To Locate One’s Place in the World
I Found One Job in Your Area
“Siri, I need something.” Beep. “What can I help you with?” “Siri, I want to fix you. I want to rewrite your dialogue.” Beep beep. “I can help you with that.”
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Playing the Victim
The Empathy Exams, a new collection of essays by Leslie Jamison, gets its title from a piece about medical acting that was published in The Believer. On the Harper’s blog, you can read an interview with Jamison, who calls her collection “a refusal to choose between these approaches — criticism, confession, journalism.” (Michelle Huneven interviewed Jamison for The Millions a couple of years ago.)
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Mark Haddon Takes to the Stage
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time author Mark Haddon will see his debut effort as a playwright hit the stage next month. The Independent tries to get the scoop. "So now we have this game of chess, in which you ask me what my new play is about, and I choose not to tell you what it's about."
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It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
What have you found in your grandparents' attics lately? Bet it wasn't a signed copy of Frankenstein.
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Brad Listi Finally Gets Interviewed
The NY Daily News sat Other People Podcast's Brad Listi down for an interview, and thus answers the question of “who interviews the interviewers.”