Articles Tagged with #obsessions
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Personal Essays
White Rabbit
When illness erases the fine line between love and obsession.
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Personal Essays
Reading With Scissors
If not for a tragic car accident in 2001, W.G. Sebald would be celebrating his senior citizenship next week. Recalling an obsessive introduction to the author’s unclassifiable genre.
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Stuck in My Head
We’ve all had songs we could listen to it for days on end—and have, much to the annoyance of anyone within earshot.
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Personal Essays
Misery Loves Comedy
Grief takes on many forms, though it’s rare to hear about a sudden addiction to comedy clubs and Seth Meyers’s political impersonations.
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Personal Essays
Binge Listening: the Art of Consumption
Find a new band, listen to the single, expand to a few more songs, then a whole album, then all the albums, and finally, months later, you’ve exhausted their entire catalog—and listened to nothing else in between. Now: Repeat.
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Personal Essays
I’m Your Biggest Fan
There are many reasons to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable and all are believable—until you try to explain your motives to others.
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Obsessions
Dinner Is Served!
A never-quenched need for aged, obscure cookery manuals, preferably the kind with recipes for Tunnel of Fudge.