our dreams feel real while we're in them
Kendall Jenner and Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala in New York this week
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This week's subject line is a quote from the film Inception (2010). I'm currently listening to the Unspooled episode about it and enjoying the trip back in time.
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Hi there,
Just a quick one from me this week - I've got comedy to practise!
Enjoy the sunshine, Londoners x
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Links of the week
Maybe I would substitute storytelling for writing and I would say it helps me to see the story as something that is already written. The story is daring you to be the one to draw it out into existence. The story is saying “Are you going to be the one?” It’s a challenge.
It can be annoying, to say the least, to have others want to figure and sort you out. But there is a strange power in ambiguity, too. For those seconds that someone is eying you, confused and unsure, you have defied their parameters of race.
Being there was formative for me, and I don’t regret it. But I need to take some time – possibly the rest of my life – away. Decompressing and dealing with all this required changing the material circumstances of my work, and so here we are. You can do incredible work inside newsrooms, and you can also lose yourself there.
Out of The Newsroom (via Mic Wright's newsletter)
That they’ve both been depressed is the beginning of their bond, after a match on Tinder and an awkward date. That Felix is also kind to his dog completes the cornball Hollywood logic of his appeal, a redeeming quality in a dumbass bore.
Despite the conventionality of the contents of her novels, Rooney is often casually characterized as something of a radical. The New York Times describes her as a “funny, cerebral Marxist,” and Alexandra Schwartz writes in the New Yorker that “capitalism is to [Sally] Rooney’s young women what Catholicism was to Joyce’s young men, a rotten national faith to contend with.” But however funny, cerebral or Marxist Rooney may be in person, her fiction is about as politically radical as it is formally adventurous—which is to say, not very.
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That’s all from me! Thank you for reading, I’ve been and continue to be Suchandrika Chakrabarti.
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