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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Clara used to work in infant wear,” the manager explains, “selling onesies.”
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Ernest already had plans for the royalties from the book. He was going to establish a trust fund for his family with the earnings from the first 70,000 copies; everything beyond that was going toward the purchase of a boat.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

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But what to do, where to, next? To be a New Yorker is one thing, but to decide consciously to stay, to live out one’s life here? That’s another. I wasn’t sure I had what it takes.
Bill Hayes • Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Donald Trump kept trying to thread the needle with birther accusations. Maybe this sitting president isn’t a real American. Maybe this election—of a man, by the way, who was scrutinized the first time he ran for office—is a case where we need to take a closer look. This all happens on a more fundamental level than policy disputes. It would be
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