December 2011
1 post
“That phrase, “loss of innocence,” has become stale with overuse and diminishing...”
– Christopher Hitchens, in a Vanity Fair article about The Great Gatsby
October 2011
3 posts
WatchBeyonce strikes again! 50 outfits, 15 horns and 6 steel drums later, the Countdown video.
“There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of...”
– President Barack Obama
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Occupy Wall Street
Dear citizens convinced that the US media is ignoring Occupy Wall Street (and posting about this incessantly on Facebook): You are only half-right. Perhaps you’ve missed the many CityRoom blog posts and the NYT cover story on Saturday? To put the numbers in perspective, 2,000 people showed up to Zuccotti Park (in a city of 8 million, a country of 307 million) on Friday. 400,000 people turned up to...
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
6 posts
Ten of the best supper clubs in Berlin →
My debut in the Guardian, and also my first article involving both Yorkshire pudding and chicken fried steak.
Why We Don't Need a Debt Ceiling →
The latest column spells it out: “Republicans will keep using the threat of default as a political weapon. This approach may well be extended to bargaining over budget resolutions as well, with Republicans threatening a government shutdown unless they get what they want. If that sounds improbably reckless, consider that every Republican Presidential candidate except Jon Huntsman came...
July 2011
5 posts
Amy Winehouse - It’s My Party
“Brooklyn is full of white kids doing white kid things” stories are, all of...”
– Hamilton Nolan, The Poisonous Brooklyn Trend Story Addiction
The Urbanist’s Berlin →
My latest NYMag feature, on the great city of Berlin. I was pretty psyched to interview both tank and taxi drivers.
June 2011
3 posts
David Sedaris: Guy Walks Into a Bar Car →
“I’ve often thought that Europe is an allegory for the ages of man. You’re born...”
– A.A. Gill for The Spectator
May 2011
7 posts
Brian Eno - St. Elmo’s Fire
Offbeat Bargains in Berlin →
I wrote a short piece for the New York Times about shopping in the Friedrichshain neighborhood. It was rather excellent to report a story only a couple blocks from home, for once. The fact-checking was also fun: “Was kostet der Robot USB-Stick?”
Fleet Foxes - Battery Kinzie
April 2011
5 posts
Rambling With W.G. Sebald in East Anglia →
I wrote a travel article retracing the footsteps of the erudite German author W.G. Sebald for the New York Times. The accompanying slideshow by Andrew Testa is nothing short of gorgeous. My favorite outtake: “Development of the British atomic bomb took place at Orford Ness, but it was still a shock to see an obsolete nuclear bomb on the floor of the information center. “I like the bomb,” one...
Dusty Springfield - Spooky
Paul Theroux: An Argument for Travel During... →
March 2011
2 posts
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is...”
– Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
February 2011
5 posts
Among the Muslim Brotherhood →
Yes, I am partial, but Nick’s essay for the NYT Magazine is likely the finest article ever written and filed via Blackberry.
January 2011
6 posts
Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution... →
Creep (feat. Romy of the XX) - Days
December 2010
5 posts
“It is a minor thing in a major life, but one word I will always associate with...”
– Amy Davidson in The New Yorker. George Packer’s profile of Holbrooke from last September is a must-read.
Call It The New Junk Mail →
Sloane Crosley’s hilarious essay on sexting for this month’s GQ.
Lucinda Williams - Essence
