In this week’s @NewYorker, I profile James Daunt—founder of Daunt Books, now transformative chief executive of both Barnes & Noble and Waterstones—and look closely at both the art of the ideal bookstore and the future of reading. https://t.co/fmQBxsQGkI
@FilmGamerOne@colemanjspilde I've spent a decade doing the homework to avoid asking inane questions. I say this not as a defense... but I genuinely don't believe he thinks he's practicing journalism.
@colemanjspilde Nothing about the work itself suggests he believes that is his responsibility. And I think so long as the show is watched and celebrated, no change will occur. Why should it?
There comes a point where someone whose job it is to speak to significant culture figures does the world a grave disservice by simply just not knowing shit. This is your responsibility, and you aren’t taking it seriously. Jake Shane does not want conversations; he wants proximity
“Democracy is like health. We take it for granted until we don’t have it.”
Isabel Allende on fleeing a dictatorship, divorce, and how Antonio Banderas “used to be handsome.”
(Her words not ours.)
https://t.co/f82WZoOX9p
@BrassChunkyUS@WesternLensman I'm not "told or set scheduled." And the prompting is all my own writing. Whether you like it or not that's up to you. But wherever you land there's only me to blame.
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses revealed their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame, Caitlin Flanagan reported in 2014.
https://t.co/WynvMXFpfC
📸: Phil Toledano
I've seen one of the greatest of documentaries, William Greaves's Once Upon a Time in Harlem, and I hope that you'll be able to see it soon, too: https://t.co/nLAr2i23R6
@collegefbtown@JFrankensteiner Did you like Armageddon Time? You don’t know anything about me, or the work I’ve done on the show (and beyond) in support of the filmmakers and communities you’re referring to. You’re reducing a decade of our show to 20 seconds on one episode.