Reading anything about TV Party is really the best way to start your week.

There’s some Junot Díaz in this week’s New Yorker.

Scott McClanahan talks to Brad Listi at the Other People podcast.

A dance to get rid of white people.

Americans need new skills.

Revisiting the blackout of 1977.

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