January 2011
5 posts
December 2010
9 posts
“It embodies the classic American combination of offhand style, swagger, and...”
– David Wondrich, in Esquire, on the old-fashioned
Real-world Editing →
Carol Fisher Saller, of the University of Chicago press, on what’s most important in editing:
The manuscript does not have to be perfect because perfect isn’t possible. As I say in The Subversive Copy Editor, there’s no Platonic ideal for that document, one “correct” way for it to turn out, one perfect version hidden in the block of marble that it’s your job to discover by endless chipping...
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by...”
– James Joyce, “Araby”
“GQ says your socks should match your trousers. I think socks should freelance.”
– Glenn O’Brien, aka GQ’s Style Guy
Last Call for Max Fish →
After 21 years, the Lower East Side bar Max Fish is closing. Having never been there, I come to bury, not to praise, though it sounds like a place I might have liked.How does a grimy watering hole inspire such indelible loyalty? For two decades, the bar affectionately known as the Fish was a hub for downtown intellectuals, creative types, skateboarders and assorted derelicts. It was the type of...
“They became black rectangles because their designers chose to make them like...”
– Alice Rawsthorn on German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic’s exhibition of black rectangular objects (via Kottke)
Checkmate
Joe: What's the deal with coconut water?
Jeremy: It rehydrates you.
Joe: I don't think anything can rehydrate you better than water.