See "The Rossosphere," at bottom right in the froggy-green footer, for a New Yorker-related blogroll of similarly preoccupied sites; partial lists of New Yorker writers and artists with websites are in the footer as well, under "Primary Sources." The list below reflects the fancies of Emdashes founder Emily Gordon, as well as some of her influences and acknowledgments.

Enthusiasts par excellence
∗ Print magazine
James Wolcott
Chiasmus
Steven Heller
Slice [pizza authority Adam Kuban]
Love Shine [best store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn]
Cinders Gallery [best gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn]
Greatest Films [Tim Dirks]
∗ The Corduroy Appreciation Club [Miles Rohan, founder]
Arnjuice [Web comic by Emdashes staff cartoonist Paul Morris, whose collections are for sale or download at Lulu]
Most charming 21st-century DJ (tie): Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour [XM Radio]; Michael Cumella, The Antique Phonograph Music Program [WFMU]
∗ The Sound of Young America [Jesse Thorn]; now on WNYC
The Comics Curmudgeon [Josh Fruhlinger]
Scott McLemee, and his blog Quick Study
Collision Detection [Clive Thompson]
The Eleanorian [Eleanor Levine]
Meg Hourihan
Jason Kottke
The Dorothy Parker Society
The Magazineer
Robert W. Gordon, a.k.a. Emily's dad

Design for lovin', art with class
A Brief Message
Winterhouse Studio [Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel]
Debbie Millman
Toon Books and Françoise Mouly
Flog! The Fantagraphics Blog
Nick Abadzis [image and sketch blog]
Pogo
Ray Fenwick
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Funnel Incorporated [Lori Wilson & Lin Wilson]
Art Fag City [Paddy Johnson]
Chris Payne Photography
Emily Flake
Jasmin Chua
American Chickens [Lisa Brown]
Patricia Storms
El Rey Del Art [James Barnett]
Egon
Today's Inspiration

Bookish brilliance and overall write-eousness
The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis [a perfect novel]
The Clumsiest People in Europe [Todd Pruzan and Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer]
Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop [a legend of American dance you can still meet in person]
Katha Pollitt
The Abbeville Manual of Style [an incredibly helpful helper]
∗ The National Book Critics Circle
How to Be Useful [Megan Hustad]
The New Haven Review
Titlepage: passionate conversations about books
Betsy Lerner
Watershed [Morgan Noel]
Elizabeth Crane
The Abbeville Manual of Style
Unpleasant Event Schedule [Daniel Nester]
Jonathan Taylor
Matthew Thorburn
Lilit in Stereo and Save the Assistants [Lilit Marcus]
Josh Wolk
Maud Newton
Olivia Birdsall
Nicole Hefner
Shiva's Tears
Marcy Dermansky
∗ MetaxuCafé
The Millions (A Blog About Books) [C. Max Magee]
Daniel Radosh
Global Worming [Jeremy Lehrer]
Michael Broder
Today in Letters
Normblog [Norman Geras]
∗ Painted Bride Quarterly [how to submit]
Surfette [Lisa Stone]
BlogHer
Oxford University Press blog
Eric Umansky
Jeff MacIntyre
Writing Degree Zero
About Last Night [Terry Teachout]
Young Manhattanite [Andrew Krucoff]
The Old Hag [Lizzie Skurnick]
BookLust [Patricia Storms]
Beatrice [Ron Hogan]
Ryan Sloan
n+1 magazine
Stephen McCauley
Francesca Segrè
Emily's fab aunt Amy Gordon
Nicole Hefner
Steamboats Are Ruining Everything [Caleb Crain]
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen
Starnosedmole [Maureen Thorson]
And I Am Not Lying [Jeff Simmermon]
Dorothy Surrenders [Dorothy Snarker]
The Wisdom of the Illiterati

Comedy prevents unprovoked shin-kicking of strangers
∗ Comedy 365 [Georgina Sowerby & Brian Luff]
Wendy Spero
You Look Nice Today: A Journey of Emotional Hygiene
The Morning News
Simulacrum [Chris Skinner]
Drink at Work [Francesco Marciuliano]
Minor Tweaks [Thomas Bartlett]
Variety Shac [Shonali Bhowmik, Heather Lawless, Andrea Rosen, & Chelsea Peretti]
Go Fug Yourself
Lance Baker [Chicago actor extraordinaire]

Music is everything
Gloria Deluxe [Cynthia Hopkins]
The Ironic Mullet [Lee Ann Westover]
The Lascivious Biddies
The M Shanghai String Band
The Dizzies
Oni Buchanan
All the Young Mod Soldiers
Untouched By Work or Duty [Marlow Riley]
Complicated Fun [Peter Scholtes]
Solomon Douglas [Jazz pianist, bandleader, swing-dance teacher]

Movies are also everything
Jürgen Fauth's Muckworld
GreenCine
No More Marriages!
Kabluey [a wonderfully funny movie by Scott Prendergast; get it on DVD!]

Lindy hop is the ticket to joy
∗ Yehoodi [lindy hop community and news]
The Yehoodi Talk Show
Frankie Manning
The Click Heard Round the World [Rik Panganiban]

Politics make the world go 'round
The Apollo Alliance [where Emily's grand sister Kate improves life as we know it]
Laura Dickinson [Faculty Director, Center for Transnational Public-Private Governance at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and Emily's brilliant stepsister]
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Liza Featherstone
Fighting Bob
∗ Women for Afghan Women
Sabrina Tavernise
∗ The Public Works Project
Left Business Observer [Doug Henwood]

Various necessities
∗ Camaje [Abby Hitchcock's delicious bistro on MacDougal St.]; Abigail is her new and beautiful restaurant in Prospect Heights
Seascape Soapworks [foamy soap made by Emily's best friend's mother and her partner; they take PayPal!]
∗ Brainiads
The Morning News
Irene Montgomery
Alex Montgomery
Strange Maps
The Culture Archive
The Harringay Arms
NYC Blocks
Gingerpop
Fralinger's [salt water taffy, almond macaroons, Atlantic City]
The Toast-O-Lator

∗ Emily is (or has been) a member, editor, contributor, or crepe consumer

Acknowledgments. These stalwart Emdashes supporters deserve a lifetime supply of Nutella (at least): Katha Pollitt, Jennifer Hadley, R.W.G., and the prodigiously talented PK & Su and Jesse Ewing. I'm grateful to Jasmin Chua, Ashby Jones, Liz Galst, Lisa Stone, Jay Rosen, Hillery Stone, T.M.D.V., Amy Hosig, Hugo, Todd Pruzan, Jeremy Lehrer, Patricia Storms, Darren Johnson, Elizabeth Riley, Kevin Fitzpatrick at The Dorothy Parker Society, Scott McLemee, Morgan Noel, Andrew Hearst, David Perrotta, Peter Terzian, Laurie Muchnick, Eric Umansky, my family, Heather Stewart, and Caitlin and Liza Featherstone, who were enthusiastic from the start in 2004. Ron Hogan has been a godsend. Kristina DiMatteo, Caitlin Dover, and Lindsay Ballant made invaluable suggestions during the redesign, and Marlow Riley was a true constable of last-minute aid. Carolita Johnson is the dearest friend ever found through starting a sometimes inexplicable project. And, of course, thanks to everyone at and of The New Yorker--present, past, and future--for the best magazine I know.
--Emily Gordon