- This is a story decades in the making that details the shaping of California agriculture and water, and how it continues to affect politics, marketing, nutrition, immigration, celebrity, and the sheer wealth of two human beings. “A Kingdom From Dust,” by Mark Arax
- Whales have begun shouting underwater to be heard over the din of human ships and industry(!!) “Sound off,” by Peter Brannen
- “”Get well soon” is prohibited because it’s supposed to be a happy place; you’re not supposed to get sick.” from “Mickey, Me, and I: An Interview with a Character Performer as Mickey Mouse”
- https://dfwwords.wordpress.com/
- “In the United States, Christianity might be capitalism’s most impressive conscription so far.” “Gods and Profits,” by Elizabeth Bruenig
- “‘Frost Boy’ in China Warms Up the Internet, and Stirs Poverty Debate,” by JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
- Real gifts to this world: Ted Danson and The Good Place. “The Hilarity and Horror of Ted Danson on The Good Place,” by Angelica Jade Bastién
- The joy and value of being a bookseller, by the owner of a tiny rare book shop in DC “First Person Singular: Bookseller Brian Cassidy”
- @ all of The Last Jedi haters: “Luke Skywalker Isn’t Supposed to Be “Nice”!” by Emily Asher-Perrin
- “David Sedaris, Ira Glass And 25 Years Of ‘Santaland Diaries'”
- Bussing the homeless all over the country; the sad, sad report “Bussed out: How America moves its homeless” by the Outside in America team
- “America’s own Cultural Revolution” by Catherine Rampell
- Lin’s essay from 2007 about his journey through and to the Heights “Lin-Manuel Miranda: Scaling the Heights”
- “Both Wallace and Jameson, each on his own terms, direct most of their creative energy at the same general project: making sense of the ways in which the world was being remade around them toward the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first, and trying to make peace with how the language they inherited failed to communicate an experience of those changes.” “On Fredric Jameson,” by Alex Carp
- Trump live tweets Fox News, fyi. “I’ve Studied the Trump-Fox Feedback Loop for Months. It’s Crazier Than You Think” by Matthew Gertz
- The role of pets! The consciousness of animals! Explaining death to children! “Death of a Fish” by Adam Gopnik
- A lovely interview with the incomparable Bernadette Peters, “Bernadette Peters On Fulfilling The Red Dress Of ‘Hello, Dolly!'”
- Big fan of Elizabeth Bruenig’s work; this one is especially good: “If the Poor Must Work to Earn Every Dollar, Shouldn’t the Rich?”
- Back on a DFW kick recently; here’s a nice interview with him and Jonathan Franzen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfQl2LGhwc
- “How an Octopus Helps Me Think About My Mother’s Eating Disorder,” by Sabrina Imbler
- “The underpinning of this strategy is the belief that to create great art one must suffer. But method acting has also become wrapped up in a brand of identity politics that tries to make the art form resemble more traditional forms of male labor, and by extension limiting the kinds of actors who receive praise.” “Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting,” by Angelica Jade Bastién
- RIP Ursula Le Guin ❤ “Ten Things I Learned from Ursula K. Le Guin,” by Karen Joy Fowler
- Trump + Russia, together forever in all they do… “Trump and Russia Both Seek to Exacerbate the Same Political Divisions,” by Conor Friedersdorf
- Our obsession between good and evil in pop culture (worth exploring how it might parallel our freefalling identity politics) “The good guy/bad guy myth,” by Catherine Nichols
- “Demanding an expansion of empathy and responsibility when it comes to sex isn’t regressive; it’s a sexual revolution in its own right. It is silly to think we could have needed only one.” “The Aziz Ansari debacle proves it’s time for a new sexual revolution,” by Elizabeth Bruenig
- “The future is unpredictable, but the past, up to a point, can be said to be unpredictable, too. Perhaps the tendency to reshape the course of events speaks of a desire to resist necessity and fate. New events alter the perception of previous ones.” “The Permanent Sabbatical,” by Victor Brombert
- “Greta Gerwig Is a Director, Not a Muse,” by Noreen Malone
- “The past, present, and future of MLB collusion,” by Marc Normandin
- Many thoughts on the four months I spent with free cold brew, frequent pizza parties, and the anxiety and isolation that dogged it all “SRIRACHA IS FOR CLOSERS,” by Eric Konigsberg
- “Pasito a pasito…” “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ‘Despacito’,” by Wayne Marshall
- Not sure that I agree with most of his arguments, but many of his points are worth considering and grappling with: “Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Freedom?” by Isaac Chotiner
- the classic Letters from a Nut http://www.tedlnancy.com/lettersfromanut.php
- “We Need Better Male Literary Heroes,” by Kate Scott
- Bo Burnham talkin’ about directing Chris Rock’s new special “Bo Burnham and the Art of the Standup Special,” by Erik Abriss
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