Kelefa Sanneh

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh

Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung community of listeners, he was known as Pat the Bunny, an anarchist punk troubadour from Vermont whose desperate—and sometimes bleakly funny—folk songs were about young people who wanted to smash the system, although they often settled for getting smashed themselves.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Kelefa Sanneh

José Andrés on feeding the needy, and feeding the soul You don't typically find chef José Andrés at home. Often, he's wherever there's trouble, feeding survivors of wars or natural disaster. He's founder of World Central Kitchen, the 15-year-old non-profit. But here, outside Washington, where he and his wife raised three daughters, the world-renowned chef is making me a Tortilla Española (or Spanish omelette).

2 months ago | aol.com | Kelefa Sanneh

The New Yorker, the beloved weekly magazine, is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday. I have been a staff writer at the magazine since 2008, and Bruce Diones has been at The New Yorker since, well, not quite since the beginning. "1978," he said. "I was in the cradle. They left me on the doorstep and I came."Asked his title, Diones replied , "I don't really have one. I aid and abet all the crimes that happen here.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Kelefa Sanneh

The New Yorker, the beloved weekly magazine, is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday. I have been a staff writer at the magazine since 2008, and Bruce Diones has been at The New Yorker since, well, not quite since the beginning. "1978," he said. "I was in the cradle. They left me on the doorstep and I came."Asked his title, Diones replied , "I don't really have one. I aid and abet all the crimes that happen here.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Kelefa Sanneh

Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.” It was a sentimental show, leavened by sharp, self-conscious dialogue; the titular character, Dawson Leery, was a film buff who worked at a video store, which meant that he could analyze the show’s various narrative devices at least as well as viewers could.