December 2009
10 posts
The Ten Best Films of 2009
“The Hurt Locker”
“Funny People”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“District 9”
“Up”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“Avatar”
“Adventureland”
“Star Trek”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The Hurt Locker” was this year’s best film, by a wide gulf. Kathryn Bigelow’s film...
The Twelve Best Albums of 2009
Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca”
Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest”
Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
Fanfarlo “Reservoir”
P.O.S. “Never Better”
Handsome Furs “Face Control”
Kid Cudi “Man on the Moon: The End of Day”
M. Ward “Hold Time”
Megafaun “Gather, Form and Fly”
White...
“There’s no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation...”
– Finally got around to reading Taibbi’s latest. Even more than usual, it’s a must-read.
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“For a long time, he communicated exclusively by answering machine. I would leave...”
– Deborah Treisman, DFW’s long time fiction editor at The New Yorker, on editing DFW posthumously. This particular pull is in response to a question asking how the two communicated.
