Here’s Everything That Got Us Through This Week.

This week we astatine Lit Hub sought heavy focus, wise Dad energy, and salt. We celebrated surprises and anniversaries. We looked outpouring successful nan look and said, do your worst.

Speaking of nan season. Drew Broussard is “reallllly digging” a 2023 Kali Malone album, Does Spring Hide Its Joy. He insists this record—an ambient, durational groove featuring 3 agelong drones for cello, guitar, and sine-wave oscillator—is “probably nan champion penning inheritance of each time.” Happily for fans connected a roll, Malone has a heavy bench. Two weeks ago, nan experimental composer reissued her 2019 breakthrough, The Sacrificial Code, to overmuch acclaim. And if drones aren’t your bag, here’s different listening recommendation.

James Folta has what he describes arsenic a turbulent narration pinch sunflower seeds. But this week he and nan salty snack reentered a honeymoon phase. (“The market shop adjacent maine stocks nan bully Turkish seeds, and I can’t get capable of nan small guys.”)  Though reliable to crack, deez nuts besides make bully fidget spinners. Pair them pinch nan drones and get cracking, each ye connected deadlines.

I sewage joyousness this week from an original movie—Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker. This madcap, IP-flaying odyssey is precocious pastiche. Drew takes purpose astatine nan superhero franchise, and nan clubby drama world. But it’s also a coming-into-self communicative astir her transition, employing wholly caller animation and applicable effects. Every framework amazed me, and that made for specified a bully viewing experience. We tin still beryllium surprised astatine nan movies. Isn’t that nice?

Jessie Gaynor drew inspo from a three-part bid connected Tay Zonday, AKA Adam Bahner, of “Chocolate Rain” fame, connected nan podcast Sixteenth Minute (of Fame). Bahner describes his life “before and aft virality” and “delivers an perfectly fascinating speech connected nan governmental discourse of his opus that touches connected Ellison, Derrida, Chomsky, nan algorithm, Black Lives Matter, and Occupy Wall Street (among galore others). And of course, his speaking sound remains wonderful.”

Jonny Diamond wouldn’t person made it done a very stressful week if it weren’t for different periodically viral presence—Jon Hamm.  Your Friends & Neighbors, Hamm’s newest show connected AppleTV, is not a drama per se, but apparently scratches an itch for a mid-century matinee idol successful nan Cary Grant idiom. According to our EIC, “Hamm comes very adjacent to nailing that uncommon handsome/funny/pathetic 1940s movie prima persona.” And we’re present for it. Elsewhere successful bully TV Land, we’re getting reports that Dan Sheehan has yet caught nan Hacks bug. To everyone other connected nan fence, travel connected in, nan water’s smart!

In IRL news, Molly Odintz attended nan 11th day statement of La Reunion, nan Austin lodging cooperative she helped recovered (and name!). And Julia Hass went to Schmuck, a Manhattan cocktail bar, wherever she also enjoyed a salty surprise. A cocktail pinch cheese successful it. Who’da thunk.

We wish you a play of imaginative inspiration, oohs and aahs, and savory bites/sips. Hang successful there.