This Week - Feb 28, 2014

It’s that this is as good as it’s going to get. Isn’t that the key? It doesn’t sound very romantic, but when I saw my apartment, I knew it was much better than anything else. It was maybe 30 percent more than I wanted to pay, but it was 200 percent better than anything else I’d seen. I had to contain the expression on my face, because what I was thinking was, Yes, this is the one. That’s how I felt with Derrence.

— The Playboy Interview: A Candid Conversation with Gawker's Nick Denton (Jeff Bercovici for Playboy)

The professional stress was compounding the personal hell she was privately enduring. 'I’m fucking drinking myself to sleep every single night. I cannot deal with this stress. I need to get back in control of this, and I need to get the fuck away from it for a second,' Grace recalled of this period.

— A True Trans Soul Rebel (Steven Hyden for Grantland)

These changes are making me feel a bit threatened and defensive. Instead of a lone weird white kid buying a house in Detroit, now I’m part of a movement. I shop at the Whole Foods, knowing every step into that store is a step away from a brand-new city that could be. And if someone tries to break into my house again I will not hesitate to defend myself and someday my family. Some days I feel caught in a tide I cannot row against, but these are the realities. Maybe I’m feeling a bit like the good people of Detroit must have felt to be counted amongst the citizens of 'Murder City.'

— Why I Bought A House In Detroit For $500 (Drew Philip for Buzzfeed)

To say the 26-year-old version of Glass lied is like saying Bernie Madoff committed fraud. In the 1990s, Glass didn’t simply unspool a few exaggerations, like theater performer Mike Daisey did in his report on Apple factories in China for NPR’s 'This American Life.' Glass lied, lied some more, and tossed out more lies to cover up other lies wrapped in additional lies.

— No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind (Adam L. Penenberg for Pando Daily)

And remember, rather than working so hard to have stuff, better to work to have leisure, the Greek philosopher Aristotle said, upon which happiness depends." - 5 reasons why you shouldn’t work too hard

— (Brigid Schulte for The Washington Post)