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This week on Slate Plus, Mike, Dana, and Laura discuss the cultural product that they’re most looking forward to watching, reading, or listening to in 2016.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss The Revenant: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a 19th-century fur trader on a quest for survival. Is it a masochistic slog, or is it a realistic portrait of the harsh conditions of the American frontier? Next up, professional organizer Marie Kondo released her latest self-help manual on tidying up. What do the gabbers make of her advice? Finally, Mark Edmundson discusses the role of profanity in a recent essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. How does profanity create communities and shape worldviews?
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- The Revenant
- Anthony Lane’s review of The Revenant in the New Yorker
- Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
- Laura Miller’s review of Spark Joy on Slate
- Marie Kondo’s first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- “On Shit: Profanity as Weltanschauung” by Mark Edmundson in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Jon Stewart’s segment on bullshit in the final episode of The Daily Show
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And by the 21st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Tune in live Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern time/5 p.m. Pacific to see who in film and TV takes the top prizes.
Endorsements:
Laura: The video game Don’t Starve
Mike: The video game Prune, George Lucas’ comments on Soviet filmmaking in his interview with Charlie Rose, and “The Force Awakens Is the Least Interesting Star Wars Yet” by Brian Merchant in Vice
Dana: “How to Get Rid of Clutter and Live Abundantly” by Mallory Ortberg
Outro: “Do It Clean” by Echo and the Bunnymen
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