Peter Rubin
Head Of Publishing at Automattic
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2 days ago |
longreads.com | Peter Rubin
During the pandemic, Forrest Wickman got into birds. So into birds, in fact, that he started noticing when birdcalls in movies didn’t match up with the birds that were actually on screen. And nothing was quite so egregiously mismatched as a particular bird who appears in 2000’s Charlie’s Angels and is definitively not a pygmy nuthatch. Thankfully, Forrest Wickman is as obsessive about the truth as he is about birds, and his curiosity led him down a doozy of a rabbit hole.
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2 weeks ago |
longreads.com | Peter Rubin
Sarah Golibart Gorman wasn’t born on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, but she grew up there—a “come here” rather than a “from here.” Not that any of that mattered years later, when she slid into a booth with her family and ordered drum ribs for the first time. A fascinating look at the underappreciated delicacy of an underappreciated part of the country.
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3 weeks ago |
longreads.com | Peter Rubin
The mass firings at government agencies are still shocking, if not surprising. But for those inside the federal buildings, still trying to uphold their oath (and the rule of law), the emotional toll is all-encompassing. For 1843, one of the embattled employees—who helped prosecute January 6 insurrectionists, no less—describes how it feels inside the Justice Department these days. I lie awake at night going back and forth about what I should do, and have to give myself a pep talk to pull out of it.
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3 weeks ago |
longreads.com | Peter Rubin
With just a few hundred people, the town of Galisteo is probably better known to art fans and film location scouts than it is to most New Mexicans. But that hasn’t stopped 88-year-old force of nature Lucy Lippard from publishing the weekly local paper El Puente de Galisteo for almost three decades. For CJR, Lucy Schiller visits Lippard to find out more about the long-running, nearly single-handed labor of love.
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3 weeks ago |
longreads.com | Peter Rubin
Frank Vera III served in the Air Force. Frank Vera III has health problems. Frank Vera III claims that those health problems trace directly from his time at George Air Force Base, that the U.S. military refuses to take responsibility for any of it, and that the tribe of similarly afflicted veterans he has gathered constitutes proof. Maddie Crowell doesn’t know what to think.
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