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The ‘Observer’ Attempts to Part the Gays
Today we learn that there are just two different types of young New York homosexual men — theater queens and everybody else.
Posted 07/23/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Recent Ivy League Grads: Media Gold
An 'Observer' story today reminds us that we always seem to be reading shocking tales of graduates from elite schools having to do — gasp — hard work.
Posted 06/25/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Is the Traditional Magazine Writer Doomed? We Say No.
The Observer thinks that no young writers want to work for magazines anymore; they only want to blog. We aggressively disagree.
Posted 04/02/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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Meet the Ripsters
The trials and tribulations of buff nerddom.
Posted 03/26/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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The ‘Observer’ Takes on Phil Gourevitch, Assistant Envy
In today's Observer profile about Phil Gourevitch, we learn a few things about the man's tenure as new editor of the Paris Review. He's handsome, he's doing a great job, yadda yadda yadda. But the best thing we learned was about the profile's author, scribe Doree Shafrir. She is really, really excited about the editorial assistants at the Paris Review under George Plimpton. Here how she waxes poetic, not about Plimpton himself, but about the glamorous lives of his aides and interns:
Some, if not most, of the magazine’s appeal never had anything to do with what was actually in the magazine; it was about the idea of the magazine, the mystique associated with it as a place where young lovers of literature, most of whom were the well-groomed and well-mannered graduates of the nation’s elite colleges, could apprentice for a year, or more, after college, and attend some glamorous parties in exchange for reading through the slush pile.
Posted 10/31/07 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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