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• Social Media Has Redefined Gen Z Elite Athletes

  16-08-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Through social media, they have opened up conversations about performance, mental health and the impact of the media. Sports stars are making their voices heard across a range of different sporting arenas. – The Conversation
  
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• Why Intellectuals Have Such Lowly Public Status

  16-08-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The general public in the United States sees intellectuals as disconnected from their everyday struggles and concerns. From this perspective, intellectuals don’t actually work like the laborers amongst us, but are engaged in a kind of elitist moralizing. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• All The Reasons Book Reviewing Is Lacking

  16-08-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If there is a problem with book reviewing the problem is that those of us who are good at it aren’t good enough, there aren’t enough of us, and we aren’t doing a good enough job of expanding the scope of literary discourse. – Gawker
  
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• The Case Against Beach Reading

  16-08-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reading is not a beachy activity. Reading is for armchairs and bay windows and loverless beds. Bring a book to the beach and you’re agreeing to ruin the book. – The Atlantic
  
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• Marc Ribot: Why I Have To Play My Music Super-Loud

  16-08-2021 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Audiologists say this could make one’s ears howl, create an uncomfortable sensation of density in one’s head, and eventually make it impossible to hear human conversation. Yet I persist . . . Why? – LitHub
  
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• Artists pull work from Whitworth gallery after Palestine statement removal

  16-08-2021 20:13
  
  Solidarity message removed from exhibition by Forensic Architecture after UK Lawyers for Israel campaignA Turner prize-nominated investigative group has said it is pulling an exhibition of its work at the Whitworth gallery in Manchester after a statement of solidarity with Palestine was removed from the display.Part of the exhibition addresses violence used by Israeli forces against Palestinians and was accused of being “incendiary and by its very nature one-sided” by UK Lawyers For
  
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• In Praise of The Lowly Lullaby

  16-08-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Individuals who heard them as babies relied on them, decades later, as parents and grandparents. Not even the symphony or fugue or sonata can boast such endurance or efficacy. – Ted Gioia
  
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• How Universities Get To Define The Universe

  16-08-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Universities, more than any other institution, shape our conception of what constitutes worthwhile knowledge. Therefore, if we want philosophy to thrive in the contemporary university, we will need to clearly articulate a very different vision of what a university is for. – The Point
  
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• Behold The Manifesto!

  16-08-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a form that asks readers to suspend their disbelief, and so like any piece of theater, it trades on its own vulnerability, invites our complicity, as if only the quality of our attention protects it from reality’s brutal puncture. – BookForum
  
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• Riccardo Muti at 80: Tired Of Life

  16-08-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m tired of life, because this is a world that I no longer recognise and since I can’t expect the world to adapt to me, it would be better if I got out of the way.” – Gramilano
  
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• What The Pandemic Did For Arts Organizations

  16-08-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, it was devastating – and it also opened up the arts to many who couldn’t access them before. How do we keep shows relevant and accessible to all? – FastCompany
  
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• Artworks Mark The Anniversary Of Emancipation In Canada

  16-08-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But many artists and other Canadians wonder where the info is about what came before emancipation – slavery in Canada. – CBC
  
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• Teens Cash In On The NFT Art Boom

  16-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inevitable in the TikTok-driven universe? “NFT markets like Atomic Hub, Nefty Blocks and OpenSea are filled with creators barely old enough to drive. They promote their work not through blue-chip galleries or auction houses but on social media.” – The New York Times
  
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• Keith Patchel, R.I.P.

  16-08-2021 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The American composer and musician Keith Patchel has died.He was 65. Among his musical legacies is the chamber opera “The Plain of Jars,” about America’s secret war in Laos.Anthony Haden Guest called it “the lineal descendant of Stravinsky’s ‘Nightingale’ and Alban Berg’s ‘Lulu’ and ‘Wozzeck.’” His “Pluto Symphony,” created for the Hayden Planetarium, was nominated for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.Patchel was or
  
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• What Should Be The Next Big Fantasy Adaptation After Game Of Thrones?

  16-08-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And considering that series’ success – though a very rapid fall-off after the … let’s call it disappointing … final season – why aren’t there more adaptations? – Washington Post
  
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• The Fine, Poetic Art Of Literary Name-Calling

  16-08-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consider “Tricky Dick,” “Slick Willy,” and, of course, the recent president, that “short-fingered vulgarian.” – LitHub
  
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• Pat Hitchcock O’Connell, Who Brought Her Mother To The Forefront As A Co-Creator Of Her Father’s Movies, 93

  16-08-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  McConnell acted in a few of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, and had an acting career of her own separate from him. But “while her acting career was linked to her father, she made clear in her book [Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man] that her mother had a strong cinematic partnership with him.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Hottest, Weirdest Thing In The Game World Right Now

  16-08-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a board game. About birds. – Slate
  
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• The Future Of Live Events Is Hybrid

  16-08-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At least, according to the Edinburgh Book Festival’s director, who says, “One thing is for certain, we are not going back to the festivals of 2019.” – BBC
  
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• The Originally Unplanned Yet Very Special Holiday Episode Of Ted Lasso

  16-08-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sorry, but how did they pull this off? And why Christmas in August? (Spoilers in the article. Lots of delightful spoilers.) – Los Angeles Times
  
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• In New York, Everywhere’s A State Of Mind Right Now

  16-08-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Performers fanned out across the city to play Billy Joel’s 1976 hit in a new music video meant to improve, er, New York’s state of mind. – The New York Times
  
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• Broadway Ticket Sales, Including For Hamilton And Wicked, Are Slow

  16-08-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Broadway isn’t back, baby. Thanks, Delta. – CNBC
  
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• Why Reservation Dogs Is So Important For TV

  16-08-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, it’s because of all of the Indigenous rep. – NPR
  
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• The Recovery Of The Mouse

  16-08-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In case you were worried, Disney’s doing much better now, which is possibly a good sign for the economy. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Readers Do Love Books About Sisters

  16-08-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And if you’re one of the legion who adore Lizzy and Jane, or Meg and Jo, or … etc., here’s a list for you. (If you’re not there yet, here’s a starting point.)– LitHub
  
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• Just because: Donna Murphy sings Sondheim

  16-08-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donna Murphy sings Stephen Sondheim’s “Loving You” in the original 1994 Broadway production of Passion, directed by James Lapine:
  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• The Coming Conservative Publishing Backlash To Racial Reckoning Books

  16-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yeah, no thank you, a lot of Americans don’t want to reckon. Better, some imprints think, to make a lot of money off of conservative books like Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe or American Marxism. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back

  16-08-2021 07:00
  
  Turning her camera on her customers, the sex worker and photojournalistexposed the male gaze to itself – and opened up a world of shame and desire“As a rebellious preteen, I sat down and made a list of my life goals,” writes Cammie Toloui in her photobook 5 Dollars for 3 Minutes. “It was pretty simple: 1. Sex. 2. Drugs. 3. Rock’n’roll.”Born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Summer of Love, Toloui was in the right place to hit these targets, and by 199
  
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