“Over time, the central tension or mainspring that develops in Bourdain’s writing is an almost standard-issue artist’s paradox; he is an aesthete with a bone-deep love of order and belonging — mise en place is a frequently recurring theme” - Fiction Confidential (Maria Bustillos for Eater)
Gulfoss, Iceland
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“Like the body itself, a home is something both looked at and lived in, a duality that in neither case I have managed to reconcile. I retain the belief that other people’s homes are real where mine is a fabrication, just as I imagine others to live inner lives less flawed than my own.” - Making House: Notes on Domesticity (Rachel Cusk for The New York Times)
“It’s the entire Michigan-football experience that captivates, however. The Big House has always been the largest football venue for any team, college or pro, in the country. It holds more than a hundred and seven thousand people—twenty-five thousand more than the largest stadium for a pro team, the MetLife Stadium, shared by the Giants and the Jets in New York.” - The Mania of Michigan Football (Robin Wright for The New Yorker)
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