The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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" Lil Nas X’s Smash Makes Country Wonder if Rap Is Friend or Foe. Again."

By artappraiser on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 2:48am |

Article by Jon Caramanica @ NYTimes.com/Music, April 11

Over the last few weeks, “Old Town Road” — a strutting and lightheartedly comedic country-rap tune by the previously unknown 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X — has lived an improbable number of lives.

Someone needed to invoke Godwin's Law on this Congressional Hearing

By artappraiser on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 5:37pm |

not to mention that Victim Olympics cards were being played to max. Mho, Nadler would only make a fair, not great, moderator on a blog:

"You shouldn't let poets lie to you"

By artappraiser on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 6:39am |

Conspiracy Theories are Fun and Magical

By artappraiser on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 8:43pm |

Great title for a long term thread, so I am stealing it with this first example:

Secrets of the GOP revealed in this thread

By artappraiser on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 1:52pm |

The olden days

By artappraiser on Mon, 04/01/2019 - 2:57am |

Fun thread:

On American social cohesion

By artappraiser on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 2:48pm |

Most of us feel like it is breaking down, but this point I just ran across made me think again:

A Chinese science fiction writer goes to Burning Man.

By artappraiser on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 12:45am |

If your goal is to change culture--

By artappraiser on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 10:07pm |

This is a good little example of how you go about effecting changing culture:

Increasing visibility of non-conforming gender communities in stock photos @ CJR.org, March 26.

When "family values" conservatives complain about the influence of "Hollywood liberals" and "the liberal media", this is what they mean. And they are not wrong that it can help usher along culture change. Far more than many protests or the like, which can produce counter-productive blowback.

Pay rates for free-lance journalism

By artappraiser on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 7:46pm |

It occurred to me again recently that people don’t know how little we make. My last NYTBR review paid 300 dollars. I had a cover piece in 2014 that paid 600. I read the books i review carefully & often read other works by that same author to understand their whole trajectory.

— porochista khakpour (@PKhakpour) March 24, 2019

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