December 2010
11 posts
We Need New Ways of Judging the Success of... →
What other ways can we start looking at what websites are and how they perform? Well, pay rate, sure (though try prying that number out of anyone).
Then there’s traffic versus site income, certainly. Take the HuffPo again—that’s $30 million this year, they say, and they were reporting 26 million uniques via comScore back in March, so let’s just totally ballpark it and say they did 312 million...
Top 10 Longreads for Art, Design, Film & Music →
longreads:
I teamed with the wonderful BrainPickings.org to feature my favorites in this category. Some of you beat me to the punch on these, but there are a few new gems in there (Stephen Tobolowsky, I’m looking at you).
Not to be left out of the fun.
Gillian Reagan: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
The latest list, from Gillian Reagan of Capital New York fame: Features Sady Doyle, Steven Hyden, Zachary Woolfe, Paul Ford, Josh Allen…
Paul Ford: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
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Paul Ford was an editor at Harper’s Magazine; now he’s wandering around, looking at stuff and writing computer programs.
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Tony Judt, “Night,” New York Review of Books (January 14)
This was the year of the dying critic. Most writers would do themselves, and their readers, a service by dying without all the self-elegies (“selfegies”?). We’ve read once too often, right, of the bark...
Andrea Pitzer: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
BTW, Andrea Pitzer’s Nieman Storyboard interviews with writers (like this one with Jay Caspian Kang) are excellent longreads unto themselves.
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Andrea Pitzer is writer and editor of Nieman Storyboard.
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To eliminate some of the choices that have already been popular—hello, David Grann! ;)—I haven’t included anyone I’ve met in person. All stories from 2010.
Rabbi to the Rescue,...
Alex Pappademas: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
longreads:
Alex Pappademas is a staff writer for GQ.
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Rules: Nothing not published this year, nothing from GQ, because I work there, and—in the spirit of the assignment—nothing I didn’t first read on my iPhone. (And I realize now, having done this whole thing, that everything on the main list is from a print-based publication, which should not be taken as some kind of a Statement. I still...
Choire Sicha: Five Longreads from 2010: Boundary...
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In honor of the Longreads year-end fiesta of Things That People Have Read That Are Considered Long (And Also Worthy) from 2010, herewith, five things that stuck with me.
But first, a note about what was excluded. For starters, a number of things from The Awl, which were of course my ultimate favorites. (I won’t name names, because I love everyone who writes for us equally but also in a...
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Chris Jones: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
At least one of Chris Jones’s stories will be on my own Top 5.
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Chris Jones is a writer at large for Esquire. (His stories are on many of your Top Fives.) He’s currently blogging at My Second Empire.
David Grann: The Mark of a Masterpiece, The New Yorker, July 12, 2010
Just a perfectly constructed, painful reveal of the sinister side of the art world, starting at its...
