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- LA Review of Books Great selection of literary reviews, essays, and interviews.
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- New Yorker: Page-Turner “Criticism, contention, and conversation about books that matter.”
- Slate Culture Gabfest My intellectual idols discuss culture, highbrow and low.
- The Millions An untidy source of interesting literary articles.
- The New York Times Sunday Book Review Lovely assortment of weekly news on new book releases, literary reviews, and articles.
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- Cracked: After Hours YouTube Channel Entertaining, goofy, but actually quite insightful source of info on pop culture.
- Current TV: That's Gay “Humorous deconstructions of gay stereotypes in media and popular culture.”
- PhD Comics Jokes on academia sorted with informative animated videos.
- Target: Women by Sarah Haskins Hilarious examples of sexist advertisements and cultural trends. The videos are now scattered, so YouTube/Google as many as you can!!
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Category Archives: Culture Updates
Culture Update: The Atlantic, Susan Choi, and “Shooting Stars”
Here are some cultural products I think you should check out ASAP: THE ATLANTIC: THE EDUCATION ISSUE The cover is provocative, as is the headline title: “Is College Doomed?” In this issue of the Atlantic, Graeme Wood examines whether traditional … Continue reading
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Tagged Bag Raiders, college, education, My Education, Susan Choi, The Atlantic
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Culture Update 6/2/14: Vivaldi and James Joyce in June
Greetings, culture-lovers. June has begun, and I’m very pumped for the delectable intellectual samplings just waiting to be enjoyed this season. Before I begin this culture update, I wanted to briefly mention two books on my current reading list. You’ve … Continue reading
Culture Update 2/28/14: Pseudo Science, Trans-Parent, Boston Flick, RuPaul
Lots to cover this week: Whole Foods: Whole Lotta Nonsense? In this provocative Daily Beast article, Michael Schulson points out that while the pseudoscience behind, say, creationism or its more science-kosher avatar intelligent design, is rightly decried by educated liberals … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Updates, Music, Reviews, Science, Theatre, TV and Film
Tagged Annie Baker, Company One, Jeffrey Tambor, Pseudoscience, RuPaul, The Flick, Transparent, Whole Foods
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Culture Update 2/24/14: Academics, Coriolanus, and Capote
Some important articles and cultural considerations I’ve been mulling over for the past week or so: Kristof: Exhorting PhDs to Get Involved Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote a column last week (“Professors, We Need You!”), carefully and … Continue reading
Mini Culture Update: August: Osage County Film
The first theater review I wrote for My Entertainment World (found here), was of a production of August: Osage County. Tracy Lett’s play delves into the troubled family foibles of the Westons, an Oklahoma family famous for feuds of epic … Continue reading
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Tagged August: Osage County, Film adaptation, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep
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Culture Update 07/29/13: “Difficult Women,” Bulgakov, A Late Quartet
Article of the Week Emily Nussbaum’s “Difficult Women” (The New Yorker) There has been a lot of discussion about the rise of the anti-hero in American cable television, most of the coverage arising from the recent death of James Gandolfini, … Continue reading
Culture Update 05/21/2013: Orwell, Raymond Chandler, Good Will Hunting
Here are some of the projects I’m working on now: Orwell: Homage to Catalonia George Orwell has written some of my favorite fiction and nonfiction. Top points in my book go to 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and … Continue reading
Culture Update 3/4/2013
Quickie of the Week The New York Times article “The Perils of Perfection” offers a questioning look at Silicon Valley’s need to “Have an app” for everything. It’s one thing to have nifty means of reducing stress or being more … Continue reading
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Culture Update 7/29/2012
All right, let’s make this short and sweet: Surprise of the Week: Pokemon Ruby Suffice it to say I was obsessed with the Pokemon games and culture from 1998 to an indefinite period (meaning it only vaguely tapered off when … Continue reading
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