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Christine and the Queens recommended Night and Day by Joe Jackson in Music (curated)

 
Night and Day by Joe Jackson
Night and Day by Joe Jackson
1982 | Rock
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I grew up with this album, and I remember being really sensitive to the different musical styles. It's quite a New York album, as well—all the different styles melting into one city. This is a really witty album. There's a true masterpiece in it, "Real Men," which was queer before it was a huge subject of conversation, quite gender-bending—questioning this idea of being a man and what that means. Musically, it's really rich, and very frilly as well: lots of long songs with improvisation. It's an interesting and empowering album."

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Yoko Ono recommended Every Man Dies Alone: A Novel in Books (curated)

 
Every Man Dies Alone: A Novel
Every Man Dies Alone: A Novel
Hans Fallada | 2019 | History & Politics, Humor & Comedy, Romance
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This is fiction, but it impressed the hell out of me even though I very rarely have time to read fiction these days. It is the New York Times book review “Notable Book of The Year,” as well. It gives the account of Germans who fought Nazism and were killed or put in jail for life by Nazis for it. A German citizen is killed just for dropping cards all over the city writing his objection of Hitler’s policies. His wife was also sentenced to death, and was in jail indefinitely"

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Sharon Jones recommended The Wiz (1978) in Movies (curated)

 
The Wiz (1978)
The Wiz (1978)
1978 | Action, Classics, Musical
4.9 (7 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I really loved The Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. I remember hearing that Stephanie Mills, who played the part of Dorothy on Broadway, wound up not getting the part. They had to change a lot of the details for the story to make sense for Diana Ross — that’s what got me interested to go see it. And then to see Michael and all the other stars in it. It was also really amazing how they transformed New York City into the fantasy world of an urban Oz."

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Brian Raferty recommended Smithereens (1982) in Movies (curated)

 
Smithereens (1982)
Smithereens (1982)
1982 | International, Drama
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"In the early ’80s, Seidelman made two of the coolest movies ever made back-to-back. First came this urgent, spiky punk-rock fable—with its striving outsiders and crazy rhythms—and then the great Desperately Seeking Susan. Both present a vision of Manhattan as a broken, semi-lawless amusement park in deep decline—a version of New York City that was long gone by the time I arrived there in 1999. Watching Smithereens is like being teleported to a far-off planet that’s about to be colonized."

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William Finnegan recommended Liebling Abroad in Books (curated)

 
Liebling Abroad
Liebling Abroad
A.J. Liebling | 1981
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This is cheating because it’s four books in one. But Liebling wrote so well about so much, a compendium is merited. Two of these are reporting from World War II, where no other writer, in my opinion, could touch him. “The Road Back to Paris” is an epic dispatch full of hard times and the finest lyricism. The other two books are about France, food, wine, memory, boxing. I wouldn’t argue if you insisted that Liebling’s greatest subject was actually New York City, or even Louisiana. It’s too bad there’s not a twelve-pack."

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