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"Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises"

Recent NYT Food Articles I Enjoyed

1. Menu Psychology
2. Sous Vide
3. Chicago Restaurants
4. Creamy Chicken Pate Recipe
5. Ben's Chili Bowl in DC

Two More New Yorker Profiles

1. John Mackey (Whole Foods)
2. James Cameron

Some Recent Vanity Fair Articles

Although the style is fluffy these are worth reading

1. Goldman Sachs
2. Large Hadron Collider
3. British Aristocracy
4. Meryl Streep

Great wired article on the fall of the guy who created duke nukem

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This reminds me of the documentary stone reader (not sure if I've mentioned on here before)--about writers who turn out one great novel and can't duplicate that success (focuses on forgotten writer Dow Mossman... really interesting).

Also this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert touches on the same subject--how our culture has moved to put too much pressure on individuals to be creative/inspired/productive rather than thinking of creativity as partially a random process.

Longreads

Links to longer-format writing like this David Foster Wallace story, and other new yorker, harpers, vanity fair, etc articles--has things I otherwise would've missed for sure

Interview with (the late) Paul Samuelson Summer 09 -- Atlantic Monthly Blogs

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