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Feb
18
Episodes: Friday mailbag (Feb. 17)

Episodes: Friday mailbag (Feb. 17)

Welcome to Friday mailbag, where every week, I answer your questions as best I can. Some weeks, I will do
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Feb
16
Episodes: Beware marketing

Episodes: Beware marketing

A couple of years ago, I got into a big argument with a friend and fellow critic over what I
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Feb
14
Episodes: How to write a freelance pitch

Episodes: How to write a freelance pitch

In the last seven or eight months, it's become very popular to pitch Vox Culture for freelance articles,
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Feb
11
Episodes: Big cats, ranked

Episodes: Big cats, ranked

Do you remember Zoobooks? Maybe you don't. I occasionally come across people who are vaguely familiar with the
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Feb
09
Episodes: Errata

Episodes: Errata

Hey, we've got a correction: When I said in Monday's newsletter with no equivocation that Master
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Feb
04
Episodes: Common lengths for TV seasons, ranked

Episodes: Common lengths for TV seasons, ranked

One of the big debates we're having in the TV world right now is how many episodes is
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Feb
02
Episodes: By implication

Episodes: By implication

My natural inclination as a critic is to try to hook whatever I'm watching up to some larger
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Jan
27
Episodes: Every song on Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen, ranked

Episodes: Every song on Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen, ranked

A couple of weeks ago, a meme was floating around Facebook that asked what were 10 albums you loved as
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Jan
26
Episodes: Tomorrow belongs to me

Episodes: Tomorrow belongs to me

Late in her life, I got to know my biological grandmother. She had immigrated to the United States in the
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Jan
21
Episodes: Little Gidding

Episodes: Little Gidding

(The first class we had after Sept. 11, my British Literature professor read us a long section from T.S.
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