Recommended Viewing: As this year’s World Cup heats up, take a look at what may lie ahead. E:60’s piece on the shameful set-up for Qatar’s 2022 tournament should be an eye-opener in a lot of ways.
The Beautiful Shame
“When it gets loudly, IT GETS VERY LOUD INDEED”
Have you Yanks seen BBC's 6-episode series cum feature film The Trip? If not, your interest will be piqued by this clip of the show's main characters doing their best Michael Caine impressions. It's on Netflix if you're into laughter, merriment, and that sort of thing.
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Slave Driver
Recommended Reading: Katherine Sunderland on Michael Bundock's The Fortunes of Francis Barber.
Trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Part 10: Space Hygiene: "Unfortunately, removing the helmet created a situation where the body odors were forced out of the neck of the pressure suit..." Check out this funny and artful trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.
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#1000BlackGirlBooks
If you haven’t heard about Marley Dias, you have now. She has launched the #1000BlackGirlBooks book drive to collect one thousand books with black girls as the protagonists, which will be donated to a library in St. Mary, Jamaica. Did I mention that she’s eleven years old?
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Lacework
“The plot, obviously, is kind of difficult to explain, like an earnest, pared-down, hipster Foucault’s Pendulum. Not only are all of the plot turns above laid out through a multiframed narrative, replete with several people’s footnotes, but the events are interwoven with disquisitions on the history of map-making, Situationist philosophy, urban planning, and pop music.” At Slate, our own Lydia Kiesling reads Catie Disabato’s The Ghost Network. (ICYMI, Dan Lopez reviewed the book for The Millions.)
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