| End of the Line |
[25 Aug 2015|09:45am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/08/katrina_anniversary_the_second_line_has_become_a_symbol_of_new_orleans_resilience.html A couple of months after Hurricane Katrina, as public officials debated whether and how to rebuild heavily damaged sections of New Orleans, Michelle Longino and Tamara Jackson planned a parade. The event, a local tradition called a second line, would consist of brass bands and groups called social aid and pleasure clubs dancing through the ruins of the city. The parade was meant to stake a claim to the city’s historically black neighborhoods on behalf of their former residents, who were still scattered across the country in the wake of the flood. The idea came from Longino, who, in the black, working-class world of second lining, was white and middle class. Jackson, who is black, and grew up on a second-line route, helped her track down members of dozens of clubs, who were eager to sign on.
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| Tramps Like Us |
[25 Aug 2015|02:11pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2009/09/tramps_like_us.html Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Born to Run, the album that rocketed Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to stardum. In 2009, Louis P. Masur wrote about the album’s recording and how it almost wasn’t released. The original is reprinted below.
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| How Does a Book Editor Work? |
[25 Aug 2015|05:07pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/working/2015/08/jordan_pavlin_of_knopf_how_does_a_book_editor_work_a_working_podcast_transcript.html We’re posting transcripts of Working, Slate’s podcast about what people do all day, exclusively for Slate Plus members. What follows is the transcript for Season 3, Episode 6, in which Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to Jordan Pavlin, a book editor at Knopf, about how she identifies future best-sellers, works with talented but sometimes temperamental authors, and fights for her book within the publishing house. Plus, for the Slate Plus bonus segment, Pavlin explains to Harris about how she answers the most common question she’s asked: Will you read my novel? To learn more about Working, click here.
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| Hello, Friend |
[25 Aug 2015|06:35pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/08/mr_robot_on_usa_network_reviewed_the_show_represents_the_new_tv_archetype.html The unreliable narrator is commonplace in fiction, but not in television. On TV, narration is often used to pull viewers into a familiar blandness, a genre and tone they’ve experienced before. (See Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Burn Notice, among many others.) When the narration is more distinct and stylized, with a perspective all its own (see Arrested Development, Jane the Virgin, Pushing Daisies, How I Met Your Mother, among many others), it is still inviting, friendly, and cutely apologetic when it—oops!—misleads an audience.
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