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The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 11

We’re in the home stretch of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, as we begin our final book of the season: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. We’re again joined by our August judge, Emma Straub, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

A photo from Cape Canaveral of a rocket blasting off through this month's Perseid meteor shower.

↩︎ NASA 1h

“If I had seen myself reflected in any of the media I consumed growing up, it would’ve helped me understand myself really sooner, or given me the validation I never really got.”

The many ways coming-out videos are an enormous help to those who can’t, won’t, or haven’t yet.

↩︎ WIRED

From the archives: How Aretha Franklin teaches us to persevere through life's most trying moments.

↩︎ The Morning News 1h

Channel *Blade Runner* and enhance images to prevent crimes in a brilliant, voice-controlled game by Nicole He.

↩︎ ENHANCE.COMPUTER 1h

Anecdotally, the more Trump attacks the media, the more college students are interested journalism degrees.

↩︎ The Atlantic 1h

The active ingredient in Roundup is detected in nearly all popular oat-based snack bars and cereals in the US.

↩︎ The Guardian 1h

“When that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the shit out of you. And you’ll know—you’ll swear—that she’s still the best fuckin’ singer this fucked-up country has ever produced.”

Much has been said about Aretha Franklin, but no one said it as well as Billy Preston.

↩︎ The New Yorker

To hit its recruiting targets, the US military would need to lower its conviction, education, and health standards.

↩︎ The American Conservative 2h

This intricate, exhaustive diagram depicting the history of alternative music is worth staring at for a while.

↩︎ WIRED 2h

In Southwest Australia, the indigenous calendar has six seasons—now it's Djilba, first spring, season of conception.

↩︎ Indigenous Weather Knowledge 2h

Speculative journalism: It's 2190, and black Houstonians are redlined into neighborhoods exposed to rising seas.

↩︎ Motherboard 2h

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a DMT-inspired temple/artwork by a couple who met and dropped acid together in 1975.

↩︎ The Architect's Newspaper 2h

Live in Oakland? Sign up for a sociological study on how people share public space daily.

↩︎ Sidewalk Interactions 2h

Ruling that Pastafarianism isn't a religion, a Dutch court says a follower can't wear a colander in ID photos.

↩︎ The Guardian 2h

Austere, symmetrical images of synchronized swimmers, by photographer Mária Švarbová.

↩︎ Laughing Squid 4h

To move from speaking standard, which is to say white, English to employing black linguistic patterns or slang successfully is a sonic journey for which there are few, if any, shortcuts.

How Sorry to Bother You and BlacKkKlansman are raising the question of what it means to “sound” black.

↩︎ The Atlantic

After funding setbacks, a Colorado school district moves to a four-day schedule, which could save $1 million a year.

↩︎ NPR 4h

To see how Republicans will defend a possible Trump n-word tape, recall wha they did after Access Hollywood.

↩︎ Vox 5h

Since 2001, the Thai government's "gastrodiplomacy" has helped its cuisine surge in the West.

↩︎ Munchies 5h