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In the May issue of Harper’s
@dbessner
lays out the forces that are destroying Hollywood;
@KPaoletta
sees the Republican primaries as farce; haunting the Vegas of the Ozarks; Joy Williams on Kafka; Jamaica Kincaid meets James Baldwin; and much more.
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The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant died two months after the operation, the remains of a Vietnam veteran were identified 50 years after their discovery by Arizona farmers chasing a runaway pig, and two pet pigs were mistakenly killed by mobile
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“Life is harder for some, we’re told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imaginary. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non-recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are
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From “Pride,” a story by Alice Munro, April
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“In the 2024 Republican primaries, the closest any journalist came to a campaign bus was a Sprinter van.”
@KPaoletta
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“There was allure beyond negation. Branson’s geo-cultural attributes—not quite the Midwest or the South or Appalachia yet also all three”
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“He found work futile, marriage impossible, and pain of the highest metaphysical value. The shuddering glimpse was his forte—a sight pursued until it was close to being an insight, though not quite, never quite.”
Joy Williams on Franz Kafka
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“Anyone who has not killed is not a man: This sentence, which Hemingway fashioned, means nothing at all. It means nothing, and above all is false. . . . Hemingway’s stupidity disgusts me more than I can say.”
Elias Canetti
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“The industry is in a deep and existential crisis….The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out. The top end of the talent are making more money than they ever have, but the nuts-and-bolts people who make the industry go round are losing out
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Portion of U.S. veterans who say they feel awkward or uncomfortable when they are thanked for their service : 1/2
Portion of U.S. veterans under 30 who say so : 7/10
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Portion of LGBT Americans raised Christian who have left the faith : 2/3
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Percentage by which syphilis cases have increased in the United States since 2018 : 80
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Estimated percentage of children in Gaza under the age of five who have an infectious disease : 93
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“He felt that the Day of Judgment was in fact a court-martial...He felt that his life was ‘the hesitation before birth,’ and thought often of jumping—through windows and off balconies.”
Joy Williams on Franz Kafka
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“He didn’t understand people who went to a comedy club, or to a movie, or to the theater, to feel good about themselves. Most people weren’t good. Didn’t they want to hear from someone else who wasn’t?” From “New Material,” a story by Camille Bordas
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“I always feel that his main project, his main impulse, was to write novels, to write fiction, and that this horrible situation—the oppression, the violations of our society—got in his way. And that, I feel, is unforgivable.”
— Jamaica Kincaid on James Baldwin
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Percentage of transgender Americans who have had gender-affirming surgery who report an increase in life satisfaction : 97
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Portion of transgender Americans who have been homeless at some point : 3/10
Who are currently unemployed : 1/5
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“The price of entry for working in Hollywood had been high for a long time: unpaid internships, low-paid assistant jobs...Greed is not new to Hollywood.”
@dbessner
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The rise of free work was a natural outcome of Hollywood conglomeration and financialization; one leads directly to the other
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