Sep 16, 2019Those of us who spent hours contemplating their dream cast of the book loved the idea of Gwyneth (who’d act as a producer) playing Camilla Macaulay, the sole female member of the ancient Greek gang. Might Ethan Hawke or Leonardo DiCaprio round out the cast? We could dream.
↩︎ Town & Country

23hThey were hungry, and as they feasted the rib bones cracked with a haunted resonance that echoed across the flat breaks into the canyon and mingled with the thunder roiling in the coming blackness.
↩︎ McSweeney's
24hAre people who write strictly from their own backgrounds being unnecessarily cautious, or will a Nigerian schoolgirl protagonist written by a ninth-decade white Irish novelist be seen by the future as the equivalent of Olivier’s Othello?
↩︎ The London Review of Books

1dThe concerns of a member of Congress focused on political messaging aren’t the concerns of a prosecutor. And when a single document tries to speak to both sets of goals at the same time, compromises will have to be made.
↩︎ Lawfare

A public dataset of 37,921 portraits culled from yearbooks from 115 American high schools in 26 states between 1905 and 2013 were used to chart the rise and fall of "big hair."
H/t data is plural.

