[list] good reads and links: wk 2020-04-27

April 27, 2020

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links

• [Bandcamp] Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Fix My Quarantine
• [The Pudding] Identifying Generational Gaps In Music

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reads

• [New York Times] 260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus
• [Vox] The editor of Taco Bell Quarterly explains how to make art out of a fast food brand
• [New York Times] How I Found Common Ground With My Immigrant Dad on a Tennis Court
• [NPR: Planet Money] Why Remote Work Sucks, According To Science
• [GQ] Why the T-Shirt Is the Soul of New York Fashion
• [Vox] THe novel frugality
• [The Economist] Death of the office
• [Gothamist] Your Local Laundromat May Become The Next Hyped Merch Aid Drop

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obits

• Richard Hake, WNYC Anchor
• Fred The Godson, Rapper

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music

• [The New Yorker] A Pre-Pandemic Night Out with Stephen Malkmus
• [NPR Music] Movie Recommendations For Quarantine Viewing From Protomartyr’s Joe Casey
• [Los Angeles Times] Amoeba Music won’t reopen original Sunset Boulevard store: ‘We have no choice’
• [New York Times] Library of Congress Unveils New Digital DJ Tool
• [Stereogum] Sounding Board: Dynamite Hack’s “Boyz In The Hood” Paved The Way For 20 Years Of Awful Acoustic Rap Covers
• [The New Yorker] Kim Gordon Is Home Again

Would you attend a show before there is a vaccine?

— Oh My Rockness (@ohmyrockness) April 28, 2020

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rona-related

via Desus & Mero

• [New York Times] Opinion: How to Save Summer 2020
• [Gothamist] Entrepreneurs Are Hustling To Trademark Coronavirus For Merchandising
• [Vox] Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus
• [The New Yorker] April 15, 2020: A Coronavirus Chronicle
• [The Atlantic] The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever
• [Financial Times] Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported
• [ProPublica] “There’s No Such Thing as Returning to Normal”: We Answered Your Questions About Reopening America
• [ProPublica] What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t
• [The New Yorker] Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not
• [Nature] The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
• [New York Times] When N.Y. Needed Hospital Space, Film Location Scouts Pitched In
• [Nw York Times] Together Apart? How About Totally Losing It?
• [The New Yorker] A City Nurse
• [Buzzfeed News] After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators
• [New York Times] How Coronavirus Mutates and Spreads

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podcasts

• [Lifehacker] How to Be Creative Right Now, With Jerry Saltz

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misc

Keeping in shape with my favorite workout video, the critically-acclaimed 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense pic.twitter.com/2aV3MZ9fBB

— alicia cougar mellencamden (@aliciacamden) April 26, 2020

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