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The New Yorker Will Publish Anything John McPhee Writes, No Matter How Tedious
Hamilton Nolan · 01/16/13 10:15AMScientists, of All People, Call Something Boring
Hamilton Nolan · 11/30/10 04:43PMThere Is No Job That Would Not Make a Great Reality Show
Hamilton Nolan · 12/18/09 04:10PMThe Diminishing Returns of the Tiger Woods Story
Hamilton Nolan · 12/16/09 11:04AMBoring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
Hamilton Nolan · 08/19/09 09:17AMLaura Bush's Memoir Worth a Paltry Sum
Hamilton Nolan · 01/06/09 09:21AMHouse Full Of Bloggers Exactly As Cool As You Would Think
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/08 11:47AMWhat's going on in our nation's capital? I'll tell you what: Bloggers! Four young, liberal bloggers occupy a single row house in DC, meaning that a major paper is contractually obliged to cover the phenomenon as a trend. A slow-moving, couch-based trend. We learn that the roommates in "the Flophouse" send IMs to each other when they're all at home; that they write about stuff that goes on the house on their blogs; and that "These bloggers are the cool kids who know they're smart, like some Seth Rogen character with a Ph.D. from Harvard's Kennedy School." Sure! This antisocial scene reminds me of nothing so much as the current incarnation of THIS: