Apt. 11D

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Awesome twitter snark (a real artform) about Hillary's announcement that she's pro-gay marriage. 

My latest radio interview on Media Matters.   Download Laura McKenna. 

Yay. The New York Times has a special museum section this week. Check out the article and slide show about photography exhibits. 

Fantastic article about working-class men in the new economy. 

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I rarely blog on the weekend, but I'm compulsively writing at the moment and I need a blogging break. Here are some articles that have crossed my path this morning:

Is There Life After Work?

The Professor and the Bikini Model

Slaughter reviews Sandberg

Klein talks about how expert bloggers revolutionized journalism. Yes. 

Wow. I'm in the midst of writing something very similar to this post by Penelope Trunk. I'm glad that I sent out the pitch before I read her post. 

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Whenever someone tells me that I absolutely MUST go on a cruise, I'll refer to this. 

A friendly chat with a rich person. What do you think? 

The real trouble with Jonah Lehrer.

Game of Thrones valentines. 

 

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January blahs? Good golly, yes. Grey skies are staring at me from the windows that surround my desk. I need to pull myself together and get to work.  A quick scan of the morning's headlines. 

A new study indicates that small, wealthy colleges aren't educating kids better than larger, public schools. 

Can decor save a marriage? 

I'm fascinated by the rising price of art. 

 

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I didn't spend a lot of time writing today. I had to recover from a particularly horrible special education meeting on Tuesday. Lunch with my sister and lots of lazy reading on the sofa happened. I have a quick window of time before I have to figure out dinner and get Jonah ready for a band concert. Some links for the lazy reading afternoon:

Did Clinton close the book on Bengazi?

A terrible account of being cyber-stalked. The good news is that it leads to a book deal. 

The close relationship between an editor and the writer. 

Bill and Hillary are looking for a home on the Hamptons. Didn't anyone tell them that the Hamptons are out, and the Catskills are in? 

An American Girl doll's life in a New York City library. 

How to deal with a mansplainer in Hillary .GIFs. 

Glad that more attention is going to improving the four year college graduation rate. 

The first editorial that I've ever read that discussed public pooping. 

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I really do need to read George Saunders. Adrian Chen at Gawker demands that he writes a novel already. 

If you squint, this infographic looks like a New York skyline. 

You are going to die. 

A history of Vogue's Tone Deaf Editorials. 

Now colleges are producing too many elementary school teachers, too. What next? Do we have too many philsophers?

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I'm getting back to the computer and furious reading of articles, after a weekend of carrying for a sick husband and the usual kid wrangling. As I'm catching up, I'm going to post links to the shiny things that catch my eye. 

I've been a huge fan of Jenna Lyons, the creative director for J. Crew, for ages. A few years ago, Domino had a great spread on her Brooklyn brownstone. You can see many of the people here. 

How do the middle class live in Manhattan? It's very tough. Most of us decamped to the suburbs ages ago. 

There is something so depressing about an Obama who have given up on making big changes. Is DC too big and calcified to do its job? 

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Dartmouth stops accepting AP credits. (good)

Being married helps professors get ahead, but only if they are male. 

Is Lindsay Lohan really a high paid escort now? Trés juicy! 

 

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Survived. Sigh. oKAY, so what's going on in the news? 

There's that nonsense in Congress. I'm not sure what to say about it about it, other than I think that if elections were held today, 535 elected officials would be submitting their resumes with McDonald's. 

The ugly business about gang rapes in India. 

And Hugh Hefner got married again. 

(I'm limping back to work today. Still not quite done.) 

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Deb Perelman, the blogger at the fabulous cooking blog, Smitten Kitten, has made the rare jump from blog success to real book success. 

A.O. Scott's review of The Hobbit is fun. Love the first paragraph. And I really want to see "Any Day Now."   

Oliver Sacks explains those after-life stories by the not-quite-dead.