It is below freezing in Pittsburgh today, with wind chills in the teens. I’ve spent much of the day indoors,…
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Damon Young
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Damon Young is a founder of VSB, and the author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker (Ecco/HarperCollins), which won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor
“It could be worse” seems to have overtaken the many versions of “I’m fine” on the list of the most common responses…
A funny thing about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy when compared to the other rap albums that exist in the space…
I hadn’t realized exactly how thoroughly I’d been influenced by the onslaught of anti-turkey propaganda until making…
Jackson was walking down the street, headed to The Container Store when he saw his friend Timothee approaching. He…
My parents and I used to play a game where one of us would think of some ridiculous dare, assign an arbitrarily low…
A Letter to the Dickheads Who Love to Tell You When People You Don't Know Are Talking Shit About You
The list of things that I don’t know is boundless. Endless. Infinite. There are so many things that I don’t know…
It’s morning in America, as we bask in the afterglow of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. winning the presidency after a…
I haven’t yet decided if I’m going to eat the leftover tacos from last night’s dinner order. It’s the simplest but…
“Did you see us?” called a mysterious and haunting chorus behind me while I was walking down the street. I was…
If you extract yourself from your body and the present and view America as a single, 401-year-long continuum, the…
When the dust settles and a winner of the presidential election is declared tomorrow night or some time in 2023, the…
When attempting to explain, during a university-sponsored book talk a few weeks ago, the difference between truth…
When first hearing about Kate Rubins, the NASA astronaut who’s currently in a space station 200 miles above Earth…
Pictured is a buttermilk pancake and a brussels sprouts bowl. They’re both from a place called The Square Cafe,…
So Inside Out is a Pixar movie about a kid named Riley and mostly about the intersecting and competing emotions…
It was a month ago, I think. Maybe two. Maybe last week. Time is a flat circle. I was on a Zoom call with either the…
Do you remember this guy? If you’re my age (41) or older, you probably do. I’m sure Ice Cube does, because he’s old…