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Gene Kelly in THOUSANDS CHEER (1943) dir. George Sidney

Ayana Mathis reviews Eliza Griswold's "Circle of Hope," about the splintering of a Philadelphia church: washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/…

B.D. McClay on the just reissued "Princess of 72nd Street," a "slender, accomplished and frequently funny work told from the perspective of a lively and bruised female consciousness." washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/…

An all-time favorite.

You can bash this site all you want, but without it this image wouldn't still occasionally pop into my head and provide me some relief.

from MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) by Mary Ruefle

It was a lot of fun to write this essay! I hope you'll take some time to read it and to (re)discover the books I've written about. Thanks Not That John Williams for the edits. Thanks National Book Foundation & The Washington Post for the assignment and support. Thanks also to the Brooklyn Public Library 👇🏽

I'm definitely too old to blame 20-year-olds for anything they don't know. At the same time, if you need me I'll be in my crypt.

I love our Book Tours, and this one with Jason Reynolds might be my favorite to this point. washingtonpost.com/books/interact…

If you don’t believe in monoculture yet, realize that the announcement of a big surprise guest at the DNC could feasibly only mean one of two people (or else it’s overplaying the surprise).

the dnc’s social media manger watching the taylor swift/beyoncé surprise appearance speculation tweets pour in while lin-manuel miranda warms up

I think the convention speakers were mostly impressive, and that we live domestically in highly unusual times. And I know cable TV, intellectually and journalistically, is a Superfund site. But I’m still shocked by how *extremely* embarrassing the coverage was on a Dem channel.

Only very certain '90s people will understand this, but I just learned that Kristen Hall was a co-founder of the group Sugarland and it blew my mind a little.

Since people seem interested in this, years ago I interviewed Marilynne Robinson about Calvin and the ways he informs/inspires her own political and social vision. Don't miss the way she totally owns me at the end, ha commonwealmagazine.org/saving-calvin

This didn't take off. Looks like I'm going to have to unearth some old Ellen James Society clips to really capture the zeitgeist.

This is great (as are the rest in this thread for different artists).

Watching baseball Jon Bois

this is something I've wavered on over the years — how much do young kids need to know about politics, and when? The Post wants to hear from parents on how they are talking (or not talking) about the upcoming election with their kids. No wrong answers! forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Labor Day weekend means fall preview. Them's the rules. washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/…

This has defined what true love is to me