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Welcome to the edition of the Daily Sunday Culture, in which a Atlantic The writer or the editor reveals what entertains them. Today’s special guest is Boris Kachka, a editor -in -chief who wrote why Copyright expiration dates are an opportunity to be celebratedWhat is the Internet age removes writersand the emergence of a Unbearably honest writing.
Boris is a new fan of The incredible race and a long -standing reader from Thomas Pynchon. He likes to look Breakup As he grew up “Every Stranger” and recently attended his second reunion concert, where he “wore a pulp t-shirt … without trace of shame”.
First of all, here are three Sunday readings of The Atlantic::
The culture survey: Boris Kachka
The TV show that I appreciate the most at the moment: it could be basic to name BreakupBut the show teaches specific buttons for me. I was annoyed to see him in relation to LostA series that ends up betrayed the confidence of his viewers. THE Lost The next series of the Showrunner Damon Lindelof, The remainsis a better comparison: a spectacle built on a wild premise that has accumulated layers and changed the registers as it develops, although it is always closely concentrated on a distribution of which you deepen deeply. Breakup has become a foreigner, but I have the feeling that, as The remainsHe will eventually stick an landing that gives meaning to his fallen world, even if he allows certain mysteries. (In relation: What are the puzzles of Breakup about?))
An author that I will read anything: It seems pretentious to choose Thomas PynchonBut listen to me. V. was the first adult novel that I never read, after picking it up at random at the age of 14 of the shelf of a Dinky branch library deep in Brooklyn. I did not have to understand each symbol and theory of the conspiracy to fall into its rhythms, which define the model for the beautiful and disorderly books that I consider as personal favorites. These include, of course, Gravity Rainbow And Vice inherent (How is it for the range?). Hirsaurs and serious and hilarious, sympathetic and scholarly and juvenile, counter-cultural without being Dippy or Hokey: what more could you ask for in a book? You can keep your tight structures and perfect ends.
The best novel I recently read: Okay, sometimes I like a tight structure and a perfect end. A book that I have read in the past year impressed me for precisely these qualities. Jo Hamya The hypocrite Takes up during the visualization of a part and displays many units of the drama, as well as the cup of the dialogue and a devastating and impactful coda.
Something delicious introduced me to a child in my life: My son is 11 years old and we guided him (or letting him guide us) to popular entertainment for adults. This means browsing websites for “clean Seinfeld episodes ”and, for me, finally catch up The incredible race. Travel, tension, strategy, situations that are adults but not “mature” – all this makes the Ur – Reality Show Perfect Family Entertainment. (We also have Binded Only murders in the building; I forgot how prodigious and inventive the curse, but my son needs to learn it too.)
It is barely original to say that what makes the race so incredible, between fractional plans of UNESCO sites, this is what it reveals on relationships in extremis. Yes, reality TV shows are published to amplify conflicts and impose simplistic accounts. But the time constraints of The incredible race Forcing any tension on the surface, revealing human impulses to the best and worse. It is difficult to imagine a situation that would force couples to talk to each other in this way in front of a camera. I am not sure to survive, physically or emotionally. (In relation: Eight perfect episodes of television))
The last thing that made me sniff: Media threshing Saturday Night LiveThe 50th anniversary was out of control, but it found jewels that missed the first time. The one that made me sniff: Fred Armisen Put your punk group together To play her daughter’s marriage. (In relation: Saturday Night Live played the bad coil of the biggest strokes.))
The last thing that made me cry: I imagine that most of us are walking with shadows of our best self. Mine, I think, go to concerts once a week instead of three or four times a year. In September, my wife and I saw Pulp’s reunion show at the Kings Theater. It was our first time on the Brooklyn site, the first show that we saw after being returned to New York in Los Angeles and our second reunion program (Since Radio City in 2012the year we got married). I wore a paste t-shirt at the concert without trace of shame. Although Jarvis Cocker, the Slithery, the 61 -year -old forehead, no longer climbs the rafters, his choreography with the arms and shoulders is almost as dynamic as his dance. The sui generis mixture of disco pulp, darkness, sensitivity and painfully intelligent lyricism is often grouped with Britpop, but the oasis is the game of the imitative child in comparison. Jarvis will live forever.
The event that I am most impatient to: By keeping our concert schedule three times annual, we see the magnetic fields in April, at the Tarrytown Music Hall. We will not even have to leave the suburbs. We live the dream of generation X.
A calm song that I like, and a strong song that I like: there are many, and not bad that correspond to the two categories (I am really a noisy guy aloud; LCD soundsystem was invented for me) . Among the quiet stars, there is the charming “You Can’t All” by Yo La Tengo, whose live performance was blown to me last year. The noisy song that my family is listening to all the time right now is the first thing Alexa is playing when we ask for Afrobeat: “Water No Get Enemy” by Fela Kuti. Sometimes algorithm Go well.
The coming week
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Last breathA thriller film based on a real story on the treacherous mission of deep divers to save a crew companion (in theaters on Friday)
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TalentA novel by Daniel d’Addario about a group of actresses who face a calculation during the awards season (Tuesday)
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ViciousA horror film with Dakota Fanning (in theaters on Friday)
Essay
Do you want to change your personality? Have a baby.
By Olga Khazan
I had read scientific research suggesting that you can change your personality by behaving like the kind of person you want. Several studies show that people who want to be, for example, less isolated or less anxious can get into the habit of socializing, meditating or journal. Finally, these habits will occur naturally, knit together to train new features.
I knew that becoming a parent had the potential to change even deeper. But I didn’t know how.
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