“Eating xiaolongbao is just like handling international relations,” aphorized a Weibo user, “if your attention slips even a little, you’ll burn your mouth.”

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'...he gets to the real meat and potatoes and the real reason for a human being to be.'

Harper's Magazine excerpted Jamaica Kincaid's essay in 'God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin,' published by Dancing Foxes Press / Brooklyn Museum

Research led by a professor Indiana University finds that empathy among young Americans has rebounded to levels unseen since the late 1970s, while research led by a professor The University of Chicago finds that students on college campuses are more fearful than ever before.

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Ukrainian citizens built and repaired military drones at home with parts purchased from AliExpress while artillery shells and ammunition ran low as the country awaited the arrival of aid.

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So basically finance bros who work too many hours to even watch tv are squeezing Hollywood writers so they can’t work enough paid hours to create good tv so that we are all left at the end of our work days with crap tv. Way to go, America. (Excellent work by db Harper's Magazine )

Portion of U.S. human-resources officers who expect AI to replace jobs at their company within the next three years : 7/10

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The obvious distinction is the Yellowstone Club, a private resort hidden in the mountains that is one of the most exclusive institutions on the planet. Google Street View doesn’t show its streets.

How private equity shapes Big Sky

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“In Rome, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the past: the scale of the achievement, the scale of the loss.”

Hari Kunzru

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From that great Mecca of the Ozarks: “Branson’s John Denver tribune artist, by the time he made it a dozen years beyond Denver’s, had taken up federal wire fraud.” harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

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Kafka warned Felice Bauer, a woman he courted and tortured epistolically for years, that he will be a faithless husband because night after night he will commit adultery with his writing.

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NPR finally invited on a bonafide poster to grace its harrowed airways

A real must listened from db
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listening to db on Fresh Air talk about his Harper’s cover story about the financialization of hollywood. he gets into some fascinating hollywood history from the earliest days. 🙌 📣 npr.org/programs/fresh…

Did an interview with Think on NPR about Hollywood—talked about a bunch of details that couldn’t make it into my piece think.kera.org/2024/05/03/why…

“Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for certain what’s going to work.”

— William Goldman

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“Interpretation is the revenge of intellect against art.”

— Susan Sontag

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“He maintained that he was ‘made of literature’ but felt that he had no control over his capacity for writing, that ‘it comes and goes like a phantom.’”

— Joy Williams on Franz Kafka

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Percentage of millennial Americans who believe they have “money dysmorphia,” or unfounded feelings of financial insecurity : 41

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“Investments in the alchemy of the creative process do not perform well in quarterly reports.”

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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi spends a decade discovering Branson, Missouri, evangelical America's frozen-in-time (but maybe no longer?) entertainment capital and pilgrimage site.

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