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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Online

New Yorker Gets Great Hip Hop Story Somehow

2:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Wowza, Ta-Nehisi Coates got an entire profile of MF Doom in the New Yorker this week, something so unlikely it sounds like a dare. The best hip hop journalist profiles today’s illest MC in America’s best magazine. Mmmm, food.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
People

The Gays Do Not Want Michael Jackson, Thank You Very Much

3:15AM Brian Moylan | The intellectualisation of Michael Jackson as icon starts in earnest today with The New Yorker theatre critic Hilton Als’ queer theory read on his career in The New York Review of Books. The only problem is, Jackson wasn’t gay. More »
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Print

Dying Mag Pays Fortune For Dead Author’s Unfinished Book

1:49AM Pareene | Famed literary journal and titty mag Playboy acquired the exclusive serial rights to the unfinished final novella of author Vladimir Nabokov. They won the rights with flowers! And also lots of money. And also The New Yorker turned it down. More »
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