The stories a grandfather on the Dingle Peninsula told his grandson of a visiting American, a scholar who took video with a hand-crank camera, led to the discovery in Chicago of hours of silent film reels from 1925 and 1926. - The New York Times
"Nonfiction writers make mistakes, too, of course. But not on the first page. As soon as I discovered my falsehood, I vowed to turn my back on nonfiction forever and write nothing but poetry, a genre in which you’re encouraged to lie." - LitHub
The actor, in the middle of yet another Marvel publicity tour, says he's about ready to quit acting and return to his first love, dancing. - The Guardian (UK)
One poet sped home from a teaching gig in Lebanon; another was diagnosed with breast cancer as the pandemic burst forth. "In many ways, their poems also convey just how different their lives were, even though they were living just 5 miles from each other." - NPR
Why? "Protesters accused Anna von Hausswolff of playing the 'devil's music.' But the priest who cancelled her planned Paris show said that was wrong." What year is this again? - BBC
Maybe! No spoilers (in this summary; the article contains a lot of spoilers), but "Peloton could reasonably consider litigation, especially if HBO did not disclose the story line involving the product." - The New York Times
Shares of Peloton, the fitness equipment company, fell 11.3% Thursday — tumbling to a 19-month low — after a key character in HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” revival, “And Just Like That,” was shown dying of a heart attack after a 45-minute workout on one of the company’s exercise bikes. - Variety
The plan is "to bring a more modern look to Notre-Dame before its planned reopening in 2024, including the installation of contemporary artworks and new lighting effects. Opponents say the changes will debase the 850-year-old cathedral and disturb the harmony of its Gothic design." - The New York Times
The culture that connected people of my generation was popular television and music. I noticed when I traveled that bookstores were as crammed with seasonal novelties as shoe stores; and used bookstores — this has been one of the saddest developments of my lifetime — had mostly disappeared. - Liberties Journal
In a higher education system financed mostly by tuition dollars, the customer is king. Colleges and universities have become full-service lifestyle stations, competing for students. But why is everyone is somehow finding their best selves in really nice gyms, dormitories, and dining halls? - Liberties Journal
Not only is the Canadian copyright crisis now called “the Canadian flu” in international book publishing circles but—for those who love silver linings—it’s believed to be working as a vaccination-by-example to help ward off similarly disastrous legislation in markets far from Canadian shores. - Publishing Perspectives
The decision, which came after more than a yearlong review by the museum, was reportedly mutual and made “in order to allow the Met to further its core mission,” according to a joint statement issued by the Sackler family and the institution. - Artnet
"A dead mall, while eerie and odd, is strangely difficult to interpret. Tempting to see it as an Ozymandias-like portent of the collapse of capitalism, but it's surely not, or not quite. … How are these castles to consumerism crumbling while the system they represented lives on?" - Slate
"In opera, the external is the internal." 2. "In opera, all speech is dream speech, whether it wants to be or not." 3. "Opera transforms pain into pleasure." Composer Matthew Aucoin, whose Eurydice just finished its run at the Met, explains. - Literary Hub
