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Culture, Digested: Neil Gaiman is an Industry Problem
Around twenty years ago, publishing forgot how to sell books.
Jan 21 • 
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Culture, Digested: You are having a midlife crisis. It's fine.
Miranda July joins the revolutionary divorced lady brigade
Apr 8, 2024 • 
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Culture Digested: Divorce Season
Fair Play, Lyz Lenz, and Maggie Smith go to family court
Feb 20, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: The PhD in Creativity
how the artist became the creative and other corrosions of character
Jun 17, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Goodbye to all those things over there
Drake has a sweatshop, Americans as international tastemakers, and capitalism is bad.
May 20, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Stop Laughing at Old Movies
audiences behaving badly at the theater, concerts, and everywhere else
Mar 25, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Why I Deleted My Instagram Account
a not serious look at social media and the compromised soul
Nov 20, 2023 • 
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Culture, Digested: The Stubborn and the Willful
the Letterboxd four favorites war
Mar 18, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Are Teens Too Woke to Read?
In the New York Times piece about the University of Michigan’s efforts to diversify their campus with a heavy investment in DEI initiatives, Nicholas…
Oct 21, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Elite Anxiety
David Brooks, Adelle Waldman, and William Deresiewicz pay penance for their Ivy League degrees
Mar 11, 2024 • 
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Culture, Digested: Writers Strike and the Audience Lashes Back
As soon as the WGA strike began, a backlash did as well.
May 8, 2023 • 
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Culture, Digested: Class Traitors Cruise
social mobility in university, media, the arts, and the cruise essay
Apr 15, 2024 • 
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