Not based in Brooklyn. Recent bylines with @JSTOR_Daily, @VanityFair, @ozm, @HarvardMagazine, @voxdotcom, @undarkmag, and @vice. ericbeen at gmail dot com
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For @JSTOR_Daily, I wrote about one of my heroes, the sui generis satirist Terry Southern. An underlying theme of the piece is, I hope, an argument that his legacy is worth a reappraisal—particularly now given the absurd, mad world we currently reside in: daily.jstor.org/terry-southe…
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
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President Obama: It’s been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually gotten worse now that Trump is afraid of losing to Kamala. The childish nicknames and crazy conspiracy theories and weird obsession with crowd sizes 🤏
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Jason Isbell sings us the Fox News blues ahead of his performance at the DNC
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“I should’ve died in my 20s. I became successful in my 40s. I became a dad in my 50s. I feel like I’ve stolen a car — a really nice car — and I keep looking in the rearview mirror for flashing lights. But there’s been nothing yet.”
~ Anthony Bourdain
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"When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them—and that is of course because they accept the system and identify themselves with it."
-Thomas Merton
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“I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes. nyer.cm/0KvcA89
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"Get yourself a hut house not too far from town, live cheap, go ball in the bars once in awhile, write and rumble in the hills and learn how to saw boards and talk to grandmas you damn fool, carry loads of wood for them, clap your hands at shrines, get supernatural favors, take flower-arrangement lessons and grow chrysanthemums by the door, and get married for krissakes, get a friendly smart sensitive human-being gal who don't give a shit for martinis every night and all that dumb white shit in the kitchen."
~ Jack Kerouac
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On a flight with someone who lived up (or down) to his name.
#martinshort #comedyroyalty
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The Lions went from no primetime games and constantly being disrespected, to a win over the REIGNING SUPER BOWL CHAMPS IN A PRIMETIME SEASON OPENER. Celebrate this Detroit Fans, YOU DESERVE IT. Dan Campbell and the Lions answered the bell and SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
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Here's what the layperson consuming surface level articles and out of context video clips doesn't seem to understand about Coach Prime. Sure, he has always had a flashy style and a brash, hyper-confident aura. But that man is OLD SCHOOL in his work ethic and his expectations for those around him. The Deion Sanders that you hate is just a self-created character he designed to get and keep your attention. The Deion Sanders you should love is the man that always backs it up with relentless hard work and dedication. Today, he proved this yet again in his first game as Colorado's head coach. Before you start moving goal posts, don't forget that CU was a -20.5 UNDERDOG on the road against the reigning national runner up. Everyone seems shocked, but no one should be. He's Prime Time. #coachprime
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The absolute worst part about this guy isn’t that he’s so confidently full of shit, it’s that he’s just an exquisite creature of our whole media and political ecosystem
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Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” published in 1948, inspired more letters than any other New Yorker story. The response was, for the most part, either confused or outraged. Reread the story—or listen to it—right here: nyer.cm/2yleEko
ALT An image of a field and sky, with a headline that reads “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson.
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A big day for me! Brazen @Octopus_Books just acquired the rights to my new book -- a true story about how and why a group of Hungarian women killed their husbands 100 years ago. Thanks to @agent_bal @MMLitAgency!
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The conservative Supreme Court just made it easier for corporations to pollute our bodies of water. trib.al/STIpuHB
