It’s Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations:
“David Lynch Is Back … as a Guru of Transcendental Meditation†by Claire Hoffman (New York Times Magazine): The story of the director’s search for enlightenment and his plan for creating world peace.Â
“L’Étranger†by Lauren Collins (The New Yorker): The saga of France’s most famous tax exile, Gérard Depardieu.
“Freakshow†by Natasha Vargas-Cooper (Out): A look inside weirdo-loving production company World of Wonder.
“Inventing Marilyn†by Caitlin Flanagan (The Atlantic): A meditation on the things we read about Marilyn Monroe and the things she read herself.
“Gchatting with George Saunders†by Katherine Bernard (Paris Review Daily): Self-explanatory.
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