Posts tagged as How To
John McPhee: "Who Could Tell What Might Happen?"
Why write about anything? In the print edition of today's New Yorker, John McPhee discusses rambling and thrashing his way into profile-writing.
How to Deal with Enormous Dying Bugs in Your Apartment
In which we give advice to newcomers to New York City. READ MORE
How to Fucking Vote
It's the first Tuesday in November, so you know what that means? That's right: it's time to fucking vote. READ MORE
Case Studies in Successful Self-Publishing: "To Slow Down the Time"
To Slow Down The Time is an illustrated collection of short stories, written by Matthew Allard. Each of the stories was inspired by an illustration by Ian Dingman, who works widely as a professional illustrator and as a fine artist. The book was produced in two editions. The first was a hand-bound limited edition of 100 books, priced at $35 each. That edition sold out in a week, and a paperback print-on-demand edition was created. READ MORE
For Man's Benefit: A Woman Explains How to Throw a Dinner Party
The proliferation of celebrity chefs on TV has produced a general tizz around the idea of having people over to dinner, because the constant sight of all that fancy cooking is liable to induce feelings of inadequacy in nearly anyone. But consider that even when suave Euros like, say, Nigella Lawson or Jamie Oliver are trying to be all chummy and show you how easy everything is, that breezy insouciance is owing to the fact that none of them ever washes a dish, forgets where the grater is, or runs out of wineglasses and/or money. More to the point, if they accidentally incinerate something, they get to do it over again, offscreen, and no one's the wiser. So I thought I might pass on a few dinner-party-throwing insights, only from a normal person with no cohort of food-styling elves. READ MORE
How I Fought Bedbugs And Won
It started with three little red dots, an Orion's belt on my arm. "Spider bites," I told myself. But out of curiosity, I asked my roommate whether she had any bites too. READ MORE
Yeah, That Thing About How To Roll Up Your Pants?
"'As cropped pants have become such a style, this is an easy way to get around shortening your pants by three inches,' said Josh Peskowitz, the style editor of Esquire.com, who had rolled up his pants that very morning. 'It's noncommittal.'" READ MORE
A Handy Guide: Notes Toward A Genre Movement
I know you're bursting with assorted creative juices, but let's face it: your masterpiece is likely to end up on a garbage barge where not even famished seagulls will peck at its fearless yet wholly inedible vision of this world we call ‘real.' Why? Because you tried to go it alone! Nobody who tackled their craft with brains and passion and monastic discipline, aspiring to be the lone inventor of something splendidly next, ever got further than, like, the theory of relativity. So just stop thinking outside the box-that is no path to glory in the year 20now. Instead, think inside another box that hasn't been assembled yet. READ MORE
