10 episodes

Your Unofficial Guide to the Sunday Paper of Record

Somebody Swiped My Sunday Times‪!‬ email@swipethetimes.com ()

    • Society & Culture

Your Unofficial Guide to the Sunday Paper of Record

    Episode 86

    Episode 86

    White shoes
    Stumpy shoes
    Stinky shoes
    Not discussing Sotomayor
    Mavericks
    Obama
    Blogs

    • 28 min
    Episode 85

    Episode 85

    Obligatory Justice Sotomayor discussion
    In which the new "Metropolitan" section is discussed
    Not a three-quotes-and-its-a-story trend piece but rather the studiously distanced anthropological-in-tone increasingly-we-as-a-society-are-obsessed-about-[insert "trivial" gossipy story here that the writer is actually obsessed about but can't bring him or herself to say it] piece
    Quebec has been providing emotions since 1534 (.pdf if you don't believe me)
    In the era of Obama, we've reached "first [blank]" fatigue when it comes to Tiana
    An anecdote about Annie Oakley, the famous wrap-around sunglasses designer
    I call b******t

    • 38 min
    Episode 84

    Episode 84

    Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama!
    The great suckup
    Swine flu
    Give a little

    • 31 min
    Episode 83

    Episode 83

    Cheap-ass bodega coffee or cheap-ass bodega coffee with an "aura of both urban exotica and blue-collar utility"?
    The greatest intellectuals of our era are using WordStar word processing
    An economic argument for trolls
    Maria Shriver
    I'd be able to hear you if I didn't have this banana in my ear
    The City Section just keeps on keepin' on
    In an age when books are like T-shirts, the Kindle helps you keep your Stephenie Meyer on the DL
    The Styles section takes another stab at the perennial question of whether size matters
    Leaving New York

    • 41 min
    Episode 82

    Episode 82

    Alice Waters meets Maria Full of Grace
    Ye olde economy article
    Sir, your $250,000 sixth-floor walkup third of a bowling alley lane
    Cheap and easy, but so much fun
    Hrm . . . I'm not sure I buy it
    If you can't join 'em, soak 'em
    Who does the television listings anyway? (Slate's Jack Shafer found out.)
    Anal Fissures!
    If you need to cover up something, use a Merkin

    • 45 min
    Episode 81

    Episode 81

    Grab the pitchforks!
    We're getting closer to that big Week in Review piece on how the recession is saving public education
    It's opening day: Kevin Costner, Tyler Kepner's 2009 predictions and the Mets stiff the Little Leagues
    Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and empathy
    A.A. Gill makes a funny
    Berets, burgundy and setting shit on fire
    Three separate stories about the iPhone
    When was the last time you saw an acrostic poem on the cover of the Sunday Magazine?

    • 36 min

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