RT DavidGrann: This is a very illuminating piece on John Hersey and the evolution of the art of nonfiction newyorker.com/magazine/2019/… NewYorker

Through interviews and newly obtained documents, mikespiesnyc reveals the dire financial state of the N.R.A., and the threat to its tax-exempt status as a non-profit. nyer.cm/evq9YLp

Most of the year, Kitzbühel, a medieval town in the Tyrolean Alps, is a fancy resort, with swank hotels and shops. But the Hahnenkamm ski race transforms it into a riotous carnival—part Indy 500, part South Padre Island. nyer.cm/epQzrci

Summer Rayne Oakes, an activist and model, has more than a thousand plants growing in her Brooklyn apartment. How does she do it? nyer.cm/MQdVoC4

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A Q. & A. with Neal Katyal, a lawyer and a professor at Georgetown Law, who, in 1999, helped draft the special-counsel regulations that guided Robert Mueller’s investigation. nyer.cm/AGYrH6w

It's April 24, 2019 at 01:00AM, good morning people!!

The playwright Lucas Hnath’s first performance was at a Florida megachurch, where as a child he delivered sermons accompanied by magic tricks.
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The Birds (1963)

What's the best way to post about Coachella on your social-media accounts? Instagram has a seminar for that. nyer.cm/6Gui7zL

A new biography of the writer John Hersey shows how his editors at Knopf and The New Yorker tried for years to steer him back toward journalism and away from fiction.
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NASA Social Media Efforts Win Two Webby Awards via NASA go.nasa.gov/2ITc3gO

The attacks in Sri Lanka demonstrate that ISIS still has global reach, despite the caliphate’s collapse: nyer.cm/oqGDpyY

As Americans look to Georgian food for inspiration, Georgians look to the literary hero and culinary muse sometimes called the country’s first feminist: Barbare Jorjadze. nyer.cm/EiBPQuu

In China, the public may be catching onto the idea that being in power is better than relying on those in power—and that information is power. nyer.cm/E2GxODl

In “Killing Eve,” on BBC America, murder and lesbianism feel existentially linked, like two great tastes that taste great together, emilynussbaum writes. nyer.cm/kF43f08

Cheap seed packets present a tempting world of possibility—full of heritage radishes, golden wallflowers, and red Russian kale. nyer.cm/TLXezYB

At Kanye West’s pop-up church service, there is no sermon. There are no readings. It is just music. And you have to sign a N.D.A. to get in. nyer.cm/qGyePEM

Stacks House, a pop-up that costs $38 per ticket, is part-financial inspiration, part-photo op.
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