Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ to Premiere on Showtime
Last year we wrote about rock icon Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, which detailed one of the more infamous times in American rock history and charted the legendary relationship between Smith and...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio: From The Basketball Diaries to Serial Killer
Like a lot of people, my introduction to the seemingly innate brilliance of Leonardo DiCaprio was in the 1995 classic The Basketball Diaries. At that point, DiCaprio was nearing two decades on this...
View ArticleR.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Shares His Impressive Reading List
If you were a young-ish person in the 90s, chances are you know all about Michael Stipe. As the frontman of R.E.M., Stipe paved a voraciously artistic path that cut right through the otherwise...
View ArticleCafé at Shakespeare and Company Means We’re Going Back to Paris
The clatter of silverware from Le Petit Châtelet next door rang in the background as I watched pure happiness sweep over my wife’s eyes. She lifted a copy of Ulysses from a display table like it was...
View ArticleEveryday People, Meet Robert Irvine: The man who will change your life
Oh, Food Network, how you slay me. If you’re anything like me, Food Network has been your go-to resource for anytime-of-the-day television for years now. And a massive, British component of that...
View ArticleWhy I Gave My Fitbit Away: A Cautionary Tale
Look, it’s no secret that I’m prone to bouts of unbelievable idiocy. There was the time I decided rock climbing was, “totally the exercise I’ve always been looking for” and wound up on display,...
View ArticleAllie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again
As someone who can only barely remember a time before the internet, I tend to give the online world a whole lot of legitimacy. So when popular online figures extend their reach into the world of...
View ArticleDr. Seuss Returns Thanks to a Box of Forgotten Drawings
It was the summer of 2009. I had failed out of college (I’ve since graduated), was bumming on a friend’s couch, and was unemployed. I sat on my friend’s stoop angst-ridden, unsure of the future,...
View ArticleScamming Amazon: Creating a Fake Bestseller in One Week
It’s no secret that the world of self-publishing on Amazon has been mired in controversy for years. But recently, I came across a story about an Amazon “success” that I feel perfectly illustrates the...
View ArticleGenre-Redefining True Crime Author Ann Rule Passes Away
“Three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are...
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