Consider the Lobster. “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and [...]
December 16, 2006
A Year in Reading: Derek Teslik 0
My longtime friend and former roommate Derek Teslik is the guy who got me into blogging. He was once an avid blogger himself but has long since left the fold, and believe me, the blogging world is less for it. Luckily he has consented to send me a once yearly post from his undisclosed location: [...]
December 20, 2005
A Year in Reading: Winning the War on Christmas 0
My old friend Derek and I used to trade books back and forth in high school, and we spent many hours lurking in used book stores looking for collections of Richard Brautigan poetry and other such things. Several years later, we were roommates in Los Angeles, and one day he showed me his “blog.” I [...]
