November 2011
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October 2011
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Grantland: Coming Soon!
Here’s a sneak peek at the new Grantland Quarterly, which I had the pleasure of working on a few weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing this thing in print!
Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney’s and Bill Simmons’s new web magazine Grantland. It will feature the best sports writing from the website, delivered in a full-color book featuring original artwork and a host...
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Make it a pony.
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My Generation
This article says it all: “The worst thing is that I’ve always gotten self-worth from performance, especially good grades. But now that I can’t get a job, I feel worthless,” she says. Lael, who is 27, was the valedictorian of her high school and did very well in college too. Unable to find a position that paid a decent wage using her English degree, she got a master’s at the University of...
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What I'm reading
Rose hadn’t liked the sound the aircraft made as it tore through the sky, and it must have made her breathe heavily because the man in the next seat kept urging her to relax and take hold of his hand. All her life people had been telling her what to do, even strangers, which was curious. He was quite a nice man, in spite of him confiding that his wife had bad breath, so she did as he...
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Eric Anderson Illustrations
Eric Anderson illustrates Wes Anderson’s movies. From It’s Nice That.
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Boat Magazine
I reviewed Boat Magazine over at The Rumpus. This may be the coolest magazine I’ve ever encountered. Check out the review for full details, but in a nutshell, the design shop (Boat Studio) who makes the mag packs up and moves into a new city twice a year to put together the magazine. Each issue is focused on a “forgotten” city, places that have fallen off the map in one way or...
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What I'm reading
Some people dream of being chased by Bigfoot. I found it hard to believe at first, but it’s true. I was driving home back from Los Angeles in August, after a summer of waiting tables and failed casting calls, when I saw a wooden arrow that pointed down a dirt road, “actors wanted” painted across it in white letters. I was in Northern California and still a long way from...
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Justin Torres Interview
I interviewed Justin Torres over at The Rumpus. Check it out: here. I really enjoyed talking with him, and We the Animals is one of the best things I’ve read lately.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them...”
– Steve Jobs
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Grantland Quarterly
I’ve been helping out with the design on Grantland Quarterly, and it’s a cool project. I was skeptical at first because I think Grantland’s writing is really uneven, and I’m not sure that it really works in print. But, as it turns out, the long-form essays are pretty amazing in print and with McSweeney’s guiding the design, it looks beautiful. It gives me a lot of...
