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Outside Reading — Recoil edition

August 10, 2019 Dan Seeger

“All Three Spoke Spanish. All Three Were Americans”: A Pediatrician Describes Treating El Paso’s Shooting Victims by Charles Bethea In the course of the past few years, I spent some time editing a trade publication that served the health care … Continue reading Outside Reading — Recoil edition

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Outside Reading — It’s Your Trip, So Be My Guest edition

August 3, 2019October 19, 2019 Dan Seeger

The Triumph and Tragedy of Woodstock’s Forgotten Album Producer by David Browne The fiftieth anniversary shabby clone version of the famed Aquarian Exposition hilariously collapsed this week, sparing the universe the weird embarrassment of current crummy bands trying desperately to … Continue reading Outside Reading — It’s Your Trip, So Be My Guest edition

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Outside Reading — The Revolution Will Be Recorded edition

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 Dan Seeger

The Language I Learned From Cassettes by Ben Ratliff This remembrance of the golden days when cassette tapes were invaluable strikes strikes right at a nostalgic vein that I find irresistible. Ben Ratliff deploys well-chosen details to capture the bygone … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Revolution Will Be Recorded edition

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Outside Reading — Mission Completed edition

July 20, 2019 Dan Seeger

Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman on the job by Erin Blakemore The fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11 touching down on the moon has brought the expected cascade of articles and television news features. By … Continue reading Outside Reading — Mission Completed edition

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Outside Reading — Right Track, Wrong Track edition

July 13, 2019 Dan Seeger

BEDTIME SONGS by Kiese Laymon Published in Oxford American, this essay by Kiese Laymon is lovely and moving in its purity. She writes evocatively about the experience of driving at night — with no particular geographic destination, just circling through … Continue reading Outside Reading — Right Track, Wrong Track edition

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Outside Reading — Life, Liberty, Etc. edition

July 6, 2019July 27, 2019 Dan Seeger

Meet the people fighting for health care access for disabled kids detained at the border by s.e. smith The grotesque immorality and abject cruelty currently being perpetrated against human beings attempting to immigrate into the U.S. — most of them … Continue reading Outside Reading — Life, Liberty, Etc. edition

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Outside Reading — The Right Thing edition

June 29, 2019 Dan Seeger

Megan Rapinoe Cannot Make This Any Clearer by Barry Petchesky This piece was written and published before Megan Rapinoe scored two goals to lift the U.S. women’s national team past their French rivals in the World Cup quarterfinals, cementing her status … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Right Thing edition

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Outside Reading — When She Squeezed Me Tight She Nearly Broke My Spine edition

June 22, 2019July 27, 2019 Dan Seeger

Banned: The song deemed ‘too dangerous’ for the BBC by Stephen Dowling In a marvelous act of research and wry summary, Stephen Dowling provides the details on around a dozen different songs that have received official bans from the BBC … Continue reading Outside Reading — When She Squeezed Me Tight She Nearly Broke My Spine edition

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Outside Reading — I Want a Little Sugar in My Cup edition

June 15, 2019July 27, 2019 Dan Seeger

An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men in Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene by Rachel Handler Look, it’s probably a stretch to call this article an oral history, since it’s really comprised of nothing more than two interviews — with … Continue reading Outside Reading — I Want a Little Sugar in My Cup edition

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Outside Reading — Ever So Curious edition

June 8, 2019 Dan Seeger

The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George by Rivka Galchen I’m always going to susceptible to a smart story involving Curious George, and this piece is smarter than most. For The New Yorker, Rivka Galchen explores how well the adventures about … Continue reading Outside Reading — Ever So Curious edition

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