Is That Awl There Is? Remembering The Awl And The Hairpin
The web site The Awl and its sister site The Hairpin are shutting down. The two sites always valued lively, thoughtful writing — even as the media landscape shifted around them.
by Glen Weldon
Jan 19, 2018
2 minutes
It's easiest to say what The Awl and The Hairpin were is by describing what they weren't.
They places you went for lazy listicles and clickbait quizzes — The Greatest ShowmanYou didn't go there to get yet another hot take on whatever it was that everyone on social media was buzzing
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