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
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Missed Connections: A Brief History of Assassination Attempts
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Notable Sandwiches #101: Khao Jee Pâté
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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
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 #100: Kaisers Jagdproviant
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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
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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
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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...