The Non-Thing Gift Guide — Gifts to Get People Who Have Everything
Buy something they’ll use and love—but won’t end up in the trash one day.
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Buy something they’ll use and love—but won’t end up in the trash one day.
While its sister sites shuffled through owners and staff revolts over the past half-decade, Gawker was viewed as a poisoned asset — the result of both its late-in-life legal problems and its reputation in more staid quarters as a violator of journalistic norms. (I always liked Hamilton Nolan’s take: “Most journalism jobs exist on a continuum between audience and freedom. If you want a lot of people to pay attention to you, you work at a place where the individual writer’s voice is completely subsumed into the institutional voice. If you want complete freedom to write whatever the hell...