Jonnelle Marte

Writer, New Yorker. This is a place to share my articles, thoughts and other musings...

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Refreshing to learn a little more about a landmark from my hometown

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Footnotes are starting to vanish from books and appear online instead. Nathan Heller explains why this is a problem:

“If the goal is to retain readers, publishers should show how much books can do. If the object is authority, writers ought to earn it.”

Photograph by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP

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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway (via chelseyphilpot)

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Received these sweet parting gifts from a close NYC friend. Dr. Seuss has never hit closer to home. Excited to begin a new chapter in Washington D.C.

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TIME’s new Mad Men cover on the show that made television history by making history into television, plus behind–the-scene extras from the final season. 

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Cannot. Wait. April 13, get here soon. K, thanks! 

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Judging Obamacare state by state

A look at how state by state enrollment compares to what government officials expected before the law went into effect. Complete with a cool sortable chart. 

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The hipsterfication of taxes

More on my beat of  the crazy things companies and officials do to get young people's attention: H&R Block is using scarves, mustaches and red-rimmed glasses to sell tax prep to millennials SLASH hipsters. Will it work?

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Cash prizes for signing up for Obamacare?

Would a $1,200 prize get you to learn more about Obamacare? In my latest story I write about groups trying to sell the Affordable Care Act to young people in terms they might actually understand: music, jokes and cash. 

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We here at the New York Public Library hope that the first chapter of your 2014 book is off to a great start. Join us at any of our 88 branches to discover the plentiful ways that we can play a part in your Opportunity story.  Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year’s Eve! Times Square New Year’s Eve, ca. 1907. New-York Historical Society

Historically, how have New Yorkers celebrated New Year’s Eve? VIDEO: http://ow.ly/saX5I

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Happy New Year’s Eve all! Enjoy this vintage pic as you finalize your celebration plans.

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Today in 1932: Radio City Music Hall opens with an overabundant variety program that lasts for over six hours and includes guest precision dancers known as the “Roxyettes” the formula is a failure and is soon changed to include a feature film and a shortened stage show.

Arthur W. Grumbine, Radio City Musical Hall, ca. 1937. Photograph. New-York Historical Society

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"It's Christmas time in the city..." Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all!

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Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you’re covering We are now in an era when the I-lost-my-laundry-while-covering-Yalta school of reporting has become an epidemic; when serious books that involve reporting often tend to be suffused with the author’s admiration of his own investigative techniques; when the narcissism of the press almost outstrips the narcissism elsewhere in the country. The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Nora Ephron, “Wallflower at the Orgy”  (via marypilon)

Well said Nora, well said.

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Poetry is part of everything. You can’t have a really good work if it’s not touched by poetry. Poetry manifests itself in millions of ways: as rhythm, metaphor, mood. Sometimes it’s a type of emotional outpouring or necessity that’s not expressed through characters but through feelings. To me, poetry is the tragic sense of man. It’s a way of seeing things in the most complete way, the most absolute, and, to a certain extent, the most perfect. Where there’s no poetry, there’s no beauty, and without beauty no kind of artistic work can exist.

The late Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas in a 1983 interview: http://nyr.kr/1f4dEJd (via newyorker)

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#truth

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Today I'm thankful for blue skies, a warm home, a generous family, true friends and new beginnings. Happy Thanksgiving all!

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You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.

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