Listening, Watching, Reading

May 12, 2022

This week we hear from two Pulitzer Prize winners, investigate “Dead Ringers” on Amazon, see how A.I. is transforming pop music, and more.

This week we hear from two Pulitzer Prize winners, investigate “Dead Ringers” on Amazon... more

Hosted byAvery Trufelman

Curated byMatthew Horovitz, Hark Contributor

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir “Stay True” by Hua Hsu

Terry Gross of Fresh Air kvells over Hua Hsu’s Taiwanese-American memoir of adolescence, friendship, death and hip hop. And Hsu is embarrassed at how into Nirvana he was.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir “Stay True” by Hua Hsu

Fresh Air

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Artificial Intelligence Is Taking a Chainsaw to Pop Music

Have you heard the new Fake Drake song? Or Fake Nirvana track? Computer generated music using A.I. is here, and already changing the face of popular music.

Artificial Intelligence Is Taking a Chainsaw to Pop Music

Rolling Stone Music Now

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What Are the Best Scripts of the Decade? #WGA

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins of The Big Picture answer a mailbag question pertaining to the Writers Guild Strike - What are the best scripts written this decade?

What Are the Best Scripts of the Decade? #WGA

The Big Picture

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The Radical and Amazing and Electrifying Amazon series “Dead Ringers”

The Slate Culture Gabfest responds to the new Amazon TV adaptation of David Cronenberg’s body-horror classic “Dead Ringers.”

The Radical and Amazing and Electrifying Amazon series “Dead Ringers”

Culture Gabfest

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The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver’s ferocious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Demon Copperhead” takes Dickens’ David Copperfield and transposes him to poor white Virginia, with fentanyl.

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book Case

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Hosted by

Avery Trufelman

Curated byMatthew Horovitz