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\"\"Last night Daniel Smith taught me the word anxiolytics<\/em>. It means \u201canxiety reducers.\u201d (Dan is the author of Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety<\/a><\/em>, so he should know.) His favorite nonchemical anxiolytic is Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em>. Mine, for now, is \u201cJesus Dropped the Charges<\/a>,\u201d by the O\u2019Neal Twins.\u00a0\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 1935 Silly Symphony cartoon\u00a0\u201cCookie Carnival<\/a>\u201d\u00a0raises so many questions, but most pressing:\u00a0What is a rum cookie? The highly enlightening\u00a0Wikipedia article<\/a> informs us that the\u00a0animated short, in which various varieties of baked good compete for the title of Cookie Queen, is a take on the Atlantic City bathing-beauty contests of the day, precursors to Miss America pageants. (Incidentally, the gingerbread hobo is voiced by the same actor who immortalized Goofy.) As a friend of mine commented, \u201cMisses Licorice and Coconut were robbed.\u201d And it\u2019s true: Sugar Cookie\u2019s easy victory (after she dons a blonde taffy wig, that is) is a testament to how little standards of beauty have changed, however much baked goods have. \u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leanne Shapton\u2019s Swimming Studies<\/a><\/em>, which comes out in early July, needs to be on everyone\u2019s bookshelf this summer. Or, more fittingly, in the pool house. And the latest Vanity Fair<\/em> has a fun article<\/a> about the origins of that hideously romantic painting The Singing Butler<\/em>, which I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll recognize once you see it<\/a>. \u2014Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHelpless<\/a>,\u201d by Poindexter. I heard this song playing in a store downtown and was convinced it was a new track by French electro band Phoenix. Poindexter gets it right with well-placed cymbal crashes and the type of moody synth that sound tracks an eighties teenage tryst on a foggy night. You can buy \u201cHelpless\u201d off fashion\u2019s jack of all trades (Kitsune) album Kitsune America<\/em>. SO DO IT. \u2014Noah Wunsch<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was infatuated with the 1992 U.S. men\u2019s Olympic basketball team, more famously known as the Dream Team. Jordan. Magic. Bird. Barkley. Legends at every position. Greats like Isaiah Thomas and Shaquille O\u2019Neal getting the cold shoulder. Has a greater team ever been assembled\u2014in any sport? GQ\u2019s\u00a0oral history<\/a> reminds me that, as\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u2019s David DuPree remarked, \u201cthere\u2019s 1992, and then there\u2019s all the other teams. You can flip a coin about which was the best of all the other teams. But \u201992 ain\u2019t in the coin flip.\u201d \u00a0\u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been savoring Benjamin Moser\u2019s new translation of\u00a0Agua Viva<\/a> <\/em>by Clarice Lispector. The thick damp heat of the subway complements Lispector\u2019s lush prose, and her poetic meditation on the nature of time and the \u201cmad, mad harmony\u201d of life is particularly suited for those late weekend nights when we wait interminably for the train that will take us home. \u2014Anna Hadfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arthur Koestler\u2019s \u201cThe Case of the Midwife Toad<\/a>\u201d\u00a0tells the story of Paul Kammerer, the Austrian biologist, pacifist, and the last sane man to ever believe in Lamarck\u2019s theory of inherited characteristics. In other words, the loneliest person in the world. Koestler describes the passionate and solitary battle that Kammerer fought against the scientific establishment in his attempt to prove Lamarckism. \u2014Arthur Holland Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night Daniel Smith taught me the word anxiolytics. It means \u201canxiety reducers.\u201d (Dan is the author of Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, so he should know.) His favorite nonchemical anxiolytic is Singin\u2019 in the Rain. 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