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Culture
Culture comes in many forms and we’ve tried to cram as much as we can into this week’s episode. Richard Ayoade takes us to the movies with his inimitable perspective on perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. We get the chance to speak to cultural icon Debbie Harry, who shares what it was like to be in the New York of the 1970s and involved in music, fashion, art and filmmaking. And essayist Jia Tolentino talks about the influence of the internet on our culture and why we should be very careful about what we give up to social media.
Another bone dry parody of cinematic pretension from the comic genius that is Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top recasts turgid Hollywood ‘dramedy’ View from the Top as a seminal masterwork of modern film. A marvel of sustained pastiche and clockwork timing.
From the New Yorker’s brightest young talent comes a scintillating collection of essays that masterfully map the millennial mindset against the increasing disorientation of modern life. Wise, witty and blisteringly perceptive, Trick Mirror is a hugely important contribution to the ongoing socio-political debate.
A luminous collection of bitingly intelligent essays around the theme of loss, A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a unique volume by a towering modern intellectual.
Something of a modern classic, Laing’s singular memoir draws from art, culture and deep personal experience to weave together a transcendent study of loneliness, its causes and consequences.
Dynamic, passionate and unabashedly nostalgic, Greenlaw’s love letter to pop music and the culture that swirls giddily around it is written with a kinetic lyricism that befits the beats and rhythms of the form. Charting first kisses, messy break-ups and complicated friendships through pop’s shimmering gauze, The Importance of Music to Girls is a triumphant slice of autobiography.
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Is Trick Mirror going to be restocked?
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