Notable Sandwiches #105: Lampredotto
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which my editor, David Swanson, and I track our prey through the underbrush that is Wikipedia’s List of...
On the Late, Great Hannibal Lecter
Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Donald Trump as Hannibal Lecter About a year ago, Donald Trump started referencing Hannibal Lecter in his...
Lords of the Rings
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #104: Kumru
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, plunge into the strange waters of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
TLDS July Culture Klatch
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Notable Sandwiches #103: Kottenbutter
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
You Cannot Predict the Future
I thought Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. I really did. And I wasn’t alone. Most of us did, including the people paid to predict such things. I was...
“I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party as your President.”
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #102: Kokoretsi/Kokoreç
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
Missed Connections: A Brief History of Assassination Attempts
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Notable Sandwiches #101: Khao Jee Pâté
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Feeding My Graphomania
“Il Pleut” by Apollinaire, 1916 I have a half-baked, non-scientific theory about how writing works—not for everyone, of course, just my writing, the thing...
Chefs & Grub & Rock & Roll
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
A Look Back at 100 Notable Sandwiches
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where Talia and I wade through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
On the Gastronomy of Eating the Rich
Two years before I started a column about the cross-pollination between food and politics, I wrote for GQ about the origins and literal interpretations of...
Drinking the Kool-Aid
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwich Heat Wave Special: In Praise of Cold Soup
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A Note From Your Temporary Substitute Internet Dad
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Notable Sandwiches #100: Kaisers Jagdproviant
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults, Part 2: Follow the Leader
Jim Jones preaching at the Peoples Temple What’s the loneliest you’ve ever felt? The most scared? The most despairing? Was it a period of depression, or...
Hollywood: The Oral Histories
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #99: Kabuli Burger
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults: Let's Talk About Sects
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #98: Katsu Sando
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
On Cults, Part 1
This week, Donald Trump led a rally in my city. In the South Bronx, to be precise—it was a frenzied affair, the crowd reflecting a diversity that, if not...
TLDS May Culture Klatch
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Notable Sandwiches #97: Jucy Lucy
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
Supreme Injustices
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #96: Jibarito
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Small Vices
I’m lucky enough to have a tiny garden in the middle of New York City, where space is at a premium and outdoor space even more so. It’s a patch of concrete...
Tales of the Fantastic
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Notable Sandwich Tribute to Steve Albini
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I stumble our way through the strange and mutable document that is...
The Tempest: Stormy Daniels Revisited
Inspired by the testimony of Stormy Daniels in court today, we’re re-publishing a pair of stories that Talia wrote for the Village Voice six years ago, when...
Culture Club: Grab Bag
Welcome back my own most beautiful darlings! I want to thank you for being paid subscribers—you’re helping me keep the lights on and keep doing what I love...
Notable Sandwiches #95: Jesuita
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I and my longsuffering editor David Swanson stumble our way through the strange and mutable document...
History Repeats Itself at Columbia
By David Swanson Columbia’s Low Memorial Library in 1968, and in 2024 Last night, as a group of activists took over Hamilton Hall just hours after Columbia...
TLDS Culture Klatch
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Notable Sandwiches Passover Edition: The Hillel
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Ten Poems for April
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Notable Sandwiches #94: Jambon-Beurre
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Announcing my new book, WILD FAITH!
Howdy y’all, I want to personally thank every subscriber to this newsletter (picture me giving you a very light kiss on the cheek in the European fashion)...
Time is a Flat Circle: True Detective, 10 Years Later
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #93: Jam
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I stumble our way through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #92: Italian
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...
A Messiah Anointed with Snake Oil
It’s 2024, and we are all living in a world created by dead televangelists. Those big men with their waxen faces, made up for klieg lights—the Jerry...
100 Years in Babylon: An Archival History of Los Angeles
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwich #91: Italian Beef
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Full Windsor
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #90: Indian Taco
By Sara Calvosa Olson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily...