- 10 best new podcasts of the year. The Alec Baldwin one is really good. I heard the one he did with Chris Rock and Fred Armisen.
- “An amusing map from 1927, showing which areas of California could be used to film movies that you wanted to look like other parts of the world.”
- “Reader, I married her.“
- Top 10 most angsty characters in Fiction.
- Two good things on Tablet this week: one on Russian adoptions, the other on the Israeli-built Parliament building in Sierra Leone
- Jerry Seinfeld’s creation process
- “How I discovered the secret to happiness“
- Hogmanay in Edinburgh
- Restoring a dresser
- I can’t wait for summer
- The lost art of the walk, on the street where we stayed in New Orleans
- My favorite longform thing I read last year: P.J. O’Rourke in Afghanistan