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This essay is a great example of one of my favorite genres and so hard to pull off. Pop philosophy.
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TODAY: @arwam on living a "productive" life during a genocide. "Everything feels indecent. Writing emails, walking the dog, watching spring flowers bloom, buying groceries, living a normal life."
TODAY: A story on the heartbreaking loss of a piece of blues history from @shujaxhaider and a gorgeous piece from cultural critic, editor and curator Dessane Lopez Cassell on the rituals and ecstatic beauty of nightlife, music, the dancefloor and The Club:
TODAY, from @CAAF : why did a high-profile journalist scrap his book on the O.J. trial after sitting through the whole thing?
“There is no book,” he wrote. “At least not one I can write.”