In my time crafting on the web, I’ve come to understand that the websites have limited meaning on their own, what matters are the links between them. The web exists in its links, not in its pages.
Again, I’m picking on Scott for reasons. The same is true of every other essayist I love. Sam Kriss at his best provides catharsis; at his worst, a sense of jaded superiority. Ted Gioia at his best makes me fall in love with art and music as if for the first time; at his worst, like I’m part of a small culturally-literate elite in a crumbling world... See more