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Archive
November 2025
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October 2025
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September 2025
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A Surprising Find: “Finding Freedom”: ''
August 2025
“American culture was shifting Si-ward”: ''
July 2025
Weeknotes 03: Rams, Asawa, Morris: ''
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June 2025
NYT: The Best 100 Movies of the 21st Century : ''
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May 2025
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Strategy at the Getty: Not Just Our Art, but All Art: ''
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April 2025
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March 2025
“A book always feels like a place I’ve been to”: ''
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NYT: "They Had an Answer to Their City’s Decline. Then Came the Immigration Crackdown.": ''
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February 2025
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January 2025
Orlando Whitfield: The Feel of Wealth: ''
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December 2024
Year in Review: 2024: ''
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November 2024
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October 2024
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September 2024
New Poems from Carl Phillips: ''
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“Studio Culture Now”: ''
August 2024
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June 2024
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Tina Brown: “America needs editing.” : ''
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April 2024
Low, “The Plan” (Can I hold it?): ''
January 2024
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December 2023
Year in Review: 2023: ''
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September 2023
Interrogating Privilege: ''
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July 2023
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June 2023
Cormac McCarthy, RIP: ''
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May 2023
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“What business are you in?”: ''
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April 2023
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March 2023
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February 2023
We Will Not Be Entertained Enough: ''
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January 2023
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ChatGPT: BS FTW?: ''
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December 2022
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Julie Blackmon and Convergences: ''
“The Power Broker”: ''
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November 2022
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Thanksgiving with the Incandenzas: ''
Knoll: Our Work’s Worth Waiting For: ''
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October 2022
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Agency work, without the ta-da: ''
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Content in Flight: ''
September 2022
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August 2022
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“Knowing Wink”: ''
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Venice: ''
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July 2022
Creativity, Not Chaos: ''
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June 2022
"What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language”: ''
May 2022
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March 2022
A Few Recent Movies: ''
January 2022
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Year in Review: 2021: ''
December 2021
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November 2021
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September 2021
“Fewer have more”: ''
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August 2021
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December 2020
Year in Review: 2020: ''
November 2020
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May 2020
Weeknotes #02: ''
April 2020
Weeknotes #01: ''
March 2020
Toni Morrison's Exquisite Nonfiction: ''
January 2020
Playing Haley Heynderickx: ''
How Basecamp Communicates: ''
December 2019
Anne Enright: “The Gathering”: ''
November 2019
“The weather is no longer small talk”: ''
August 2019
Charles and Ray, Designers From the Near Future: ''
Tweedy + The Beasties: ''
July 2019
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May 2019
Paul Ford's Latest: ''
Jia Tolentino: “Ecstasy”: ''
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George Packer on Richard Holbrooke: ''
March 2019
Teju Cole on Embedding Hesitation: ''
Remnick on Buddy Guy and the Blues: ''
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February 2019
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January 2019
Basecamp's Public Post-Mortem: ''
Terry Theise on "a Fine Kind of Melancholy": ''
December 2018
Craig Mod on the Future of Books: ''
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Essential Role of Great Editors: ''
November 2018
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New Knausgaard Interview @ NewYorker.com: ''
"Succession": ''
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October 2018
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September 2018
“Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change”: ''
July 2018
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June 2018
Paul Ford on Microsoft Buying GitHub: ''
Four Recent Pieces on Parenthood: ''
Leadership St. Louis 2018-19: ''
More Great Listening: Batuman & Sow: ''
May 2018
Lucky Podcast: "The Choice": ''
Michael Chabon on Being a Writer + Parent: ''
April 2018
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March 2018
Cultural Notes: February 2018: ''
February 2018
Cultural Notes: January 2018: ''
Abbott Miller on the "Content-Based Studio": ''
December 2017
Year in Review: 2017: ''
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Discussing William Gass on St. Louis Public Radio: ''
On Meeting & Knowing William Gass: ''
William H. Gass, Rest in Peace: ''
November 2017
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Tim Carmody on Bill Callahan: ''
October 2017
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When Lapham Played Beethoven for Monk: ''
Karl Ove Knausgaard Walks Central Park: ''
September 2017
Nick Paumgarten Profiles St. Vincent: ''
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August 2017
Teju Cole in Words & Pictures: ''
July 2017
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Lethem on Knausgaard: "My Hero": ''
June 2017
Gregory Crewdson: : ''
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May 2017
"A Father's Final Odyssey": ''
April 2017
Song Exploder: ''
March 2017
Remembering Robert Silvers: ''
Jack White's World: ''
Exit West: ''
February 2017
Hilton Als on “Moonlight”: ''
Upcoming Talk: "Refreshing the Forest Park Forever Brand": ''
"Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game": ''
January 2017
Anil Dash w/ Krista Tippett: ''
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Jason Fried: "Restoring Sanity to the Office": ''
December 2016
Michael Bierut on Honesty, Taste & Intelligence: ''
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Alan Burdick on Time: ''
Studio Gang to STL: ''
The William H. Gass Symposium: ''
James Wood: “Lessons From My Mother”: ''
October 2016
Knausgaard & Zadie: ''
September 2016
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August 2016
Roz Chast's Deeply Poignant Memoir: ''
The Refugee Nation: ''
Tadao Ando: The Idea of a Center: ''
Listenforestpark.org: ''
July 2016
Max Porter's "Grief Is the Thing with Feathers": ''
May 2016
“The Monocle Guide to Cozy Homes”: ''
Paul Kalanithi Writes To His Daughter: ''
February 2016
"Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl": ''
Silverblatt & Knausgaard: ''
January 2016
Year in Review: 2015: ''
December 2015
David Remnick on "CBS Sunday Morning": ''
Adam Gopnik: "Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith": ''
November 2015
Ida: ''
May 2015
Kjartansson in Central Park: ''
January 2015
Year in Review: 2014: ''
June 2014
Launched: TheGassInterviews.org: ''
December 2013
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September 2013
"On Becoming a Father": ''
Life News: I'm Joining Forest Park Forever: ''
August 2013
Seamus Heaney: 1939 – 2013: ''
The Unauthorized Marissa Mayer Biography: ''
Ramón Lobo Interviews David Remnick: ''
My Father-in-Law, Profiled: ''
July 2013
Gass at 89: ''
June 2013
Bezos and the Six-Page Meeting Narrative: ''
April 2013
Robert Silvers: Toward a "New Form of Criticism": ''
CoDesign on Editorially: ''
Hemon: "The Book of My Lives": ''
March 2013
Remnick: "A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet": ''
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"William H. Gass: How I Write": ''
The Ecosystem Known As Reading: ''
January 2013
Asimov: Why Wine: ''
"The sirens had hoarse throats": ''
Virginia Woolf, Observing: ''
Year in Review: 2012: ''
December 2012
Craig Mod: "Subcompact Publishing": ''
October 2012
"Small Presses & Self-Publishers: Enemies? Or Half-Siblings?": ''
Evan Osnos: "Boss Rail": ''
Steven Holl on Museum Architecture: ''
The Leaves Outside: ''
"In Silicon Valley, Perks Now Begin at Home": ''
"The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent": ''
Kessler Continued: On Rilke, His Lips & War: ''
September 2012
Count Harry Kessler: "You Cannot Waste Time When You're Young": ''
Zadie Smith Profiles Jay-Z: ''
August 2012
Popping Up in the New York Times: ''
July 2012
“The Gass Sentences: A Top 50”: ''
Discussing "J R": ''
June 2012
"Study Reveals Dolphins Lack Capacity To Mock Celebrity Culture": ''
"Triple Canopy Launches Sarajevo Residency": ''
Len Gutkin on "J R": ''
The Wire: An Oral History: ''
"The World’s First and Only Completely Honest Résumé of a Graphic Designer": ''
David Grann: "The Yankee Comandante": ''
May 2012
Craig Mod: "Hack the Cover": ''
"Not His Riches, But Ours": ''
"A Different Puff Than Yours": ''
April 2012
Paul Ford on Facebook and Instagram: ''
Skepticism in Montaigne's Day: ''
March 2012
Craig Mod on Building an App (and a Book): ''
Dwight Garner: "The Way We Read Now": ''
Ezra Klein: "The Unpersuaded": ''
"Which Cover Would You Choose?": ''
"Radiohead’s Runaway Guitarist": ''
Joe Pollack Has Died: ''
"Tony Judt: A Final Victory": ''
"Instapaper Placebo": ''
Radiolab: Escape!: ''
H-Omer Design Featured on the Goodsie Blog: ''
The Ryan Lizza Diet: ''
February 2012
Mandy Brown: : ''
Aleksander Hemon: "National Subjects": ''
5 Highlights from Germany & Spain: ''
Tim Parks Defends E-Books: ''
Steve Coll Remembers Anthony Shadid: ''
John Gruber on Mountain Lion: ''
"The Germans Dive Deeper": ''
Harper's: "What happened in Vegas": ''
This American Life: "Alien Experiment": ''
David Carr: "At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly": ''
Evgeny Morozov: "The Death of the Cyberflâneur": ''
Dahlia Lithwick: "Colbert v. the Court": ''
Building a Mind Created in Words: ''
January 2012
Nicholas Carr: "Why publishers should give away ebooks": ''
Franzen on Books, E-Books, and Permanence: ''
Emily Nussbaum on "Downton Abbey": ''