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Tavi Launches Magazine with Help from Friends at This American Life and The Awl
Tavi Gevinson's online magazine for teens, Rookie, launched today. Although it publishes daily, Rookie will have monthly themes to create the cohesiveness of a magazine issue, according to managing...
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Kirsten Dunst Likes Making Out, Ira Glass Knows the Birds from the Bees and...
Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia pose at The Bing Bar It's winding down, celebs are fleeing, the open bars are starting to dry up, and The Observer's 4 day long hangover is starting to catch up with...
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This American Life Retracts Apple Factory Story; Author Mike Daisey Pulls a...
Daisey, performing "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" PRI's This American Life has retracted its most popular broadcast ever, "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory," because it contains "significant...
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HBO Developing Ira Glass Series
Ira Glass (Getty Images) HBO is in development on a series based on a This American Life segment--material less capacious than, say, The Corrections (another upcoming HBO project) and yet as...
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Ira Glass To Live This American Life In Chelsea Carriage House
A spot fit for a radio star? Chicago, it's really over. Sure, Ira Glass left a few years ago. Sure, he packed up the entire This American Life crew, said that he was never coming back, but all that...
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NPR Planet Money Host Adam Davidson Under Fire from Rogue Media Ethicists...
NPR's Planet Money—which was born out of the Peabody award-winning This American Life episode about the financial crash in 2008, "The Giant Pool of Money"—is the financial news digest of choice for...
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Wide Awake: Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me Is Anything but a Snooze
In his dreams! Mike Birbiglia wins big in Sleepwalk With Me. (IFC) Mike Birbiglia is not a morning person. The 34-year-old comedian has compared himself to a bear when he has to wake up. He does the...
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Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me Is Anything but a Snooze
Mike Birbiglia in Sleepwalk With Me. (IFC) A longer conversation with Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass about Sleepwalk with Me can be found here. Mike Birbiglia is not a morning person. The 34-year-old...
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To Do Saturday: American Bandstand
Ira Glass (Getty Images) Though we missed Mr. Sedaris yesterday, we’re still getting our fill of “IRL” encounters withThis American Life personalities. Today, it’s Ira Glass, the venerable NPR...
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Totally Wired: New EIC Hosts Pop-Up Launch in Soho
Dadich and Armisen. The lights were bright, the music poppy and the toys plentiful at the opening of the Wired pop-up store party in Soho last week. Incoming editor in chief Scott Dadich greeted the...
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David Rakoff’s Last Words
David Rakoff. (Getty Images) It was exactly the kind of thing you’d imagine David Rakoff, the sweet but kvetchy essayist who died last year, rolling his eyes at. Last week, 62 readers convened on the...
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Bedtime Stories
Ira Glass. (Courtesy of Moleskine) Ira Glass crawled into a king-size bed in a suite at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg last Friday night and began to read from the beginning of Marcel Proust’s novel...
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