“I remember standing on the street and seeing it on a newsstand and literally it stopped me in my tracks,” Jessica says of the cover. This ability to capture a moment has gotten harder to do, she ads, since reading magazines or watching television has become
a much more private endeavor and also on your own speed and on your own timetable. Before, we had to wait and go watch in public or on the television. When CBS New played the thing, we watch the thing. So I think it's a much harder target to hit if you are running a magazine, if you are a showrunner for a television show…
Also mentioned this week:
- NSA Prism program slides
- Cosmopolitan, The world according to Jonathan Van Ness
- Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror
- Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me,
- NPR, Beck's 'Hyperspace' is a Bright Bubbly Breakup Album with Beats by Pharrell
- Beck, Hyperspace on Spotify or vinyl
- Underworld, Oblivion with Bells
- Tomato
- New York Times, 1619 Project, Episode 3:The Birth of American Music
- Esther Perel, Where Should We Begin?
- Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story on Netflix
- Errol Morris, American Dharma
- Fleabag Season 2 on Amazon
- Chernobyl on HBO
- Anni Venti in Italia at the Piazza Ducale, Genoa
- The Viking Ship Museum, Oslo
- Vecchio Amaro del Capo
- BrewDog, Nanny State Can 6-Pack
- Monthly membership for Athletic craft nonalcoholic beer
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