Matt Hartman
The Awl
Durham, NC, United States
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Against Personal Politics –
Once, as a way of summing up his feelings on Che Guevara, my college history professor warned, “All of you wearing Che T-shirts are the first ones he would put against the wall.” I assume he meant to… → Read More
Some Batman Movies, Ranked
I'm as surprised as you are. → Read More
The App-to-Table Restaurant
Despite the seeming multitude of delivery startups buoyed by an ocean of venture capital right now, there are really only two: a platform that allows thousands existing restaurants to get their food to people’s doors (Seamless, UberEats, PostMates, etc.) and a fully integrated machine that produces vast quantities of food in a central commissary then delivers it to people as efficiently as… → Read More
Some Batman Movies, Ranked
I'm as surprised as you are. → Read More
The Airbnb Safe Harbor
A less charitable way to view Airbnb's forthcoming app that will allow neighbors of noisy, inconsiderate, or generally terrible hosts to report them directly to the company is that it will funnel complaints away from the authorities—like, say, in ... → Read More
A History of Future Foodstuffs
It turns out that people don't like to pay for things, even if those things require another human to drive to a cavernous temple to the global supply chain, quickly dash through lanes upon lanes of infinitely varied merchandise like ... → Read More
Job Unoptimized
I have a lot of friends who work in those companies, and they literally encourage me every week to quit my job and do what they’re doing,” said Helana Corda, who teaches sixth graders at a public middle school, ... → Read More
Garden and Gut
Sean Brock’s Husk in Charleston, South Carolina Bullock’s Barbecue has been open since 1952. Located in Durham, North Carolina, a block off of a commercial highway and across from a Coca-Cola bottling plant, you can still find the founder’s son, Tommy, passing to-go containers through the kitchen window every day, surrounded by photos of bygone movie stars and telling anyone who’ll listen about… → Read More
Free Circus
It's hard to fathom living in a world where one cannot witness for himself the downfall of an American icon completed by a grainy, thirty-second video of them being absolutely terrible at sex, but that is what's at stake in ... → Read More
The Oh Well Train
No man is an island except a man who lives in Williamsburg because the L train, his lifeline between Manhattan and home and the parties he is just slightly too old to attend in Bushwick, is definitely going to be ... → Read More
Where to Find the Power in the 'Power Bowl'
A reasonable question: In this, the Year of our Bowl 2016, what truly distinguishes the "power bowl," an artfully curated and composed selection of vegetables which may be pickled or roasted but are certainly beautiful (especially with the right VSCOCam ... → Read More
Where to Find the Power in a 'Power Bowl'
A reasonable question: In this, the Year of our Bowl 2016, what truly distinguishes the "power bowl," an artfully curated and composed selection of vegetables which may be pickled or roasted but are certainly beautiful (especially with the right VSCOCam ... → Read More
Fancy Veggie Burgers I Have Eaten in Restaurants in Recent Months, Ranked
7. Salvation Burger 6. Fritzl's Lunchbox 5. Mile End's Falafel Burger 4. H & F 3. No. 7 Veggie 2. The Nomad 1. Superiority Burger Photo by USDA ... → Read More
Streetcar to Nowhere
Who will ride the mayor's trolley? → Read More
Delivery Interrupted
These grocery delivery startups aren't like that other one, right? → Read More
The Mystery of the Thousand Missing Airbnbs
A couple of months ago, Airbnb released a batch of anonymized data about its hosts in New York City in a bid to show that its community “is made up of hard working families in all five boroughs who, during a time of economic inequality, depend on home sharing as an economic lifeline” and to prove, once and for all, just how transparent Airbnb really was. The illusion of transparency dissolved… → Read More
Carrier, Pigeon
It's natural to wonder how long the subsidies Amazon has so generously provided to our perpetually broke national postal system to deliver approximately forty percent of its packages will last, given that Amazon can't help but to absorb the things ... → Read More
What Was the Author Photo?
An oddity of authorship. → Read More
The Gawker Lunchtime Walkout Is Cancelled, BTW
As of last week, the Gawker editorial union was planning to walk out this Wednesday because management would not negotiate over a guaranteed annual cost of living salary increase—the union had asked for six percent, management offered zero. Well, ... → Read More
All the News That's Affordable to Print
Good news, the New York Times had a higher profit in 2015 than it did in 2014. That extra profit did not come from an increase in revenue as digital finally offset the momentous decline in print—how great would ... → Read More