(Jeff Shepherd)
COVID-19 stories:
This quarantine/isolation/shelter-at-home thing we’re collectively experiencing right now? This is nothing. “Prepare for the ultimate gaslighting.” (Forge, ~8 min.)
How puzzles are made. Or, why it’s so hard to find puzzles in the time of coronavirus. (New York Times, ~3 min.)
Inside popular Washington, D.C., restaurant Thamee as the coronavirus shutdown forces the owners’ hands. (Slate, ~15 min.)
He visited Disneyland every day for 8 years. Until coronavirus. (Vice, ~6 min.)
Meet Cory, a 33-year-old anesthesiologist in Chicago, whose entire job now consists of intubating coronavirus patients so they can be put on ventilators. (Washington Post, ~8 min.)
This #SaveThePostOffice Twitter thread from a USPS mail carrier is a must-read. (Twitter, ~4 min.)
The best of the rest:
Michael Crane was the hot talent behind sports’ best video highlight reels. So how did he end up robbing a bank when he was supposed to be at Augusta, covering the Masters? (Sports Illustrated, ~15 min.)
Fran Lebovitz fan or no, this interview with the writer and quintessential New Yorker is a winner. I laughed out loud for real. (New Yorker, ~23 min.)
How Amazon’s self-publishing division became the place for white supremacists to spread hate. (ProPublica, ~19 min.)
Ed Mazria once was a draftee with the New York Knicks. Now, he’s leading the charge for architects and builders to defeat the climate crisis. (Delacorte Review, ~25 min.)
In sharing an unlikely silver lining of Kobe Bryant’s death, a Philadelphia sports columnist gets personal. I was in tears before I’d finished my coffee. (Philadelphia Inquirer, ~12 min.)
If you know someone who’d like this, send it their way. You can find the online, shareable version (and subscribe) here. For additional stories beyond the newsletter, you can follow The News Gal on Twitter here, on Facebook here, on Pocket here, and on LinkedIn here. Questions, comments, concerns, and story suggestions are always welcome — just hit reply.