Mark Blankenship joins me to talk about Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge.

Since there’s some baseball talk happening in the Vine these days, I’ll join in with a question for you and the other baseball-loving Tomato Nationals.

This is a different letter than what you usually publish.
Why do you think baseball is losing its status as the National Pastime?

Butterflies aren’t always free.

Again With This, Emmy oversights, and the Girls’ Bike Club’s sad prescience.

Managers, Watchmen, and more stuff I’m thinking about.

My esteemed colleagues Paul Quinn and John Ramos and I didn’t arrive at the idea of ranking managerial hotness first…but I suspect the Hotness Council is the first to compare a Brewers skipper to both …

I’ve been working as a freelance writer for about a decade now.

The French Connection has kept itself in the classic-films discussion for the better part of five decades based on a single car chase.

A good friend of mine was recently in a difficult situation where he was unsure how to respond.