Nine books I think you should read (plus a couple more that I need to read,...
The New York Times Magazine's 6th Floor Blog interviewed me about the books I'm reading now (including a climate scientist's account of dealing with evidence and uncertainty in the treatment of...
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Good nonfiction: "Cowhand – The Story of a Working Cowboy" (1953)
I bought this used paperback copy of Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy, by Fred Gipson, many years ago at a used bookstore. I finally got around to reading it. Here is my book report. The author...
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"Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death,...
In 2012, I was given the privilege of performing my high school ska-punk hit song "Adam Wants A Blowjob" during a performance of Mortified in Brookline, Massachusetts. Mortified is a gloriously...
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Read an exclusive excerpt from "An Internet In Your Head: A New Paradigm For...
A few months back, I shared a piece from neuroscientist (and longtime BB reader!) Dan Graham about research into the language we use to discuss and understand the human brain. For years, scientists...
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The weirdly conservative story of a famous American drag artist from the 1910s
Beautiful: The Story of Julian Eltinge, America's Greatest Female Impersonator, is a neat look at American cultural history and the waves in which something as seemingly queer and subversive as drag...
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