Alissa Wilkinson

<a href="http://www.alissawilkinson.com">Alissa Wilkinson</a> founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years. She now teaches writing and humanities a <a href="http://www.tkc.edu">The Ki

Looking In at the Americans

Sep 28, 2009 1 min read

Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans is recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York [http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={1FD57D4D-FE17-41FA-9025-E2667E36AD27}] . We ran an article

Best things to eat, ever

Sep 24, 2009 1 min read travel

From The Observer: The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them [http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/13/best-foods-in-the-world]. > From cake, steak and tapas,

Facts, Errors, and the Kindle

Sep 23, 2009 1 min read books Literature Technology

From More Intelligent Life: Facts, Errors, and the Kindle [http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/anthony-gottlieb/facts-errors-and-kindle] . > Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as

Zappos: Happy Feet

Sep 22, 2009 1 min read online retailing shopping The New Yorker zappos

From the New Yorker: Happy Feet [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/14/090914fa_fact_jacobs]. > At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in hushed, pastel-carpeted salons, with salesmen

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Sep 21, 2009 1 min read

From the New York Times: Michael Pollan on Big Food vs. Big Insurance [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?_r=1]. > According to the Centers for Disease Control