Quick Hits
September 28, 2010
T-Shirts I Have Known 4
by Jacob Lambert
Remembering vanished shirts is a somewhat wistful thing. Each one means so much, yet each will disappear.
September 23, 2010
Stockholm Syndrome: Two Books on High Finance 3
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Dennis Hopper is the neoliberal consensus, the crazy person waving the Glock around is the financial industry, the bullet is a two trillion dollars in losses, and the poor hostage being jerked hither and yon is you and me.
September 15, 2010
Never Let You Go: Friendship in the Facebook Age 15
by Kevin Hartnett
Is it better to let a friendship end naturally or to sustain it on Facebook life support?
September 13, 2010
The Book as Cross-Town Bus: The Pleasures of Hometown Reading 0
by Jacob Lambert
Reading about one’s hometown doesn’t transport so much as extend, enlarging our maps with each page. Whether in comics, films, or novels, this verisimilitude is a gift—recognition that you actually exist.
September 2, 2010
File Under: Self-Realization in Women 1
by Anne K. Yoder
Elizabeth Gilbert speaks to fantasies, specifically the 21st century American variety of jet-set enlightenment.
August 27, 2010
Again, I Ask: Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray? 12
by Jacob Lambert
The next time you’re in the supermarket, inspect a box of Alpha-Bits. What you’ll find in that milk-splashed bowl will shake you to your core.
