“I didn’t know what “Crucify yourself” or “Crucify myself” meant or what “Hanging with the raisin girls” meant but I think as a teenager it’s good to listen to and read stuff that you don’t fully grasp. I think teenagers crave that. I still do it.” Chloe Caldwell writes about Tori Amos for The Rumpus.

• The Low Times brings together Jaded Punk Hulk and Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon. Extra points for the Red Bank backdrop.

• If you’d like to see a photo from Ang Lee’s Life of Pi adaptation, Vulture has you covered.

• If you’re in Chicago and would like to see a number of short plays inspired by Bruce Springsteen songs, this is your week.

• Harper’s has made a 2002 Ellen Ullman piece on artificial intelligence available.

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