💡the ideas that we struggle to rediscover
David Shields on the art of literary collage...Brad & Mira sift through the rubble of American popular culture...& more...
🚨good news: the podcast got a nice shout-out from booker-nominated author daisy johnson in the guardian. (thanks, daisy!)
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▶️ on the podcast: a new ‘craftwork’ episode called ‘how to write literary collage.’ my guest is david shields, author of how we got here and a christian existentialist and a psychoanalytic atheist walk into a trump rally (sublation media).
▶️ on the podcast: vol. 16 of brad & mira for the culture: ‘sexting with a 70-year-old man on steroids.’ rfk-nuzzi sexting scandal…jeff bezos’ top-secret campfire retreat…janet jackson’s kamala comments…trying to decode the diddy debacle…& more… (vol. 17 coming up on thursday.)
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1. who pays for the arts? kate dwyer on turmoil in the nonprofit world—and the people who are trying to build a new creative economy. (semi-related sidebar: here’s this year’s roster of macarthur fellows.)
2. elizabeth a. harris breaks down the finalists for the national book award.
3. sophia nguyen visits author zadie smith in her home office.
4. erin somers reflects on the commodification of cannabis and gets nostalgic for the bloodshot stoners of yore.
5. simon reader on the relevance and rewards of writing exercises.
6. matt zoller seitz on the life and legacy of kris kristofferson, who died on sunday at the age of 88.
7. raymond ang on how the criterion closet became internet famous.
8. andrew solomon on the sharp rise in mental health struggles among young people, and what online life might have to do with it.
9. john chiaverina on the pre-eminent artists of internet culture—and why they escaped to rural ohio.
10. the new yorker endorses kamala harris for president. so does the new york times. don’t forget to vote.
this month the book club is reading dogs and monsters, the new story collection by mark haddon, the "terrifyingly talented" (london times) author of the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime and the porpoise. dogs and monsters features eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love. available from doubleday.
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