Last day for Priestdaddy in the ToB.

The Rooster crows for nonfiction! It's time to finish Priestdaddy with bestselling author Sarah Hepola.

The Morning News

None of it. Scrap the whole damn thing. I can figure out where my bank is, if I have to.

The internet is on fire. Here’s what people would grab on their way out.
↩︎ Aminatou Sow / Twitter
9h
Especially in the United States, data shows that centrists are the least supportive of democratic institutions.
↩︎ The New York Times 13h
Bot.theater is an experimental play with randomly-generated characters and voices.
↩︎ Rhizome 14h
Anthropology textbooks have long used "exotic" and decolonized images on their covers. A reboot with white folks.
↩︎ Dori Tunstall 16h
A prodigious reader explains how he retains the best information from everything he reads.
↩︎ David Evans 16h
The "Great Man Fiction" style of book cover design started with Philip Roth novels and famed designer Paul Bacon.
↩︎ Fast Company 16h
A poll conducted in 144 countries shows a gender gap in bank account ownership that hasn't moved in seven years.
↩︎ Women's Advancement Deeply 16h

The most likely factor that someone is going to buy a subscription is that they already have a subscription to another service. And so we see pricing that reflects this reality.

We are living in subscription hell, but that’s mainly “a product of our own decision-making as consumers.”
↩︎ Tech Crunch
16h
For bankers to consider you "economy-class rich," you need to have at least $25 million.
↩︎ Bloomberg 16h

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value,” once mused a colleague of radio pioneer David Sarnoff. “Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?”

Examples from music history when the future didn’t turn out as planned.
↩︎ Red Bull Music Academy
17h
Here's a comprehensive list of women running for national and state office in 2018.
↩︎ The Center for American Women and Politics 17h

A quick profile of the former Buddhist monk who designed the ubiquitous soy sauce bottle.

17h

Today it seems to me that the whole world is Naples and that Naples has the merit of having always presented itself without a mask.

Elena Ferrante describes her writing process: where, how, and why.
↩︎ The Los Angeles Times
17h
A happiness skeptic finds a few things to admire in The Happiness Curve—where successful people feel unhappy.
↩︎ Ask Blog 17h
"In Search of Frankenstein" juxtaposes snow-covered mountains with "a network of eerie subterranean bunkers."
↩︎ Chloe Dewe Mathews 1d
Two writers are currently employed at LaGuardia Airport to write stories for you while you fly, ready when you land.
↩︎ The New York Times 1d
How a movie car designer imagines an autonomous supercar of the future.
↩︎ Jalopnik 1d
Paul Ryan promised Harley Davidson workers that corporate tax cuts would protect their jobs. Now they're fired.
↩︎ Vox 1d
Grimes's defenses aside, Elon Musk violated labor regulations with a tweet about unionization and stock options.
↩︎ Bloomberg 1d

The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge Reading List

The Tournament of Books Staff

More information coming soon, including our judges and summer reading schedule—in the meantime, here are the books we’ll be reading for this year's Rooster Summer Reading Challenge:

June

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)
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Tomb Song by Julián Herbert (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)

July

Census by Jesse Ball (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)
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Circe by Madeline Miller (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)

August

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)
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Kudos by Rachel Cusk (Amazon / IndieBound / Powell’s)

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