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Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.
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We’re big fans of essays that combine cultural criticism with memoir, and Larissa Pham’s
Pop Song especially sings when the writer turns her eye to art and pop culture. In her debut book of nonfiction memoir by way of interconnected essays Pham interweaves a recounting of her life thus far with her thoughts on James Turrell, Anne Carson, Frank Ocean, and Agnes Martin (extra points for not mentioning Maggie Nelson in “Blue,” Pham’s essay on Martin). Through her sensitive, curious telling, Pham lobbies for the way in which art can help people learn more about themselves.
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Ashley Spurgeon is a lifelong TV fan nay, expert and with her recurring television and pop-culture column And Another Thing, she ll tell you what to watch, what to skip, and what s worth thinking more about.
Television shows fall into easy categories: game shows, daytime talk, nighttime talk, drama, sitcom, reality, news. Those are the categories invented for marketing purposes, to sell products to you, the happy television consumer. (One time I paused
30 Rock and ran around the corner to buy a McFlurry, which they d mentioned in the show pathetic!) Then there are the categories of how we watch them: This is the background crap I have on when I’m cooking dinner, this is the intense prestige hour-long dramady we watch on Sunday nights to remind us that the weekend is over, and so on. Of these personal categories, one of my favorites is the “Winding down before bed” show.