TheNewsGal, Edition No. 107
What a week! These are the standouts.
All the things
CODA Star Troy Kotsur On His Historic, Healing Oscar Nomination: The deaf actor endured years of rejection and financial struggle. “I was so used to failure that I didn’t realize I would surpass even my own expectations.” Just awesome. (Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, ~9 min.)
The Millions Of People Stuck In Pandemic Limbo: What does society owe immunocompromised people? What a nightmare. (Ed Yong, The Atlantic, ~16 min.)
Stevie Nicks Is Still Living Her Dreams: The rock-and-roll icon talks about style, spirits, and writing one of her best songs ever. She’s a treasure. (Tavi Gevinson, New Yorker, ~30 min.)
Live auctioneering is a dying industry, with the pandemic pushing even more auctions and sales to online platforms. But professional auctioneer Eli Detweiler’s clear, precise, concise chant is performance art: massaging listeners to dig deeper for money they hadn’t planned to spend. Just a neat piece. (Jarrett Van Meter, Bitter Southerner, ~17 min.)
Kristi Yamaguchi won gold 30 years ago. American figure skating would never look the same. I’m a fan. (Robert Samuels, Washington Post, ~16 min.)
We Go Home. Trust me on this one. (Judy Sandler, Atticus Review, ~5 min.)
Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road To Serious Success. Love him. (Jonah Weiner, New York Times Magazine, ~30 min.)
Confessions Of A Bitcoin Widow: My husband started a cryptocurrency empire that made us rich. When he died, I learned it was just a facade. Un-put-down-able. (Jennifer Robertson and Stephen Kimber, The Walrus, ~25 min.)
Who Writes The Rules For Cops? After years of high-profile shootings, policing in America is under more scrutiny than at any time in our history. Meanwhile, one company seems determined to give officers cover. Ugh. (Rowan Moore Gerety, Esquire, ~25 min.)
The Common Tongue Of Twenty-First-Century London: Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect, Multicultural London English — and my American-born son is learning it. What a neat read. (Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, ~14 min.)
Opening Nightmare: Launching a restaurant into a world stricken by Covid and Brexit. Crazytown. (George Reynolds, The Guardian, ~24 min.)
“I More So Consider Myself A Con Artist Than Anything”: What Danielle Miller learned at Horace Mann and Rikers. This is why we can’t have nice things. (Gabrielle Bluestone, New York Magazine, ~26 min.)
Flour Trip: One woman’s journey into the heart of grain and how our flour is made. Fascinating. (Dayna Evans, Eater, ~30 min.)
Tinder Drove Me To Freeze My Eggs: I paid $10,000 to escape relentless swiping. Was it worth it? I feel you, girl. (Anna Louie Sussman, 1843, ~15 min.)
If you read one thing this week
Confronting The Eternal Youth Of Anna Chlumsky. This isn’t what I expected, in the best way. (Laura Puckett-Pope, Elle, ~13 min.)