What I highlighted the week of March 7, 2021

Mar 13

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This 1988 essay in The NYT Book Review by a recently naturalized Bharati Mukherjee is more than 30 years old but still incredibly inspiring and a call to arms for immigrant writers that doesn't quite seem to have been taken up.
Good interview with Stripe's Patrick Collison who is always a pleasure to read.
The New Yorker had a somewhat surface-level piece on the spread of conspiriacy theories among Evangelicals in America. There's a lot more here, though, of course.
The Baffler's satirical essay on how to become a Silicon Valley intellectual was pretty much on target.
Caitlin Flanagan's long read in The Atlantic about private schools was fascinating and scary. But I would have liked some more introspection about why she sent her kids to private schools after seeing early versions of their problems from the inside.
I loved Lee Isaac Chung's Minari and this short essay about how he started the process of writing it was wonderful. As was this appreciation by Alexander Chee.
Vivian Gornick's descriptions of her journeys through feminism are quotable from start to finish.

We continued our rewatch of Mad Men. And started Wanda Vision, which hasn't really clicked for me.

I started listening to "Smartless" with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. They get great guests but I'm not sure it's a very good podcast otherwise.