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Julien Baker discusses her latest album, Turn Out the Lights, the ways in which she approaches writing about difficult subjects, and the redemptive power in being open about sadness.
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Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
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Our American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
...moreOnce I dated the son of a preacher man. Later, I dated the son of a preacher woman.
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