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THINGS WE
I’m writing this upon learning that The Good Wife
was snubbed by Emmy voters for Outstanding
Drama Series, which makes me wonder whether
they even watched the show. The Good Wife should
be nominated, it should be a frontrunner alongside
Breaking Bad, and the final tally of votes between
the two of them should be so close that they almost
tie. The Good Wife’s fifth season was as great as the
final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. The CBS show
launched years ago as a spectacular drama—something people believed they could find only on cable—
and has gotten better each season. Emmy voters are
likely hung up on the fact that it’s on network TV
but you shouldn’t be. The Good Wife is a landmark
television drama.
Da’Shawn
Mosley
This is not a perfect book—it could have been a few
pages shorter—but it’s one of the best novels I’ve
ever read in my entire life. Few novels become so
mainstream that they appeal to John Grisham fans and
highbrow literary critics but The Secret History is one
of those books. A tale of murder set on a college campus that tells you who did it on the first page, leading
you on a journey of discovering why it occurred, this
novel which Donna Tartt began when she was a sophomore at Bennington College is a cult classic.
I’m currently reading this for research on a novel I’m
writing and I can’t put it down. I’m not a die-hard
hip-hop fan at all but the story of the genre’s inception and rise of popularity is incredible. Dan Charnas
writes the narrative in such a moving and electrifying
way that it’s a pageturner.