The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

T. M. Brown is a writer based in Brooklyn. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork, among other places.

T. M. Brown

The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Drowning in Mediocre Data: On Kyle Chayka’s “Filterworld”

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

T. M. Brown is a writer based in Brooklyn. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork, among other places.

T. M. Brown

Articles

The City in Its Grip: On Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write”

Drowning in Mediocre Data: On Kyle Chayka’s “Filterworld”