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It's the 2020 Tournament of Books! The Semifinals conclude with Normal People facing off against Saudade.

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Google presses pause on its tradition of April Fool's jokes in light of the coronavirus.
↩︎ The Verge 2d

We spend our days spearing Internet-delivered raspberries with the baby fork. “Mama help,” she says sometimes, plaintively. She needs something but she doesn’t know exactly what it is. I know exactly what I need: another human body.

A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19.
↩︎ The New York Review of Books
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Twenty-eight years ago, Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope on TV. The time since has been "incredibly isolating."
↩︎ The Washington Post 2d

A tape of John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Roy Brooks and others playing loose versions of bebop standards in 1958.

Found in a round-up of clips of famous musicians and bands in rehearsal.

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Is this the first film to be made completely in quarantine? It's definitely one of the better ones (with a celebrity cast almost entire found on cameo). From Ben Berman, director of The Amazing Johnathan Documentary.

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Fashion designers are desperate to make masks and gowns for healthcare workers, but can't find proper guidance or materials.
↩︎ GQ 2d

Sports commentators are out of work, too.

But some like Nick Heath find other things worthy of play-by-play.

Find more through the hashtag lifecommentary. 

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H-E-B has been preparing for pandemics since 2005, but it didn't see the run on toilet paper coming.
↩︎ Texas Monthly 2d
Yet more stuff to watch: all of the short films that were supposed to debut at SXSW.
↩︎ Mailchimp 3d

The real issue is where to redirect demand. For that question, public health experts are of more use than Keynesian economists.

How the macroeconomics of Covid-19 do and do not resemble WWII.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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How American views of the crisis evolving: slightly more worried, also slightly more satisfied.
↩︎ Lawfare 3d
What Donald Trump's coronavirus briefings are really about: an insecure man needing to feel reassured and praised.
↩︎ The Week 3d

A social distance walk through the seemingly empty streets of Rotterdam.

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Further evidence of athletes enjoying themselves indoors.

Skiier and seven-time World Cup champion Andri Ragettli demonstrates his balance with an indoor course.

Also, how to skate your house:

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