On Superfluity

So many fascinating write-ups about Tom Wolfe and This American Life (the made-for-TV version) last week, that I felt compelled to post a few extracts. What many of you noted was how a finished literary text — already compressed and, I think most of us agree, already perfect in its God-given form — can be [...]

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Roger & the Supersized Me

Not all egoists are good essayists, but all good essayists have egos. And the video essayists? Supersized. When you decide to craft an essay, video, print or other, you do so because you feel like what you have to say is supremely important, or at least important enough that the public should be consuming your [...]

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