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| WHAT TO READ | | | Killing Commendatore — Give It a Green Light. What does every lonely portrait painter need? A mysterious painting in an attic that’s a portal to another world, obviously. Reading Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, released in the U.S. last month, is like taking a rambling walk through a dusty museum … one that’s full of mysteries and references to The Great Gatsby. Plus Nazis, the underworld and a bell that won’t stop ringing. | SUGGESTED BY: Rich Burns /Ghost Finder |
| Red Notice — All-True Thriller. Anyone can write a political thriller, but author Bill Browder actually lived one … and then wrote about it. And Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice tells it right. Browder, a former hedge fund honcho, investigates the death of his tax accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, whose 2009 death in a Russian prison so horrified the international community that it inspired the Magnitsky Act. | SUGGESTED BY: /Fact Chaser |
| American Tabloid — Camelot, or Not. James Ellroy will one day get you: He’s been writing for so long that eventually, you’ll realize you’ve fallen in love with him. Check out Ellroy’s take on the Kennedy years … which he casually dismisses as being about not much more than “looking good and getting laid” before showing you a version that’s a complex dance of the CIA, FBI and Mafia. An ideal counterpoint to Oliver Stone’s JFK. | SUGGESTED BY: /Mystery Solver |
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| | | WHAT TO LISTEN TO | | | Some Shitty Cover Band — The Best Imitations. Minnesota no longer has Prince, but if it’s any consolation, it still has Some Shitty Cover Band. The name aside, this is a really freaking good cover band, a four-person setup that knows how to give the people what they want, which is somebody else’s music. These are not deep cuts — think “Come On, Eileen” and “Mr. Brightside” — but it’s a brilliant way to spend an evening, combining the energy of a live band with the shout-out-the-words-ness of your Friday-afternoon Spotify playlist. Speaking of that, if you can’t get to the northern U.S. to see the band in person, you can enjoy Spotify playlists of their sets (from the original artists, natch). | SUGGESTED BY: Jacob Ames /Party Animal |
| King Princess — Pop but Also Poetry. There’s nothing shameful in loving bubblegum pop music, no matter what Bradley Cooper says in A Star Is Born. But King Princess, aka 19-year-old Mikaela Straus, is a gorgeous combination of poetic and fun. Her debut single, “1950,” sounds like a standard love song, until you listen closer and realize it’s about queer culture and novelist Patricia Highsmith. Her EP, Make My Bed — on which she plays all the instruments, NBD — was released earlier this year. | SUGGESTED BY: /Love Song Expert |
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| WHERE TO TRAVEL | | | Terengganu, Malaysia — Undiscovered Paradise. What are cozy autumn nights for if not daydreaming about perfect, warm beaches? And Terengganu, on the east coast of Malaysia, is where you should go for those beaches. There are five-star resorts there if you’re that way inclined (and who among us is not at least a little bit that way inclined?).
Enjoy little wooden cabins, hammocks you can float in and monitor lizards that just paddle around like they own the place. Wait, do they own the place? Resorts in the area hold cooking classes, take you on jungle walks or guide you on bike rides through local villages where you can drink teh tarik (hot milk tea, if you’ve never had the pleasure) and munch on roti while making a plan to stay on the beach forever and never go back to real life. | SUGGESTED BY: Sophia Akram /Vacation Queen |
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| | | | | | Stop Believing. A 73-year-old man who’s been broadcasting pop records out of his shed in Hertfordshire, England, since 1974 has been given a one-hour radio special on local BBC radio over Christmas. Deke Duncan’s previous listener base consisted of his wife, Theresa, who listened from their living room, as Duncan didn’t have a license to broadcast more widely. | SOURCE:
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