Audrey Gelman first appears in season two of Girls—which premiered Sunday night—coming out of the bathroom. She is carrying a tallboy that dwarfs her tiny frame, scolding her clingy boyfriend, Charlie, and looking for some weed. “Hi Audrey,” Marnie Michaels (played by Allison Williams) says, shooting daggers at her rival. Ms. Gelman’s role as Marnie’s Read More
With the Mayan apocalypse underdelivering (so far), it looks like it will be holiday travel as usual–which can be its own kind of doomsday scenario. You’re going to need reading material, and a lot of it. Here are ten of the best longreads that appeared in The Observer this year, all perfect for squirreling away in apps, Read More
Earlier today, for the second time in a little more than a year, Andrew Beccone moved his entire library. The Reanimation Library—which consists of hundreds of “outdated and discarded” volumes “culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles, and given new life as a resource for artists, writers, cultural archeologists, and other interested Read More
“There is real enthusiasm for Newsweek Global as an all-digital product,” said Barry Diller today on IAC’s quarterly earnings call. “But we do not have stars in our eyes.”
IAC’s third quarter media revenue almost tripled to $52.7 million, thanks to the inclusion of NewsBeast in the company’s consolidated results–following its acquisition of a controlling interest Read More
As TechCrunch first reported, Inside.com might once again become a functioning web domain, under the administration of Silicon Alley Reporter and Mahalo.com founder Jason Calacanis. And if that sounds to you like a lede from 2000, you probably remember Inside.com as the late-bubble content play—helmed by Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn—that gave us both David Carr and the Segway.
“For 10-plus years I’ve coveted the Inside.com domain name, and I’ve tried to own it,” Mr. Calacanis told The Observer. “I finally got it.” Read More
If you think New York has a monopoly on toxic media cultures, consider the balmy Petri dish of Conway, Arkansas, home of the Oxford American. The magazine has been in turmoil since early this month, when publisher Warwick Sabin locked employees out of its offices on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas Read More
According to a guest blogger, Emerson College-based literary journal Ploughshares might not be much for spirited debate, despite the story of its creation. (“They argued passionately about the art, politics, and literature of the day,” editor in chief Ladette Randolph writes of the magazine’s founders on the Ploughshares website.)
Harmony, instead, appears to be Read More
