There are rants and there are rants. This here is a rant.
As Jezebel notes elsewhere, this bomb-throwing freelancer revenge rant burns bridges with admirable abandon. Been a while since I’ve read one quite so fun...
Tag: Journalism
Stuff You Wish Would Go In Your Book But Won’t
Last year I talked to a primatologist in his mid-80s, still sharp, still in his office most days, a pleasant spot in California, surrounded by his books and by ...
Why I Moved My Blog From Wired
Apologia: This is a bit inside-baseball, but as quite a few people have asked me what’s the full skinny on why I moved my blog from WIRED, I thought it be...
How to Place Rose Petals on Your Lover’s Skin (& Write About Science)
The Guardian and the Wellcome Trust have been holding a science-writing prize contest lately, and to accompany it The Guardian has been running a superb series ...
Three Questions for Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer was one of the first writers I befriended as I went into science writing. I did so before he published his first book. We became friends, blogged b...
The Atlantic, Scientology, and the Theft of Credibility
At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Scien...
Don’t Step in That Sh*t: How the GMO-Study Authors Played the Media
Last week a small group of scientists and journalists signed a secret pact to do a bad, bad, really bad thing to science, journalism, and everyone that depends ...
Why the Longform Boom? It’s the Data, Stupid
Over at Forbes, Lewis DVorkin, who once ran big bits of AOL, has written a fine smart post on the boom in longform stories on the web. The longform surge, both ...
Rebecca Skloot on Writing HeLa, Structure, & Her Own Younger Self
When I first read Rebecca Skloot’s’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks last February, I, like millions of others who have read it, found myself en...
Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing
Today’s a good day: The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American S...