6 Advice Podcasts for Navigating the Strangeness of Everyday Life

[ad_1] Getting started: “How Many Friends Do I Need?” Slate was one of the earliest players in the podcast game. Political Gabfest It started in 2005 – so it’s no surprise that the long-running advice column “Dear Prudence” made a successful transition to audio. Between 2016 and 2021, on that podcast, Daniel M. Lavery (who …

Actress Painter of Everyday Life Wayne Thiebaud dies at 101

[ad_1] Wayne Thiebaud is the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and brilliant paintings of hot dogs, deli counters, marching bands and other fascinating relics of mid-century Americana are complex meditations on life and painting, representing one of the most expressive and individualistic. His variations on 20th-century Pop Art died Saturday at his home in …

Victorian Poet Trying to Capture Everyday Life in His Own Poetry

[ad_1] Another strength of the biography is the clever comparison between Barrett Browning’s care for pets (especially the often-abducted Spanish Flush, famous for his pseudo-epic biography of Virginia Woolf) and his care for his servants. Both were alarmed, both read; But when the chips went down, employers’ whims always eclipsed the needs of employees. In …