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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“Hey I was hoping I could look at some New York buildings on other planets today.” This week in cultural tourism: let’s all check out a Slavic Muslim wedding. I love old movie marquees and I refuse to apologize for it. The 387…
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Ames Hawkins
Is it really that human capacity is limited? Or are we limited by what it is we believe we are able, and allow ourselves—are willing—to see?
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A Trip to Malory Towers
At Aeon, Nakul Krishna revisits Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, a series of boarding school novels, for a glimpse at the ethics that join Blyton’s novels together.
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Mapping Munro
Who else can write a story like that? Over at Lit Hub, Elizabeth Poliner, author of As Close to Us as Breathing, writes about her formative years as a writer: diagramming Alice Munro short stories to get a better sense…
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Are You the Woman Reader?
It’s not that the books that get someone into the “serious reader” club are all or even mostly by men these days. But the books that get you kicked out of the club are almost exclusively written by women. Hannah…
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President Obama’s Favorite Musicians Play His Backyard
The fifth International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert took place on the White House’s South Lawn on Friday, featuring performances from giants Herbie Hancock and Aretha Franklin alongside an all-star band made up of musicians from around the world. President Obama…
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Make Like Bunnies
BBC One and Netflix are joining forces to produce a four-part miniseries of Watership Down. The new series intends to give the female rabbits a more prevalent role: On the bright side, Aitken did announce the miniseries’ intent to strengthen…
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Baldwin’s Paradoxes and Epithets
Race was—is—the fundamental American issue, underlying not only all matters of public policy (economic inequality, criminal justice, housing, education) but the very psyche of the nation. Nathaniel Rich, for the New York Review of Books, writes a loving tribute to…
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Safety Rope
No touching unless he touches you. No touching where people can see. No touching unless dared to touch. Brad makes the rules, but never says them aloud.
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A New Jungle Book
At Bitch, Soleil Ho examines the changing interpretations of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, as seen through the novel’s the many film adaptations over the years.
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/2–5/8
Monday 5/2: Naomi Hirahara discusses and signs Sayonara Slam. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. It’s the first Monday of the month! Dust off those cute pants you have, because it’s time to strut your stuff at the Speakeasy/Open Mic Night. Sign-ups…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, we close out National Poetry Month with Sophie Klahr breaking down literary conventions in “Slant,” and Sandra Simonds offering two powerful poems about sexuality and shame. Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks illustrates what he has learned from famous author’s photos. Then, in the Saturday Interview with…