Flint, my hometown, and Detroit, where I live now, are both underrepresented in literature and disproportionately burdened with the narratives of outsiders. The usual story, the dying city narrative, goes something like this: cars, white flight, deindustrialization, poverty, blight, undrinkable water. This story usually comes with familiar illustrations: ruin porn pictures of abandoned houses picked
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Under the new hours-watched weekly metric charts implemented by Netflix back in November, the Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds re-team, The Adam Project, exploded with 92.4 million hours watched by the streamer’s subscribers for the week ending March 13. The figure includes all hours watched for the movie, both those who’ve watched the movie once and multiple times.
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A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House on Tuesday warned that the U.S. won’t have enough booster shots and life-saving Covid treatments for Americans
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News Third Man Records to Issue Prince’s Previously Unreleased 1986 Album Camille The late musician recorded the LP under his alter ego before shelving it By Nina Corcoran March 15, 2022 Facebook Twitter Prince (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Third Man Records have revealed plans to issue Prince’s previously unreleased 1986 album Camille.
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Circular Fermi surfaces create a ring-like shape in trilayer graphene. (Courtesy: IST Austria) Last year, experimentalists at Harvard University in the US made an unexpected discovery: three layers of graphene are better than two at conducting electricity without resistance. At the time, the reasons for this unusual superconducting behaviour were unclear. Now, however, theorists in
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Even before its publication, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, Melissa Febos’ fourth book and her first on craft, has reignited conversations about the impulse to write—and silence—stories of violation and trauma. But Body Work is not a manifesto for literary suffering. It is an articulate call for understanding writing, especially autobiographical writing,
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WASHINGTON — NASA is ready to roll out the first Space Launch System rocket this week for a countdown rehearsal ahead of a launch later this year. Agency officials said at a March 14 briefing that they had completed reviews for the scheduled March 17 rollout of the SLS from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
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