"Things Fall Apart; Balthazar Is on Hold"

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In response to the Observer‘s tale of Condé’s woes, Alex Balk (now of The Awl) has penned “The McKinsey Summing”–in the style of Yeats. Brilliant.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.