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02 May

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PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

  • We may be getting a The Social Network sequel (Variety) 

  • “MILLION DOLLAR BABY (VHS)” by Tommy Richman (Spotify)

  • “Care” by Hana Vu (Spotify)

  • “Lucky” by Varg2™, Eartheater, Earth (Spotify)

  • Snõõper is a Nashville-based art-punk group with a “mosh-quito” (no bells)

  • Illmatic turned 30 (Elmattic)

    • “Illmatic is about survival, not maturing: an illdungsroman. It’s also so defined by time and place — mapping where he came from down to the last square inch. So what’s a linked short story collection, that’s a sort-of-bildungsroman, where the city is a character on every page, where every line is etched in steel, and is a hands-down classic? Fam, that’s James Joyce’s Dubliners.”

  • Considering Sleep No More’s legacy (Guardian)

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MIXTAPE

  • Brandy Jensen on the Polycrisis: “Writing about open marriage isn’t an inevitably doomed undertaking” (Yale Review) 

  • Kim Kelly on one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time—pro wrestling. (The Nation)

  • I can’t stop thinking about this weird and poignant short story (Goldfish)

    • “Sometimes I want to crawl like a groundhog out of the dirt of myself,” I say finally. I pass her the joint. She rests her chin on her knee and looks out at the park. She’s wearing a calf-length silk skirt; I sit in a chair that is wet from the rain.

  • Maris Kreizman on the problem with giant book preview lists (Literary Hub)

  • Restaurant ravioli portions…count your days (Jezebel) 

  • An oral history of 13 Going on 30 (Cosmopolitan) 

  • “My mother’s self-immolation was the prologue to my life.” (LA Times)

  • Who up eating rattlesnakes (The New Yorker)

  • Omg Starbucks, just call it boba! (Eater)

  • I can’t believe Pocono Palace Resort is closing before I got a chance to catch a weird fungus from making out in one of their champagne glass tubs (New York Post) 

  • SZA made sunglasses…I’ll probably buy a pair. (NYLON) 

  • Building a Palestinian archive (The Atlantic) 

  • “I aged out of shame, embarrassment, filter, everything. In other words, by the time I got to 85, it didn’t matter what people thought. Now I can say anything.” Ann Rower in conversation with Chris Kraus (AnOther Mag)

  • W. David Marx on “cultural arbitrage” (The Atlantic)

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