Jason Gots
Associate Editor, Big Think
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February 21, 2012
Your shoulders bunch. Your jaw clenches. “No!No!No!No!” screams a voice inside your head. "Hello!!" you hear yourself saying – just a little too brightly – "How are you?"
This sort of reaction...
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February 20, 2012
Why the dark blue suits? The white shirts. The monochromatic ties. Would the nation have reeled if George W. Bush had sported a ten gallon cowboy hat all the time - and not just for publicity shot...
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February 17, 2012
What's the Big Idea?
The “tortured writer” has been Woody Allen-ized into a kind of embarrassing caricature. We picture him in a bare studio apartment, hunched over at a collapsing, secondhand...
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February 17, 2012
Winning Entries to be Selected by Nathan Englander
PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
UPDATE, 2/21/12
Many, many thanks to all who contributed, ...
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February 14, 2012
Valentine’s Day is second only to Christmas/New Year’s among holidays whose joyousness or misery depends entirely on the quality of your relationships.
(There is, of course a third category of...
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About Jason Gots
Jason is a New York-ish writer and editor. Before joining Big Think, he worked at Random House Children's Books. Since 2005, he has been writing and editing picture books and stories for English language learners, working with publishers in Seoul, Korea. During the same period, Jason taught English at two community colleges in New York City, working with arguably the most diverse student body in the world. Jason is an avid foodie, homebrewer, and devourer of the written word. He is also father to a bright, friendly four year old who loves to sing.