What a week!
Here's what you missed.
Inside the burgeoning art of costume design for animation, with Frozen 2 as case study. (The New York Times, ~6 min.)
A pointed essay on art in the age of Trump, by the ever-wise Lin-Manuel Miranda. (The Atlantic, ~7 min.)
What it's like to run a food truck for the laboring class in Bel-Air, the richest zip code in L.A. (Los Angeles Times, ~10 min.)
Tom Junod, the journalist behind the quintessential 1998 Mister Rogers story in Esquire, reflects on their unlikely and enduring friendship. (The Atlantic, ~30 min.) (Here’s the original story. Esquire, 37 min.)
A lesson in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail while losing 100 pounds and sharing your progress with eager — and overeager — followers on YouTube. (Outside, ~15 min.)
Ten deployments as an elite Army Ranger; a damn-near-fatal head injury in Afghanistan; and worldwide fame at the Obamas' side. This is what came next. (New York Magazine, ~29 min.)
A visit to Anna, Ill., a town where black people famously weren’t welcome after the sun went down. I can't stop thinking about this one. (ProPublica, ~25 min.)
The book editor for The Art of the Deal takes us back to the time when Trump truly became Trump. (The New Yorker, ~14 min.)
A rape survivor couldn’t imagine the ordeal of a trial. Instead, she met her alleged rapist face-to-face. (BuzzFeed News, ~10 min.)
How an illustrator’s touching Instagram posts became a bestselling children’s book, just in time for the holidays. (The Guardian, ~3 min.)
In South Dakota, a young farmer's family is left reeling after crushing debt drives him to suicide. (The Washington Post, ~12 min.)
A journalist on the front lines of the climate crisis debates whether or not to have kids. (Sierra Club, ~11 min.)
Why a moral workplace just might be “2020’s stealth political issue.” Absolutely brilliant. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, ~8 min.)
Robert E. Lee is buried at Washington and Lee University, just an hour's drive from Charlottesville, Va., home of 2017's fatal Unite the Right rally. Inside the school's fierce debate over how to reconcile the Confederate leader's legacy. (The Delacorte Review, ~30 min.)
What's next for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the virtuoso who brought us Fleabag? (Vogue, ~19 min.)
When a third-generation fisherman attached GoPros to his trawling nets, the video feeds from the ocean floor showed gold bricks. GOLD BRICKS. Then things really got crazy. (San Francisco Chronicle, ~73 min.)
Why it’s such a thrill to watch Jennifer Aniston get angry. (BuzzFeed News, ~13 min.)
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