https://mariabustillos.com Maria Bustillos Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:09:13 +0000 https://mariabustillos.com en http://mariabustillos.com/Contact Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:09:13 +0000 Maria Bustillos 435045 HOME WRITING CONTACT / ABOUT about me I’m a writer, editor and information activist focused on digital ownership, library rights, and press freedom; I am the founding editor of Popula and co-founder of Flaming Hydra and the&nbsp;Brick House Cooperative.Brick House is a collective that operates several publications including Flaming Hydra and Popula. The goal of the organization is to create sustainable, resilient publications that are&nbsp;resistant to outside influence. Member publications, including Brick House flagship Flaming Hydra, pool resources to publish quality independent journalism, criticism, comics, essays and podcasts. Brick House is also developing BRIET, a system whereby libraries can buy permanently-ownable ebooks and other digital media that can be owned and loaned to their patrons forever.I live in Oakland and Scotland. Some things I love are:&nbsp; textiles, alt-rock, Lamu, 18th-century literature, the Fowler brothers, Gilbert and Sullivan, alabaster lamps,&nbsp;Zoolander, Jay Ward Studios, P.G. Wodehouse, Cecil Beaton, Anita Loos, and Tom Stoppard.&nbsp; (semi-retired these days, working 40 hours per month) say hello email me at maria | at | popula | dot | com Bluesky at @mariabustillos.bsky.social HOME WRITING CONTACT / ABOUT about me I’m a writer, editor and information activist focused on digital ownership, library rights, and press... http://mariabustillos.com/Writing Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:29:59 +0000 Maria Bustillos 434798 H O M E W R I T I N G C O N T A C T S E L E C T E D&nbsp; &nbsp;W O R K &nbsp; The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans &nbsp; Columbia Journalism Review Corporate consolidation threatens the broad availability of books A Book Is a Book (Except When It’s an E-book)&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Corporations won the first battle in their war on libraries—or did they? Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Nation On the megapublishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive STAT: the vexed question of “proof” in clinical research&nbsp; &nbsp;Longreads Medicine, placebos, and certainty ChatGPT Can’t Think, But It Can Lie&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Doesn’t get jokes and lies like a rug BuzzFeed’s Epic Fail Is Bad News&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Media magnates don’t like assets they cannot fully control The Center Held Just Fine&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaJoan Didion, first lady of neoliberalismPumping Ryan&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaA surprising chat with the photographer who took the infamous Paul Ryan gym photos You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula(It’s not real.) MSNBC Public Editor column&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review News and the Man Bourdain Confidential&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Popula A long afternoon at a bar with Anthony Bourdain Mastodon is Fun&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Time to leave Twitter (especially for journalists) The Bitcoin Boom&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Pub. April 1, 2013, when one BTC cost like $100 Yes, Crypto Is Crashing Again. Blockchain Will Survive&nbsp; &nbsp;New York Times Nine years later, a sad reboot of the story of the internet Inside David Foster Wallace’s Self-Help Library&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl Things I learned about Wallace from his collected papers at the Ransom Center It’s Adventure Time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Popula&nbsp; (originally at The Awl) At Cartoon Network with the makers of Adventure Time Art, Commerce and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony&nbsp; &nbsp;Longreads Friendship is complicated The Chekhov-Saunders Humanity Kit&nbsp; &nbsp;Longreads (available on Wayback Machine only) I took an MFA class at Syracuse with George Saunders, and so can you Coloring Outside the Lines: Racecraft and Inequality in American Life&nbsp; &nbsp;Los Angeles Review of BooksThe best book about race relations I’ve ever read The incalculable&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaOn my mom’s death, the day of the Capitol insurrectionHarry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children’s Club&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl J.K. Rowling’s true colors were glaring, even back then How the Las Vegas Review-Journal Unmasked Its Owners&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Sheldon Adelson failed to keep the secret of the newsroom’s ownership from its own reporters&nbsp; <img width="1433" height="808" width_o="1433" height_o="808" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6d0c92f917006a026265ea66ddcf9ea3523fb88af81e5a93fa0cdf6604015700/1970OED.PNG" data-mid="1261550" border="0" data-scale="71"/> Letter of Recommendation: The Oxford English Dictionary&nbsp; &nbsp;New York Times Magazine A R C H I V I N G &nbsp;&nbsp; L I B R A R Y&nbsp; &nbsp;R I G H T S&nbsp; D I G I T A L&nbsp; &nbsp;O W N E R S H I P&nbsp; In a time of increasing attacks on press and academic freedom, my latest work is focused largely on digital ownership and library rights, both as a writer and as a member of the Brick House Cooperative. A Book Is a Book (Except When It’s an E-book)&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Archiving official documents as an act of radical journalism&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Access to Journalism Is a Human Right&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Erasing History&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Republic Amazon’s Endangered Species: World Culture&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Sell This Book!&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation What Kind of Writer Accuses Libraries of Stealing?&nbsp; &nbsp; Popula Buy Paper Books&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula You Can't Buy These Books &nbsp; The Nation P O L I T I C SG O V E R N M E N TT H E&nbsp; &nbsp;L A W Our Billionaire Philanthropists &nbsp; The AwlWhat It’s Like to Get a National Security Letter: A Talk with Brewster Kahle &nbsp; The New YorkerSumnerdämmerung&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker ICYMI: Republicans Heart Putin&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Secret of Politics is Death!&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Two Thousand Eight&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Failures of Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged and Our Tanked Economy&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Democrats just ceded economic justice to Donald Trump&nbsp; &nbsp;The Los Angeles Times Fill In the Gap &nbsp; Harper’s What is Shari'a Law?&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlInequality in California&nbsp; Capital and MainAn exchange with VP Marketing and Communications of the SV Community Foundation&nbsp; Pacific StandardColoring Outside the Lines: Racecraft and Inequality in American Life&nbsp; &nbsp;The Los Angeles Review of BooksDriving the Five&nbsp; &nbsp;AeonLos Angeles, April 29 – May 4, 1992 &nbsp; The AwlOur Reflection in the N.S.A.’s Prism&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker J O U R N A L I S M BuzzFeed’s Epic Fail Is Bad News&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation Archiving official documents as an act of radical journalism&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review The Harper’s Letter: Please, Seriously? (with David Roth)&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula MSNBC Public Editor column&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Don’t Save Journalism&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Service Journalism: Josh Barro Stands Up for Newsroom Bosses&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Kyiv Post’s Brian Bonner on Why Silence is Not Golden&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Dismediation, revisited&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaHow the Las Vegas Review-Journal Unmasked Its Owners&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker From Goldenballs to Gawker&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia, a Journal of Literature and Art Post-truth and the press&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Why Gawker, and gossip, are good &nbsp; The Los Angeles Times How Much Did We Need This Blasphemy? On the Charlie Hebdo Assassinations&nbsp; &nbsp;Gawker Mastodon is Idiot-Proofed at the Top Popula Mastodon is Fun &nbsp; Popula Toots Sweet&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Predictions for Nieman Lab: 2017: “It’s true, I saw it on Facebook” 2016: News Isn’t for the Billionaire Few 2015: A Return to Subscriptions 2014: News as a Dynamic, Living Conversation S C I E N C E T E C H N O L O G Y T H E&nbsp; &nbsp;I N T E R N E T ChatGPT Can’t Think, But It Can Lie&nbsp; &nbsp;The Nation The Smallness of Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp; &nbsp;Medium Pascal’s Climate&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl Free Speech for Whom? Give You One Guess&nbsp; &nbsp;The Daily Beast Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker STAT: the vexed question of “proof” in clinical research &nbsp; Longreads Was Aaron Swartz Stealing?&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlSTEM vs. The Humanities, 1959 Edition&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Carousel of Progress&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula U MAD??? Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, and the Failure of Invective &nbsp; The AwlThe Next Google: It’s Like Google, But For Search&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlMarc Andreessen and the Inevitability of Catastrophic Ideas&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlLittle Brother Is Watching You&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker How High-def is Changing Your Brain, and Driving the Prop Master Crazy&nbsp; &nbsp;BloombergHow Video Game Deaths Help Us Live&nbsp; &nbsp;KotakuPlease Kill Me (Eventually) &nbsp; &nbsp;VICE MotherboardWhen Every Crazy Person On The Internet Is Mad At You&nbsp; &nbsp;BuzzFeed Not Fade Away: on living, dying and the digital afterlife&nbsp; &nbsp;The Verge B L O C K C H A I N C R Y P T O C U R R E N C Y You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Yes, Crypto Is Crashing Again. Blockchain Will Survive&nbsp; &nbsp;New York Times Zuck Bucks Suxxxxx&nbsp; &nbsp;Hmm Daily The Bitcoin Boom &nbsp; The New Yorker Web3 Is a Return to the Internet’s Wild Spirit&nbsp; &nbsp;CoindeskThe Great VC Coin Rush: At The Bitcoin Convention&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl Craig Wright, Bitcoin’s Latest “Inventor”&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Reddit’s Satoshi Nakamoto Skeptics&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker The Future of Bitcoin&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker What Does Bloomberg’s ‘Crypto Story’ Mean for Crypto?&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Civil-Backed News Site Stores Full Article on Ethereum Blockchain&nbsp; &nbsp;Coindesk Decentralized Journalism: A conversation with Maria Bustillos&nbsp; &nbsp;Postlight Bringing the Blockchain to Journalism &nbsp; Cointalk with Jay Kang and Aaron Lammer Boom Times&nbsp; &nbsp;a blog at Popula B U S I N E S S Wells Fargo: The Robber Bank&nbsp; &nbsp;Slate Place Your Bets: Oh Wait, You Can’t&nbsp; &nbsp;Buzzfeed The Problem with the Financial Services Elite&nbsp; &nbsp;The BillfoldFriendship is Complicated: Art, Commerce and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony&nbsp; &nbsp;LongreadsPeter Thiel’s Familiar Villainy &nbsp; New York Magazine The Poverty of Jeff Bezos&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaVenture Capital’s Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College &nbsp; The AwlThe Vicious Trademark Battle Over ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl O N&nbsp; &nbsp;T H E&nbsp; &nbsp;L A T E A N T H O N Y&nbsp; &nbsp;B O U R D A I N&nbsp; <img width="657" height="618" width_o="657" height_o="618" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/42b76010dfea92596a64d1c7d8c2fd3e0061cff9f343289bd53f9ba006b4baab/lester.PNG" data-mid="1261389" border="0" data-scale="58"/> Bourdain was a magnificent Twitterer. I was very lucky to have gotten to hang out with him, just the one time. <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/759723b8fe361548837f87f3cd9d1f7b8c95ad47d6801b033b7cd68453828f0c/IMAG35261.png" data-mid="1261473" border="0" data-scale="58"/> Bourdain Confidential&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Fiction Confidential&nbsp; &nbsp;EaterBourdain’s novels are most revealing. ‘Roadrunner’ and the dismal search for the ‘Real Bourdain’&nbsp; &nbsp;Eater A slick hagiography. Who Knows Anthony Bourdain?&nbsp; &nbsp;Eater A review of Bourdain: The Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever A podcast with Manoush Zomorodi, featuring excerpts from original interview tapeDozens of Bourdain’s friends and associates contributed to the audiobook of Laurie Woolever’s kaleidoscopic collage, Bourdain: The Oral Biography, each of us reading our own parts B O O K S Myriam Gurba Is Not an AI&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s Supremacist&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker We and Orwell &nbsp; Popula Don’t Blame American Dirt&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Artist is the Art&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Marshall McLuhan, Superstar &nbsp; Nieman Lab The Poetry of Ally Sheedy: A Look Back&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl Jessica Crispin’s Why I Am Not a Feminist&nbsp; &nbsp;The Los Angeles Review of Books The Faulkner Truthers&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl What George Orwell, Henry Miller and John Waters Taught Me About What To Read Next&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker By Anonymous: Can a Writer Escape Vulnerability?&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Robert Hughes: 1938 - 2012&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl Romance Novels, The Last Great Bastion Of Underground Writing&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlJonathan Franzen, Come Join Us!&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Love, a Cad, a City: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. &nbsp; The Awl Reading Writers I Can’t Stand&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Abnegation (on Tom Bissell’s Magic Hours) &nbsp; The Los Angeles Review of Books The Great, Forgotten Sci-Fi Novel About The End Of The World (with David Roth)&nbsp; The Awl Psychotic jest and infinite reactions: How David Foster Wallace didn’t invent the Internet’s voice&nbsp; &nbsp;Nieman Lab Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, by David Lipsky&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl The Chekhov-Saunders Humanity Kit&nbsp; &nbsp;Longreads Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlLetter of Recommendation: The Oxford English Dictionary&nbsp; &nbsp;New York Times Magazine Rising Together: A Corrective to Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men &nbsp; The Los Angeles Review of Books How Staying Small Helps New Directions Publish Great Books&nbsp; &nbsp;The New Yorker Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun &nbsp; The AwlCurses! The birth of the bleep and modern American censorship&nbsp; &nbsp;The Verge F I L M T E L E V I S I O N The Menu Don’t Look Up Booksmart Barb and Star /The Devil Wears Prada Blade Runner 2049 Inception The End Of The Tour Mad Max: Fury Road Going Clear The Hollywood Life of Walter Mitty The Look of SilenceThe Artist“You need to calm down”Sex and The City IIHarry Potter and the Deathly HallowsEat, Pray, Love / Life During Wartime The Master (with David Roth)A Dangerous Method (with David Roth)To the Wonder (with David Roth) Bee and PuppyCat My Little Pony Avatar C U L T U R E&nbsp; &nbsp;( M I S C . ) Views of the World from 9th Avenue&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula Stars and Sceptres&nbsp; &nbsp;Aeon On Speaking Spanish: A Conversation with Myriam Gurba&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula The Empire of Harmlessness: Hello Kitty at 40 &nbsp; Gawker Luxury Interiors&nbsp; &nbsp;PopulaLess Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Apple&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlThis Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s Supremacist &nbsp; The New YorkerThe first dish ever cooked on television: remembering Marcel Boulestin&nbsp; &nbsp;EaterSoul Food: Cookbooks as Literature&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlOur Week With Marilyn&nbsp; (with David Roth)&nbsp; The Awl Ruling Class Superfriends&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula I N T E R V I E W S Brewster Kahle Ashley Feinberg Frank Rich Phil Donahue Anthony Bourdain Richie Nakano Jia Tolentino and Diana Moskovitz Astra Taylor Teju Cole Kaiser Kuo Wilfred Chan José Andrés Faiz Shakir George Saunders (I) George Saunders (II) Barbara EplerrmsDavid LipskyTom BissellHamilton NolanCarol Channing and Justin Vivian BondDavid LoweryTracy FullertonJackie CollinsEJ Johnson E S S A Y SPipo, pelota and the lessons of a long-ago life&nbsp; &nbsp;ESPNThe Black Void of the Moon&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlTrinity&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlThe Question&nbsp; &nbsp;The AwlThe Man is Everywhere: I Was a Disneyland Grad Night Chaperone &nbsp; The Awl F I C T I O NLot 51&nbsp; &nbsp;The Paris Review H U M O ROMG Jeff Bezos Has Asked Me to Be His Accountant!&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula What Is On the Bookshelves at Puck?&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula On Discovering That the Kids Have Drunk Nearly All the Scotch&nbsp; &nbsp;The Awl The Los Angeles Review of Cups &nbsp; Los Angeles Review of BooksBehold a Pale Little Pony: Watching the RNC&nbsp; &nbsp;Los Angeles Review of BooksHope is the Thing With Fur excerpted from the book, Cat is Art Spelled Wrong Annals of Smart People Throughout History&nbsp; &nbsp;Popula B O N U S 135 pieces for The Awl, 2009-2015 P A N E L SP O D C A S T S&nbsp;E T C . Publisher Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Puts the Future of Book Ownership in Question&nbsp; WDET Decentralized Journalism &nbsp; Postlight Major Publishers Want to Shut Down Digital Lending&nbsp; &nbsp;Tech Won’t Save Us, with Paris Marx In conversation with Brewster Kahle&nbsp; &nbsp;New York Society Library&nbsp; Post-truth and the press&nbsp; &nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review Bleep! with Chris Berube&nbsp; &nbsp;99% Invisible Building an Unbreakable Media Company&nbsp; &nbsp;Everything I’ve Learned, with Mark ArmstrongPolitics and the Media&nbsp; &nbsp;TNR Live Web3 and Metaverse Impacts on Journalism with Emily Bell, ISOJ 2022 Austin Bringing the Blockchain to Journalism &nbsp; Cointalk, with Jay Kang and Aaron Lammer On lifestyle modifications that help MS patients–and how the medical establishment resists them,&nbsp;with Madeleine Brand on KCRW’s Press Play Apocalypse Now?, with Christopher Lydon, Nicholson Baker and Mark O'Connell, on WBUR’s Open Source (and&nbsp;a lovely YouTube promo for the above show) DFW, FTW: Life In the Internet Age, in conversation with Christopher Lydon and Paul Ford on WBUR’s Open Source KCRW’s The Mixer with Steve Chiotakis: The Haves and the Have Nots Fates and Furies vs. Bats of the Republic: Verdict as Judge, 2016 Morning News Tournament of Books On Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men with Warren Olney on To the Point With Nicole Sandler on inequality in California, for Capital and Main With Colin McEnroe and Evan Hughes on WNPN, in conversation about David Foster Wallace Racecraft: in conversation with Colin Marshall, Ander Monson and Cord Jefferson, for LA Review of Books (did you seriously make it all the way down here?! wow my grateful thanks for reading.) 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