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Home Is Where the Heart Is
The Wall Street Journal, May 04, 2010
A longing for the perfect life in the perfect environment can make real-estate listings as evocative as novels. Review of Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum
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Indecision-Making
Review of The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
The New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2010
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A Power to Persuade
The deeper meaning of glamour
The Weekly Standard, March 27, 2010
After C-SPAN reran a 1999 BookNotes interview about my first book, I received an email from a disappointed viewer. He was chagrined to hear that I was editing a website called DeepGlamour instead of writing “more serious nonfiction.” Glamour, he implied, is a trivial subject, unworthy of consideration by people who watch, much less appear on, C-SPAN. -
Why Amelia Bombed
Glamour and charisma are two different things.
DoubleX (Slate), November 10, 2009
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Ralph Lauren: Still King Of Glamour
Despite recent missteps, the designer's vision has not lost its luster.
Forbes, October 20, 2009
Ralph Lauren, who turned 70 last week, is the most successful purveyor of glamour since the golden age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. -
The Secret Glamour of the Tin Man
How The Wizard of Oz appeals to "dreams of flight and transformation and escape."
DoubleX (Slate), September 19, 2009
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Politics and Glamour
Teddy, JFK, and Obama
Forbes, August 24, 2009
Ted was the Kennedy who lived. He was, as a result, the Kennedy who wasn't glamorous. -
What You Pay For
Review of Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
The New York Times Book Review, July 09, 2009
Fifteen years ago — before Google or Wikipedia or blogging or Craigslist or podcasts or YouTube — the technology investor and pundit Esther Dyson wrote an article analyzing the business of “creative content” in a future where the Internet made distribution essentially free. “Creators will have to fight to attract attention and get paid,” she predicted. Enforcing copyrights won’t be enough, because creators “will operate in an increasingly competitive marketplace where much of the intellectual property is distributed free and suppliers explode in number. . . . The problem for owners of content is that they will be competing with free or almost-free content.” That future is today, and it is the subject of “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired and the author of “The Long Tail.” Despite its subtitle, the book is less about the future than the present and recent past, which Anderson surveys in a cheerful, can-do voice. “People are making lots of money charging nothing,” he writes. “Not nothing for everything, but nothing for enough that we have essentially created an economy as big as a good-sized country around the price of $0.00.” -
With Functioning Kidneys for All
The Atlantic, July 08, 2009
Surely we can find enough kidney donors for those who need transplants. But doing so will require creativity, boldness, and a sense of urgency--and experimenting with controversial ideas like donor chains and financial incentives. -
The Real Reason That Ann Taylor Hates Plus Sizes
It has nothing to do with fat phobia.
DoubleX (Slate), June 08, 2009