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My name is Warren Spector. I am astonished to say I'm 60 years old. [Laughs.] I am in Austin, Texas, and despite many opportunities to leave for opportunities that were pretty incredible, I'm stuck here and you'd have to blast me out. Actually, I'm pleasurably...

Nicholas Car. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains.  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010. (276 pages) Prologue: The Watchdog and the Thief What both enthusiast and skeptic miss is what McLuhan saw: that in the long run a medium...

“You know,” observed a recent dinner guest, glancing around our living room between sips of his digestif, “there are a lot of strong women in this apartment.” I follow his gaze toward the massive tangerine-on-yellow She-Ra painting that anchors one...

Alec Nevala-Lee | Longreads | February 2017 | 28 minutes (7,744 words) I. L. Ron Hubbard published over four million words of fiction in his lifetime, but his most famous story consists of just a few handwritten pages. Before their contents were leaked...

KW We did California for a few months in 1999 when I had the residency at CCAC (California College of Arts and Crafts), the residency was called “Capp Street Projects.” My daughter, Octavia, was fifteen months by the time we got there...