Articles Written By Robert Birnbaum
Robert Birnbaum is editor-at-large at Identity Theory. All the sketchy details of his life will be (re)fabricated in his memoir-in-progress, Just Talking: How to Do Things With Words. His weblog can be found here.
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Bret Easton Ellis
While the publishing world freaks out over false memoirs, who better to speak about truth in writing than an author with the same name as his protagonist?
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Web
Truthdig.com
A handful of journalists continue the honorable tradition of investigative reporter IF Stone, airing out the information that scoundrels in government and business work tirelessly to bury. Robert Scheer has...
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Birnbaum v.
George Packer
Tens of thousands of American soldiers are in Iraq, but only a handful of U.S. journalists are covering the story from the inside. One of them, George Packer, talks about bravery, ideology, and changing opinions.
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Things
French Market coffee
Those $150-per-gallon fancy-schmancy coffees have nothing on French Market coffee, whose motto is: "The essence of New Orleans in a cup." Chicory gives it a strong nutty taste, and also...
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Music
Cream
Eric Clapton, arguably the greatest white guitar player of his generation and still going strong, rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the band Cream. Bassist Jack...
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Barbara Ehrenreich
American business has preserved the conformity of the ‘50s but ditched the job security—what happened? A conversation about the terror of applying for jobs when experience doesn’t matter.
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Books
Masters of American Comics
The eponymously named tome that serves as the catalog for the Masters of American Comics exhibition at U.C.L.A.'s Hammer Museum and Los Angeles's MoCA contains work...
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Books
Why New Orleans Matters
Writer and musicologist Tom Piazza weighs in on his adopted city with the poignant Why New Orleans Matters. This book is a bittersweet paean to what is, arguably, the most...
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Birnbaum v.
Rick Moody
When novelists are listed among our most despicable citizens, can America claim to love literature? Our man up north talks to author Rick Moody about how we’re all on the same team when we’re reading.
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Things
Philips HE 592 earbuds
For the cost of the iPod, one should be able to expect near perfection. Odd, then, that the distinctive white earbuds--which make one a target for envy (and in some...
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Birnbaum v.
Ron Rash
Our man from New England talks to one of the Carolinas’ favorite sons about the strengths of southern writers, the benefits of teaching welders, and the crushing reality that awaits MFA grads.
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Books
Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006
Comic book collector, superhero aficionado, and novelist Chip Kidd, who pays his rent designing book covers, mostly for the House of Knopf, is the subject of the new mid-career retrospective...