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Friends, the time has come for the annual thread of links.
Around the holidays, I like to share stuff from the year (culture, politics, news, whatever) that I found compelling in the hopes that you'll find something you missed that you find compelling too,
Around the holidays, I like to share stuff from the year (culture, politics, news, whatever) that I found compelling in the hopes that you'll find something you missed that you find compelling too,
Let's start off with a few favs! This essay Gabrielle Hamilton wrote in the spring about her restaurant, restaurants in general, time, and the pandemic deals so elegantly with so much and is a great read https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-restaurant-covid.html
This story about the NBA wine club inside the bubble is cool, but especially cool are all the logistics of the NBA bubble itself https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/nbareturn29599276
These short interviews with black hair stylists are filled with little great lines and insights of personality, such as: "Every time I wear color, I just feel vibrant. And I know when people see color on me they get the same feeling." https://www.allure.com/story/black-hairstylists-at-home-during-covid-19
Jerry Saltz revisited a bunch of renaissance (or similarly old) paintings year and each is a true, immersive delight (you learn something, it's fun to read, everything!), and I especially enjoyed this one on Castagno's and da Vinci's The Last Supper https://www.vulture.com/article/jerry-saltz-the-last-supper.html?utm_source=tw
Sadly, I ended that first tweet in this thread with a comma, so I'll just have to look at that for the rest of the month, but luckily the year's been so terrible that I won't be deterred by it
And lastly for now, this is a gripping, unique, and deeply affecting account of what Uighurs detained in China go through when the police come for them https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/china-ex-prisoners-horrors-xinjiang-camps-uighurs
More links! This a great story about logistics, supply, and the enormous pressure on individuals to make decisions during the pandemic — the last grocer in a N.C. county trying to keep people supplied, stay in business, and not get sick https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-supermarket-supply-chains-north-carolina-11587133800
Can't recommend enough this story on a teacher in San Francisco and several of his students; it follows their spring semester as they try to make it to the AP test, some of them under enormous constraints https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/13/advanced-placement-coronavirus/?arc404=true
These anecdotes about Carl Reiner from other actors (and what a kind and funny person he was) are really a delight to read https://www.avclub.com/the-nicest-man-in-show-business-random-remembrances-1844229986
Here's the rare interview about the pandemic (this is from very early on, in March) that is actually funny and heartening, with an 84-year-old Alabama native who now lives in Phoenix https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-interview-elderly-gertrude-johnson-howard.html
