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Jobs clung to the belief that his fruit-heavy vegetarian diet would prevent not just mucus but also body odor, even if he didn’t use deodorant or shower regularly. It was a flawed theory.

Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs

Silver Jews

Mark Richardson pitchfork.com

Without his make-up, the expression of outrage on his face made Crosland resemble an announcer tricked for the first time into reading an item of bad news about himself.

J. G. Ballard • High-Rise: A Novel

wearing what appeared to be a ski mask, had rushed into a viewing

Fredrik Backman • Anxious People

OBP involves all of a batter’s relevant plate appearances and outcomes. It excludes the sacrifice bunt and catcher’s interference;

Anthony Castrovince • A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball

When we resume play, however, Pete is a different person. Not revived, not reenergized—wholly different. He’s done it again, sloughed off that other doubt-ridden Pete as a snake sheds its skin. And now he’s in the process of shedding me. Leading 5–4, he starts the tenth game of the set by blasting three straight aces. But not just any aces. They ev