What Saunders said.
A batch of Associated Press photographs, many harrowing, depict the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the 100-day mark. / The Associated Press
President Biden urges Congress to work on gun control. Minutes later: another shooting. / Al Jazeera
The US adds 390,000 jobs in May in another month of strong growth. / The Washington Post
The world has 1.2 billion cars, and only one in 70 is electric. "It needs to be one in six." / The Economist
OPEC agrees to pump more oil. A Chevron station in Los Angeles is charging $8 a gallon for regular gas. / CNN, Los Angeles Magazine
In 2022, the top-earning lifeguard in LA received $510,283. Almost 100 guards were paid at least $200,000. / Open the Books
White noise podcasters are climbing the charts, earning tens of thousands of dollars a month with static. / Bloomberg
Lauren Collee: We need new ways to talk about time for the digital age, which don't presume a static relationship to time that's common to all. (Meanwhile, a man gets bitten by deadly snakes for science.) / Real Life, National Geographic
Gen Z discovers Kate Bush through Stranger Things. / Vogue
From 2018, composer Nico Muhly explains how he writes music—why, where, when, and with what equipment. / The London Review of Books
A good review of the Kronos Quartet performing an opera about Mỹ Lai, the massacre of more than 500 Vietnamese civilians. / VAN Magazine
For your weekly soothe, related to one we previously featured, wood shop meets an exercise in stop-motion filmmaking. / TMN
Accusations of plagiarism have long haunted Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose. They look to be entirely correct. / ALTA Magazine
See also: Wallace Stegner and the trap of using other people's writing. / The New Yorker
Author George Saunders offers different ways to write a good ending—or, as he puts it, how to stop without sucking. / Story Club with George Saunders
Kelsey Weekman: I started reading a book a day so I could be perceived online as a reader. Now I can't stop reading. / BuzzFeed News
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