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The toxicity of growth
Ezra Klein • Abundance
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
overwhelmingly passive.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
His nonfiction persona was, as Wallace told an interviewer, “a little stupider and shmuckier than I am.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
His ambition was grandiose, but he wasn’t.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
The land to him isn’t real. It’s an economy of scale on a scale no one’s ever tried here.
Silvia Killingsworth • The Best American Food Writing 2019
while its virtues and liabilities are assessed.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent adul
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