Morning Bites: Bad Amazon Hires, Walt Whitman’s Bad Timing, Philosophical Gin, Michelle Orange, and More

On gin and philosophy.

Did Amazon hire neo Nazis in Germany? That’s really no good…

Michelle Orange talks to Largehearted Boy about the music she listened to while writing This is Running for Your Life.

When William Burroughs met Nike.

Walt Whitman’s bad timing.

From Jeopardy legend to what? Kevin Lincoln talks with Ken Jennings.

PopMatters has an excerpt from Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy, Revised and Expanded Edition: Gennett Records and the Rise of America’s Musical Grassroots. We’re pretty excited to read this one.

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