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In Which We Start A Company With Our Best Girlfriend
Season 3 All Happens On A Boat by DICK CHENEY "So how was the season finale of True Detective?" Lynne said, twirling a chicken thigh on her finger like a basketball. "I don't want to talk about it," I...
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In Which Father John Misty Remains A Cherished Individual
His Best Work by ERIC FARWELL Prior to the emergence of Father John Misty, Josh Tillman slummed it in indie pop, writing earnest songs about life tinged with slight Judaic-Christian undertones. He...
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In Which We Have To Pretend We Are Letting Go
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which Rebecca West Splashed Her Colors About
Retreat At Marienbad by ALEX CARNEVALE I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet. Rebecca West, 1920 The girl born Cissie...
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In Which Ladel Ourselves Wet Fan Service
God & Jon Hamm by ELEANOR MORROW Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp creators Michael Showalter & David Wain It was right before Christmas in the year of our lord 1993 that The State...
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In Which We Receive A Police Escort At All Times
Oscar Isaac's Digestive Tract by DICK CHENEY Show Me A Hero creators David Simon, William F. Zorzi & Paul Haggis Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Isaac) flirts with a secretary at City Hall in Yonkers. He...
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In Which Noah Baumbach Is Mistress To Us All
Needy by JULIA CLARKE Mistress America dir. Noah Baumbach 84 minutes Despite its cliché, I have come to terms with the writer figure, musing over this carnival we call life, in a story: Nick Carraway...
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In Which Only Sleep Abates This Discomfort
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In Which We Cried Uncle Almost Continuously Throughout
The Robot From Ex-Machina by ALEX CARNEVALE The Man From U.N.C.L.E. dir. Guy Ritchie 121 minutes The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a lot more interesting if you imagine that Gabby (Alicia Vikander) is a...
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In Which We Consider Them All Monsters
with Philip Roth Veronica in the Extreme by HELEN SCHUMACHER Even after her death, her friends didn't hesitate to call her a monster. Veronica Geng, a contributor and fiction editor at the New Yorker...
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In Which We Teach Chaos Theory To Young Children
Sext the Walking Dead by DICK CHENEY Fear the Walking Dead creators Robert Kirkman & Dave Erickson Every American in Los Angeles is in an interracial relationship except for Nick (Frank Dillane)....
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In Which We Will Ask You To Keep It In Your Backpack
Interjection by TAYLOR HINE If, in conversation, I don’t understand a reference, I have this habit (one that I’m trying really hard to break) of going along with it anyway, thinking that the risk of...
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In Which This Jonathan Fellow Disorients Our Sense of Well Being
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Feel Appropriately Subdued Until Dawn
The Telltale Towel by JASON ARTIS-CHO Until Dawn Supermassive Games Sony Computer Entertainment When Sam (Hayden Panettiere) emerges from a long, hot bath at the winter escape of her friend Josh...
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In Which We Were Not Thinking About You
How Constantly And Insanely I Have Missed You Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools. The Portuguese...
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In Which We Singlehandedly Started A Drug War
You Don't Belong Here by DICK CHENEY Narcos creators Chris Brancato, Carlos Bernard & Doug Miro Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) is a DEA agent sent to Colombia who does not speak any Spanish. His...
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In Which We Pay Attention To The Signs Of Fate
Sacrificial Music by ERIC FARWELL On first blush it's easy to mistake the stories in Rebecca Makkai’s Music for Wartime as being haunted by the past; the collection finds its spine in short,...
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In Which We Find A New Hobby For The One We Love
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In Which She Never Talked About Men Or Clothes
A Thing Worth Cherishing, Worth Fighting For by SARA BIVIGOU Nina Simone makes me feel ready. Which is to say whenever I listen to her I spring up — black, female, alive. I met Nina a couple of months...
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In Which There Is A Common Thread In All These Epilogues
Nearly Contagious by MARK ARTURO for B. With distressing clarity, I recall the first time I saw her. Blonde hair was tied back unceremoniously, a glut of premeds shuffled back and forth to obstruct my...
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