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Everybody Knows Me: An Interview with Walter Matthau
Matthau would be ninety-four today. The poet Aram Saroyan, his stepson, spoke to him in 1974 about the vagaries of fame. Matthau, left, with Maureen Stapleton and Jack Lemmon in a 1974 production of...
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Faster, Faster, Faster, and Other News
Adolph Menzel, Eisenwalzwerk (Moderne Cyklopen), ca. 1872. Congratulations to our art editor, Charlotte Strick, whose design for Lydia Davis’s Can’t and Won’t made the New York Times’s list of the best...
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One-Man Job
Clara Peeters, Still Life with Shrimp and Eggs, ca. 1635.It is nice when people offer to help and mean it. But I was sincere, too, when I said that no, I didn’t need help cooking the eggs. That it was...
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Beauty
From a 1960s Avon ad.There are certain unpleasant life experiences that are not palliated by the fact that you know that they’re meaningless. I am speaking here of something specific: the particular...
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Our Prefab Thanksgiving
Celebrating the old-fashioned way: at an African-themed indoor water park in Wisconsin.The yellow three-track potato sack slide is encased in ice, and the go-kart tarps are encased in ice, and the Paul...
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Pursued by H
Finding a letter in a burrito.Femme au Burrito, an 1875 painting by Auguste Renoir modified by Chili’s for a 2015 ad campaign with Buzzfeed. Image via BuzzfeedI was somewhat delirious when I found the...
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Pursued by H
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Femme au Burrito, an 1875 painting by Auguste Renoir modified by Chili’s for a 2015 ad...
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Everybody Knows Me: An Interview with Walter Matthau
Matthau would be ninety-four today. The poet Aram Saroyan, his stepson, spoke to him in 1974 about the vagaries of fame. Matthau, left, with Maureen Stapleton and Jack Lemmon in a 1974 production of...
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Faster, Faster, Faster, and Other News
Adolph Menzel, Eisenwalzwerk (Moderne Cyklopen), ca. 1872. Congratulations to our art editor, Charlotte Strick, whose design for Lydia Davis’s Can’t and Won’t made the New York Times’s list of the best...
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One-Man Job
Clara Peeters, Still Life with Shrimp and Eggs, ca. 1635. It is nice when people offer to help and mean it. But I was sincere, too, when I said that no, I didn’t need help cooking the eggs. That it was...
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Beauty
From a 1960s Avon ad. There are certain unpleasant life experiences that are not palliated by the fact that you know that they’re meaningless. I am speaking here of something specific: the particular...
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Our Prefab Thanksgiving
Celebrating the old-fashioned way: at an African-themed indoor water park in Wisconsin. The yellow three-track potato sack slide is encased in ice, and the go-kart tarps are encased in ice, and the...
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Pursued by H
Finding a letter in a burrito. Femme au Burrito, an 1875 painting by Auguste Renoir modified by Chili’s for a 2015 ad campaign with Buzzfeed. Image via Buzzfeed I was somewhat delirious when I found...
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Pursued by H
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Femme au Burrito, an 1875 painting by Auguste Renoir modified by Chili’s for a 2015 ad...
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