August mailbag!
This month: the works of John Crowley, our personal AI policies, and movies that could have used a sex scene.
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Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Six
We're talking irony, sincerity, and, of course, Randy Lenz.
The memories of a deadly pandemic hidden in one of America's most beloved films
Art about pandemics and plagues rarely gets made after the fact. Yet here's the Spanish flu in It's a Wonderful Life.
Dolly Parton never met a song she couldn't make her own
Also: A trip to the Minnesota State Fair, The End of Oak Street, and America's reigning Garfield princess
Tim Curry's major scenes in Rocky Horror, ranked by their potential to awaken something deep inside of you
Or in me, specifically.