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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

Laura and Rose, and the Little House

Aug 5, 2009 1 min read rose wilder The New Yorker

From The New Yorker: Wilder Women [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/08/10/090810crat_atlarge_thurman] . > William Holtz points out that Laura had been so harried by poverty and

Broken Windows and Internet Civility

Oct 24, 2008 5 min read Megan Meier New York City subway Technology The New Yorker

Earlier this year, on my way to work, I opened the latest issue of the New Yorker and was drawn into an article entitled “Friend Game”, which covers the MySpace-related suicide of thirteen-year-old

Never Underestimate The Power Of Cartoons

Oct 24, 2008 7 min read Visual Art Matthew Diffee political cartoons Taylor Jones The New Yorker

I started reading the newspaper as a child when, every morning, I would pour myself a bowl of cereal and then wrestle the Extra section of the Roanoke Times and World News from