#Comics
Interview with the author of a historical account of Marvel Comics: http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/the-long-twisted-history-of-marvel-comics-a-talk-with-sean-howe
#Crime
Growing up with an adopted older brother and convicted murderer http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/larry-swartz-murderer-adopted
#Business
How Starbucks revolutionized coffee culture, and might be bringing the same popular oomf to tea http://www.themorningnews.org/article/a-spot-for-tea
How Walmart used bribes to get building permits in illegal zones n Mexico http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/walmart-bribes-teotihuacan.html?_r=0
Disney brand runs everything http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/09/500-disney-iger/
#Essay
Shelia Heti writing about why bother socializing http://www.sheilaheti.net/whygoout2.html
Emily Gould on "lady blogs," emotional women, and validity of said emotional women as writers http://www.emilymagazine.com/?p=837
The female writer's fear of being alone, the pursuit of solitude and self satisfaction outside of relationships http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-lonely-ones/
Making and keeping friends in late young adulthood http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/faqs-re-friendship-in-your-20s/
Forgot just how much I love Rookie for a minute. Perennial goodie of an essay for the teenage girl inside of you http://rookiemag.com/2012/01/how-to-not-care-what-other-people-think-of-you/
#Fashion
Tavie Gevinson, child fashion blogger to culture pulse point (and masthead leader of Rookie) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all
#Feminism
J. Jack Halberstam talks about the dissolution of
traditional gender roles, and genders themselves, and how feminism needs to
move beyond polarizing vagina/penis platforms http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=981&fulltext=1
After Volume Eleven’s n+1
takedown of The Atlantic, I read
this piece by LA Review of Books
entitled “Is The Atlantic Making Us
Stupid?” talking again about gender issue/”women’s interest” pieces http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=918&fulltext=1
#Film
Interview with Mel Brooks http://www.avclub.com/articles/mel-brooks-on-how-to-play-hitler-and-how-he-almost,89843/
Interview with Corey Feldman http://www.avclub.com/articles/corey-feldman-on-child-actors-his-favorite-roles-a,89648/
#Health
On mental health, medical services responsibilities, and quality of life:
http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother
http://www.xojane.com/issues/a-response-to-i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-from-a-doctor-in-the-trenches-i-am-adam-lanzas-psychiatrist
http://www.vice.com/read/the-right-to-die-is-the-right-to-live-0912348-v19n12?Contentpage=-1
Fertility trials and culturing the skills of waiting http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6694/
#Language
A former DMV employee and self educated linguist endeavored
to create the most precise and logical language ever http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer?currentPage=all
#Literature
Short fiction by Rebecca Schiff http://nplusonemag.com/men-against-violence
The opening lines of this interview with VS Naipaul are
basically the best http://www.tnr.com/article/110946/vs-naipaul-the-arab-spring-authors-he-loathes-and-the-books-he-will-never-write#
Another great interview with Martin Amis http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/in-conversation-martin-amis.html
A historical literary moment, when the father of vampires met the father of American poetry http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/novemberdecember/feature/when-bram-met-walt
The Morning News finishes
its year-long series on modern Russian Literature with this excerpt and interview
with Mikhail Shishkin http://www.themorningnews.org/article/mikhail-shishkin
Review of Oprah: Gospel of an Icon that takes “followers of Oprah” to a new
level and explores the pseudo religious
impact of Oprah in viewers’ lives. http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1142&fulltext=1
#Music
The fusion of rap music and traditional Mongolian music http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2012/10/2012103113231574635.html
Music round up that speaks to the soul http://rookiemag.com/2012/12/from-the-soul/
#Obituary
White girl privilege aside, I appreciate this piece by Lena Dunham http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/06/lena-dunham-remembers-nora-ephron.html
#Politics
How American tragedies affect presidencies (and how Obama reacts to tragedy) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/17/a_president_we_can_believe_in
Interesting piece on the inside logistics that helped pass gay marriage bills in several states http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/the-gay-marriage-plot-inside-this-years-other-high-stakes-campaign/265865/?single_page=true
In a time where America is rife with gun control debates, a journalist steps behind the counter of a gun store http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201209/gun-shopping-gq-september-2012
Ta-Nehesi Coates writing about race and the presidency, and the pressure of acceptable blackness http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/1/?single_page=true
Multiculturalism, liberalism, and questions of identity http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/22/freedom-diversity-liberal-pentagram/?pagination=false
#Sexuality
Why Uganda's aggressive anti-gay laws have roots in American culture http://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/straight-mans-burden/?single=1
James Deen, America's sweetheart porn star http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1021&fulltext=1
Famous women talking about their first times http://rookiemag.com/2012/03/absolute-beginners/
Why you should never fake an orgasm (enjoyed the comment-versation about the heteronormative tone of the article as well) http://rookiemag.com/2012/02/a-real-good-time/
Attempts at online dating http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n20/emily-witt/diary
#Spirituality
Last month Rookie magazine's theme was Belief. A few of my favorite articles included building an altar, a conversation between atheists, and reconciling religion and feminism:
http://rookiemag.com/2012/12/anatomy-of-an-altar/http://rookiemag.com/2012/12/beyond-belief/http://rookiemag.com/2012/12/a-holy-allianc/
#Technology
How a Reddit query sparked a film treatment http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/ff_reddit/
Forget cloud storage. Theoretical extraterrestrial storage
is where its at. http://www.themorningnews.org/article/interstellar-hard-drive
Chemical weaponry developed in the Cold War http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/17/121217fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all
#Television
Sarah Nicole Prickett relates Alan Sorkin’s The Newsroom to the creeping fears of
the fading “great American male” legacy http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/how-to-get-under-aaron-sorkins-skin-and-also-how-to-high-five-properly/article4363455/
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