The CDC is urging labs to accelerate testing patients hospitalized with flu to determine whether they have seasonal influenza or bird flu. / NBC News

The future of the West Coast is "hydroclimate whiplash," where, for example, mudslides are the result of wildfires followed by intense storms. / Defector

See also: In vast numbers, more homeowners who are eligible to do so are dropping their home insurance policies, even as climate risk increases. / The New York Times [+]

Imperialists who say America should annex Greenland or Canada also envision a world that's going down in flames anyway, so they may as well get rich off it. / Thinking about...

"In the spring, when it rained, I thought the rain was good. But it isn't good." Colm Tóibín on Gary Indiana's personal library, newly arrived in LA and lost to wildfire. / London Review of Books

Looking back at The Last Whole Earth Catalog: "How did all these good ecological intentions linked to tools go so wrong?" / Dada Drummer Almanach

Unrelated: "Hey man, didn't you just give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a private equity billionaire?" It's looting season in America. / How Things Work

Reviewing a phone Interview you recorded with David Lynch only to hear dead air where his voice is supposed to be is about as Lynchian as it gets. / The Ringer

When David Lynch decided to live "the art life," he began a journey that left few creative mediums unexplored. / Welcome to Hell World

See also: From last August, "The Sound World of David Lynch." / The Wire

A 100-year-old piano virtuoso is the last surviving pupil of Sergei Rachmaninov. / Classic FM

TMN's Andrew Womack on the year in under-appreciated albums. / Andrew Womack's Newsletter

Younger fans empathize with how Joan Baez's toxic relationship with Bob Dylan is depicted in A Complete Unknown: "It's currently happening to girls everywhere." / The Guardian

See also: Bob Dylan joins TikTok days before it may be banned. / Consequence

On living in the West Village today: "We were essentially living in a museum—self-consciously, nostalgically, hopefully." / First Things

"I mean, yeah, you can have your 'story' about why you're on a walker." Catching up with a guy who had his legs surgically lengthened by three inches. / Heavies

From the archives: Photographs from a cross-country trip to document streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / The Morning News