Articles by Noah Deutsch
August 18, 2009
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Men World 3
Draper without a double life just wouldn’t be Draper.
July 17, 2009
Trope is the New Meme 2
A few years ago it felt like one could scarcely read a think-piece in any newspaper or magazine without coming across some mention of the word “meme.” Now it seems as though the new meme is the word “trope.” Trope is everywhere. One recent incarnation was in Peggy Noonan’s column about Sarah Palin in last [...]
July 10, 2009
From Wilco, With Love 11
For this latest record, Tweedy seems ready to accentuate the positive, even if that old bleak outlook does occasionally cloud over the proceedings.
June 22, 2009
Evan Wright’s America: Hella Real, Hella Harsh 1
There’s a scene early on in the mini-series version of Generation Kill in which Lee Tergesen, the actor who plays Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright, wins over the Marines from 1st Recon Battalion with whom he is embedded. Recon is the eyes and ears of Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the forwardmost units to [...]
March 20, 2008
HEADLINE BOOK PROMPTS POST POST! 5
To the panoply of guilty pleasures this world has to offer, I humbly add the New York Post. I’m a Daily News man myself, but really, stuck inside a stalled subway car somewhere under the East River with nothing to read but those creepy Dr. Z acne treatment ads, who cares which paper turns up [...]
