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The New York Times


Hey, how was your week? Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you:
 

  1. A delightful story about a dance troupe for Korean women in their 60s, 70s, and 80s in Queens that's been going strong for 30 years. 
     
  2. Alexander Chee answers a question he gets asked a lot—"Do you have any advice for writing about people who do not look like you?”—with three more questions.
     
  3. The hardest, truest read from the last week: Dahlia Lithwick on why some things are worth not getting over.
     
  4. "The novel is a constantly evolving technology, always finding ways to convey more reality, to articulate more truths, to identify new equivalences. Underlying this project is the optimistic belief that seeing the world more clearly can make individuals more free, and societies more just." Elif Batuman on why Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is just as relevant now as when it was written.
     
  5. Quick fun things: Simpsons Library and Pastoral Fantasies.
     
  6. Bobby Finger on the Bon Appetit cinematic universe, which is truly the only way to describe it: "When I was in the room with them during Bon Appétit’s Best Weekend Ever, a three-day event earlier this month, at a party where V.I.P. tickets cost at least $500 but were given to me free of charge by Bon Appétit, I felt not just starstruck but crazy. I mean actually deranged! As though my sense of celebrity and fame had been knocked out of whack after a year of watching approachable giggly people cooking in a skyscraper several times a week." 
     
  7. Sephora Reviews that Mention Crying, Sobbing or Tears: a dataset (via @waxy)
     
  8. Pumpkin recipe interlude: Bread and curry.
     
  9. "People don’t fail because they lack resilience; they lack resilience because circumstances have set them up for failure. Success is very motivating, and failure is discouraging." Let's make a pact not to blame ourselves for absolutely everything?
     
  10. Vermeer

    So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum 
    in painted quiet and concentration
    keeps pouring milk day after day
    from the pitcher to the bowl
    the World hasn't earned
    the world's end.

    Wisława Szymborska
    trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak

    (via Matt Ogle's daily poetry newsletter Pome, which is BACK)


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