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Outside Reading — Being Verda Tetteh edition

June 19, 2021 Dan Seeger

A High School Senior Won a $40,000 Scholarship. Then She Gave It Up. by Maria Cramer To my dismay, I tend to focus on the individuals and institutions that are causing the most untoward disruption, sowing chaos with their ineptness … Continue reading Outside Reading — Being Verda Tetteh edition

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Outside Reading — Waves edition

June 12, 2021 Dan Seeger

Making Waves by Gabriella Angotti-Jones This marvelous piece from The New York Times, largely a photo essay with just enough elaborative commentary to heighten the power and poignancy of the images, touches on the small and mutually devoted culture of … Continue reading Outside Reading — Waves edition

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Outside Reading — Transponster edition

June 5, 2021 Dan Seeger

On Chandler Bing’s Job by Megan Garber I’m not my cohort’s resident expert on the sitcom about a sextet of New Yorkers who will be there for one another when precipitations obeys the law gravity. So it with humility that … Continue reading Outside Reading — Transponster edition

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Outside Reading — We Rebuild What You Destroy edition

May 29, 2021 Dan Seeger

‘Whoa, this is crazy’: L.A. teen punks the Linda Lindas on going viral (just before finals) by August Brown Playing at the L.A. Public Library is the new South by Southwest, it seems. The live set by youthful punk act … Continue reading Outside Reading — We Rebuild What You Destroy edition

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Outside Reading — Very Much an Irish Woman edition

May 22, 2021 Dan Seeger

Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently by Amanda Hess This fantastic profile of Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor, who also goes by the name Shuhada Sadaqat, offers a definitive, paper-of-record pardon of the artist’s notorious rending of a religious figure’s photograph. Better … Continue reading Outside Reading — Very Much an Irish Woman edition

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Outside Reading — One of Us edition

May 15, 2021 Dan Seeger

A Bronx Upstart. A Logo With a Tilt. Now It’s Everywhere. by Shane Goldmacher I wrote about the inspired messaging of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s inaugural political campaign three years ago, right after her upset victory in the primary set her … Continue reading Outside Reading — One of Us edition

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Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition

May 8, 2021May 8, 2021 Dan Seeger

The Girl in the Kent State Photo by Patricia McCormick More than fifty years after the Kent State shootings, Patricia McCormick profiles the girl who was at the center of the most famous photo of the government’s crime against the … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition

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Outside Reading — This Island Earth Doesn’t Shine for Me Anymore

May 1, 2021 Dan Seeger

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: The oral history by Adam Carston The big-screen iteration of Mystery Science Theater 3000 hardly seems to have enough significance to merit a lengthy oral history on the occasion of its anniversary, but I’m … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Island Earth Doesn’t Shine for Me Anymore

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Outside Reading — Pursuing Trivia edition

April 17, 2021April 18, 2021 Dan Seeger

World’s Largest Trivia Contest Returns to Stevens Point by Jon Fuller The only things I’ve read this week are directly related to the strange pastime I’m participating in this weekend. So this regular Staurday exercise in linking to the words … Continue reading Outside Reading — Pursuing Trivia edition

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Outside Reading — Criminal Insurrection edition

April 10, 2021 Dan Seeger

The Storm by Luke Mogelson It is three months since the U.S. Capitol was assaulted by frothing zealots in red caps and t-shirts with slogans of proud bigotry. It was a criminal act and an affront on the very principle … Continue reading Outside Reading — Criminal Insurrection edition

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