“Good TV is not merely good TV (i.e. better-than-average TV), but TV that is so good it deserves to be taken as seriously as great films and even great Literature (yes, with a capital ‘L’). As such, watching Good TV and discussing Good TV are qualitatively different than watching and talking about other kinds of TV. The emergence of Good TV is a rather big deal in the recent history of American culture. It may well be one of the top two or three cultural developments of this still-young century.” Todd Hasak-Lowy dissects the TV revolution. (Pair with: our own Michael Bourne on the new age of cable and Broadway.) (h/t The Rumpus)
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Lend Us Your Ears (And Win $100)
Have you ever heard of a dog-ear poem? Finding one could net you $100 and a one-year subscription to Found Poetry Review.
On the Road with Hurston and Hughes
Yuval Taylor tells the story of a fortuitous road trip, on which Zora Neale Hurston drove Langston Hughes from Mobile to Tuskegee.
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the looking glass of this language
This National Geographic piece on the desire to document and preserve the world’s many dying languages is great.
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1963 Was a Nice Year for Criticism
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Offshoots
Recommended Reading: Our own Elizabeth Minkel on Sherlock and fan fiction. You can also read another essay of hers on fan fiction here at The Millions.
Got tired of hearing people talk about Breaking Bad so I finally gave in and watched it and I have no idea what anyone is talking about. It’s just more of the same. People crying and screaming at each other and guns and violence and sturm and drang and so on and so on. Same shit, different decade. You all can have your television shows and binge all you want and then try and convince everyone who doesn’t watch what you watch that what you watch is better than anything else if that makes you feel good about your television addiction.