What are you reading this weekend?
Some responses from our web team:
Chris Good, Staff Editor and Blogger, Politics:
“I always liked the ethos. It was literary. The Atlantic published fiction and poems, and it seemed committed to intellectual honesty, bueauty, and voice. My Dad got it when I was a kid, so that helped. It wasn’t a single event, but rather reading what The Atlantic had to offer in terms of blogs and long-form magazine pieces over the years—the commitment to things I actually liked, as opposed to most media outlets—especially in more recent years. The Atlantic was doing its thing in the face of a drastically oposed news-media zeitgeist, which meant an increasing tawdriness of things as outlets stretched for new ad dollars and strained to maintain the same accounts. I figured, well, if The Atlantic can stand up for itself in the face of all that (and figure out a way to survive)…I guess it’s the real deal. And that was something worth going for.”
Daniel Indiviglio, Staff Editor and Blogger, Business:
“A love for writing paired with a passion for truth.”
Nicole Allan, Staff Editor and Blogger, Politics:
“Hanna Rosin! I love her so much. I read a crime piece she wrote for the magazine a while back, and then one about transgendered children, and i kept following her stuff. I wanted to work at a magazine that let awesome journalists pursue whichever topics they found interesting and make them interesting to everyone else.”
Jared Keller, Social Media Editor:
“One story: ’Is Google Making Us Stoopid,’ by Nicholas Carr. I’d always loved the magazine, but this inspired me to join its ranks in any way I could.”
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Dear Tumblr,
We’re trying out something new this week: an open forum where you can share your thoughts, submit posts, ask questions, or comment on the events of the week. If you like it, we’ll make it a regular feature.
Submit a post (on our Letters page), ask a question (on our Inquiries page), or just tell us: what’s on your mind this week?
This week’s recommendations:
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Want to contribute? Ask us a question (under Inquiries) or submit a post (under Letters).
Got something to say? What’s on your mind?
What was the most interesting or provocative article, book, or blog post you read this weekend?
Those of you unhappy with the quality of movie ideas and output of today will likely also get a kick out of excuses like “weak plot,” “improbable,” “too conventional” and “no adaptations desired.” Of course, the notice does make the studio seem interested in action, but nothing too unpleasant, and they weren’t down for period pieces and foreign-set works.
What do you do when you discover that someone with your same name writes erotica?
Write about it on the Atlantic, of course.
It’s always good to hear from old friends, but imagine my surprise when a former college roommate asked me via email whether I’d written this: “I Hit Her—And She Liked It.” I followed the link to Jezebel, the online women’s magazine covering celebrity, sex, and fashion, and there found a grainy image of a woman in rapture and an accompanying article that straddled, among other things, the borders between fiction, memoir, and pornography. At the top was my byline.
This week’s recommendations:
Like what we do here? Recommend us for politics, news, or tech.
Want to contribute? Ask us a question (under Inquiries) or submit a post (under Letters).
Got something to say? What’s on your mind?