An Agoraphobe in Paris
Hi all, Many thanks to my favorite editor and not incidentally damn good writer David Swanson for pinch-hitting last week, as I was off … in Paris of all...
Among the Thugs
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Notable Sandwich #64: Fischbrötchen
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series where Talia and I trip merrily through the ever-evolving document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches in...
Whitman and Baldwin and Ginsberg, Oh My
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Notable Sandwiches #63: Falafel
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which my editor David Swanson and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s...
There Comes a Time for Boycotts
An Irish National Land League rally, January, 1881 On Sunday, September 19, 1880, in the town of Ennis, County Clare, the Irish politician Charles Stewart...
Tears Amid the Alien Corn
Today is the start of Memorial Day weekend for America, a time of cookouts and car sales and patriotic flag-waving. But at the moment, in the nation-within-...
Poetic Mixtape
Artist’s book from the Orphist movement, art by Sonia Delaunay and poem by Blaise Cendrars, 1913 Every once in awhile—especially after writing too much—I...
The Ultimate Guide to Back Issues
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Notable Sandwiches #63: Egg
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which my editor David Swanson and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s...
On the Naked State of Madness
there’s been a kind of fug of bloodthirst in the air lately—you can feel it—the way people are lined up behind a subway strangler, calling him a superhero,...
Open World
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Notable Sandwiches #62: The Elvis
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A Country Devouring its Children
This past weekend, a gun-man opened fire at a mall in Allen, Texas, killing eight, including three children. Due to Talia dealing with illness—and rather...
Battle Dad
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Notable Sandwich #61: Dyrlægens Natmad
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I trip merrily through the ever-evolving document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches...
Strike! Strike! Writer's Strike!
The Writer’s Guild of America is on strike. Author’s note: Hello ladies, gents and gentlethems! After the past week’s much-needed breather I am back on the...
Stray thoughts/hiatus
Hi all, Just a notice to say we’re off til next Tuesday, at which point we’ll surge back, cresting a wave of no doubt brilliant newsletters emerging from my...
Brain Storms: The Best Books on Madness
Edinburgh, 1920 “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, For I had lost the right path.”— Dante From time immemorial, man’s...
Notable Sandwiches #60: Doughnut
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the ever-evolving document that is Wikipedia’s...