Don’t get her wrong, though. Dacus, a Grammy-winning musician, just prefers to have conversations in person. How we talk (or why we don’t) with the one we love is a theme on her new album.
Category: Books and Literature
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Lucy Dacus Might Not Text You Back
Don’t get her wrong, though. Dacus, a Grammy-winning musician, just prefers to have conversations in person. How we talk (or why we don’t) with the one we love is a theme on her new album.
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Curtis Sittenfeld Goes Home Again
The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.
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How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?
Five recent books collect photographs, memories and ephemera from the hardcore band Agnostic Front, the mysterious dance artist Aphex Twin, the rap collective Odd Future and more.
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: If You Want This Kind of Love, Don’t Expect It to Be Easy
After a difficult divorce, Samaiya Mushtaq found the love of her life — and the courage to support his volunteer work in Gaza.
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Laura Sessions Stepp, Who Reported on Teenage Sex, Dies at 73
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, she went on to write about “hookup culture” and young women’s sexual experiences for The Washington Post and in a best-selling book.
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Jake Heggie’s Adaptation of ‘Moby Dick’ Comes to the Metropolitan Opera
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author With a Cop’s-Eye View, Is Dead at 88
In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the realities of law enforcement.
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Ione Skye Was an Enigma in Her 1990s Heyday. Now She’d Like a Word.
In her new memoir, the actress known for movies like “Say Anything” and “Gas Food Lodging” talks about Hollywood, bisexuality and the trappings of Gen X fame.
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Why Are We So Obsessed With Blue?
The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers.
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Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Why Gossiping Could Help Your Love Life
Kelsey McKinney, author of the new book “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” talks about the joys and problems gossiping has brought to her relationships.