16 March, 2024

Lee Sung Jin: Beef
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Jeffrey Gibson: An Indigenous Present
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“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

–Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

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2 March, 2024

Damien Chazelle, Sony: Whiplash
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Terrance Hayes: Watch Your Language
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“It was a pleasure to burn.”

–Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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20 February, 2024

Matthew Heineman, Netflix: American Symphony
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Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe: When McKinsey Comes to Town
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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3 February, 2024

Sam Esmail, Netflix: Leave the World Behind
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Olatunde Sobomehin, Sam Seidel: Creative Hustle
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

–George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

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20 January, 2024

Elvis Mitchell, Netflix: Is That Black Enough for You?!?
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Carlo Rovelli: The Order of Time
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“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”

–Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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25 December, 2023

Amit Bhalla, Lucas Jansen, Apple TV+: Hello Tomorrow!
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Jesmyn Ward: Let Us Descend
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

–Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Quote of the Week

9 December, 2023

Justin Spitzer, NBC: Superstore
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Deepak Bhargava, Stephanie Luce: Practical Radicals
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

–Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Quote of the Week

25 November, 2023

Phoebe Robinson: Everything's Trash
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David Lurie: Dreaming the Street
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“Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”

–Toni Morrison

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