What Blurbs Really Mean | The New Yorker

This might sound silly, but I keep mine in the bathroom! It just felt a little pretentious putting it on the living-room mantle. Like, “Ooh, look at me, I’m a big-shot Oscar winner and don’t you forget it!” I suppose the back of the toilet is a bit irreverent. . . . But you’ve got to keep your…

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A new, seven-part series on Apple TV+ unfolds like a period-piece Columbo. First John Wilkes Booth plans and commits the murder, then the lead investigator deciphers clues to catch the elusive killer. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. On Friday, Apple TV+ presents the first two episodes of a new seven-part historical miniseries. It’s…

(bell ringing) [Narrator] Every year, Forbes magazine publishes a list of 30 people under 30. 30 outstanding individuals. This is a different group. The 30 over 30, people who happen to be over 30 years old. All these people are alive. They made it onto this list for no particular reason. Today I did the…

There’s a moment towards the end of Adelle Waldman’s new novel, Help Wanted, where a smart-but-insecure young woman named Nicole, who’s a worker in a big-box store, approaches her manager to ask him what he thinks about her ambition to go to college. The manager, nicknamed “Big Will,” is a good guy, but he’s distracted….