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This week on Slate Plus, the critics speak about the Hamilton backlash and media backlashes in general.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss Key and Peele’s first feature, Keanu, with Aisha Harris. Is it as satisfying as their Comedy Central sketch show? Next up Leon Neyfakh discusses his article in Slate about how iTunes has destroyed his will to build a music collection. The gabbers share their similar experiences of digital woe. Finally, the critics discuss men’s book clubs and the gender dynamics of literature.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Keanu
- Key and Peele
- 21 Jump Street
- The Wire
- Harold and Kumar
- John Wick
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Orange Is the New Black Season 3
- Jessica Jones
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
- Hamilton
- Leon’s article, “Apple Destroyed My Will to Collect Music” in Slate
- The blog post titled “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.” published on Vellum Atlanta
- Jennifer Miller’s piece in the New York Times, “Men Have Book Clubs, Too”
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Endorsements:
Laura: The crime fiction of Elizabeth Hand, in particular Hard Light and Generation Loss.
Julia: The internet outrage machine. In particular the furor surrounding Mike Tyson’s appearance in Law and Order: SVU, Season 14, Episode 13, “Monster’s Legacy”, in which his character is exonerated of a previous conviction.
Steve: Transparent.
Outro: “Wrapped Up in Books” by Belle and Sebastian
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