"For whatever reason, I felt compelled to go looking for the origins of the fancy toast trend. How does such a thing get started? What determines how far it goes? I wanted to know." —John Gravois "A Toast Story." Pacific Standard. January 13, 2014. I remember going to a bar once, and everyone was wearing … Continue reading When Toast Was “The Tip of the Hipster Spear”
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Belief vs. Doubt
"Franzen thinks that there’s no way for a writer to do good work — to write something that can be called “consuming and extraordinarily moving” — without putting a fence around yourself so that you can control the input you encounter. So that you could have a thought that isn’t subject to pushback all the … Continue reading Belief vs. Doubt
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