Matt Taibbi, writing about the NYTimes op-ed “Dear AIG, I Quit!” by former AIG Financial Products employee Jake DeSantis:

When we first started Moue, Will and I posted only under our first names. There was no reason for this; we just hadn’t considered adding our last names at that time. As each of our other writers joined on, I left it entirely up to them how they wanted to be credited. As such, Will and I now post under our full names, Shawn and Dave by their first names and Acallidryas under a pseudonym. Acallidryas has no nefarious reason for using a pseudonym. It was her preference and has no bearing on the veracity of her posts or her writing abilities.

D.T. Max has a 13 page piece about David Foster Wallace that discusses the late author’s battles against depression while providing insight into Wallace’s creative methods. (The New Yorker) (Cont..)