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The Modernist Society Returns!

Jason Mojica · August 15, 2019August 23, 2019

After a ten year hiatus, The Modernist Society returns in podcast form. The Modernist Society began in 2003 as a DJ night in Chicago, became a debaucherous salon in DC, and comes to you now as a podcast wherever you happen to be. Each month, hosts Jason Mojica and Eric Ottens bring you intimate conversations with practitioners of …

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Meet Kim Jong Un’s Unauthorized Biographer

Jason Mojica · June 11, 2019August 16, 2019

Anna Fifield has written a deeply-sourced, rigorously researched portrait of one of the most elusive–and ruthless–leaders on the world stage. Few books about North Korea could rightfully be called “page-turners,” but Anna Fifield’s The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un, is one of them. In it, Fifield has painstakingly reconstructed …

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The best journalism book of 2019 came out in 2018

Jason Mojica · May 31, 2019August 16, 2019

Charlie LeDuff’s Sh*tshow! is as much a critique of the news media as it is a portrait of the United States during a period of significant change. The dog ate my homework. I should have published something about Charlie LeDuff’s book, Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing and the Ratings Are Great, a year ago when it first came …