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Link Party: 11/23-11/27
Here’s what I read this week: 1. People actually used to talk at the movies. 2. The Paris Review’s author interviews are really the best. Here’s a fantastic one with Ernest Hemingway. 3. How the New York Times’ City Room blog helped spark its digital evolution. 4. The millennial housing crisis. 5. I first read Nora Ephron’s…
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Link Party: 10/26-10/30
Here’s what I read this week: 1. You might be a basic witch. 2. Baby Michel Foucault. (Side note: The Toast made me laugh a lot this week.) 3. Here’s another book to add to my very long list of books to read: “The Other Paris.” 4. The fascinating history of the midnight movie showing.…
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Culture Connoisseur: Whiplash
I’m dreadfully behind on newer television (I really need to get it together for Better Call Saul and Broad City), but I saw a fantastic movie I’ve been thinking about all week: Whiplash. Whiplash has been getting a lot of awards buzz lately, and it’s well-deserved. The semi-autobiographical movie is about a young music student, played…