If you the have time you might want to look at the photographic work of Robbie Cooper. His series on people matched with their online avatars is stunning.
If you the have time you might want to look at the photographic work of Robbie Cooper. His series on people matched with their online avatars is stunning.
“What publications have you worked for,” someone once asked, I think. They would have used a question mark, but the inquiry, to me, was rhetorical, since they were jumping on a moving bus at the time. Anyway, I recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker on Iranian student demonstrators who spread word about revolutionary activities using the commemorative teaspoon markets, and another piece for the Economist on how the song Happy Birthday had its genesis in a line repeated perpetually by an asylum inmate, and another for the Times on how the movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince may have been secretly sponsored by the British National Party, and another for the Christian Science Monitor on controversy over the fact that use of the word “Genesis” accrues royalties to the band Genesis, rather than to publishers of the Bible, and a profile for Time on a controversial evangelical preacher who recently admitted that for 37 years he’d secretly been saying “Penises” instead of “Genesis”. This spot has cost me $487.00. Am I worried. (Rhetorical.) Must get my bus. You can find my published stories ...
here.
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