In this edition: the appeal of the surreal, decoding AI dreck, goop relations, learning to think, and pigeon racing pitfalls
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The Dude Ranch Above the Sea
“Steely Dan conjured a sealed-in-amber studio perfection—a sound that could alienate listeners as easily as seduce them.”
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Everybody Gets a Star
“Twenty years after its debut, Yelp has changed how we think about reviewing everything and anything.”
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Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?
“Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.”
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
“Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?”
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The Ballad of Ollie Jackson
“How the baddest man int he St. Louis underworld failed to become a folk hero.”
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How Creativity Became the Reigning Value of Our Time
“In a new book, Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.”
