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We're 'me-maxxing' so much, we're saying 30% fewer words a day than we did 20 years ago

From Tom Wolfe's "Me" decade of the 1970s, to the convenience economy of the 2020s, we're "me-maxxing" our time, and we're talking less as a result.

Fortune

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: A triumph of molls, dolls and deadpan humour

After any chapter of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, I feel as though I am reading a particularly operatic story by Damon Runyon, complete with molls, dolls and Broadway-laden side-eyes. It is the kind of widescreen social drama that immediately reads like a screenplay. With pitch-perfect colloquialisms and deadpan humour, these…

Evening Standard

Harlem Shuffle review: This book is a proper social drama

The book has shades of Tom Wolfe about it, if Tom Wolfe had been a very different writer, that is

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What were you reading in the 90s? 5 literary experts go back in time

What were you like in the 90s? This question is a social media trend right now, with achingly nostalgic slideshows of old photos, set to music.

The Conversation

"I don't think I would have become a writer without that summer of Aggie" – author Louise Candlish shares the 5 books that changed her life

As Louise's new novel A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder flies off the shelves, she confesses to doing a weird thing to her childhood favourite book, and the book that fills her with "evil glee"!

Woman & Home

A Town Without Time by Gay Talese review – New York by an old master

The colour and detail in this collection of nonfiction by the grandfather of New Journalism brings the city to gripping, dazzling life

The Guardian - UK

John Collison on Stripe Billing’s rise, books, and 'the tyranny of being first'

Stripe’s Revenue and Finance Automation division, anchored by Stripe Billing, crossed $500 million in annual revenue run rate at the end of January.

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When the Wolfe is at the door, music comes to the fore

The Wolfe Brothers might collaborate with The Wiggles, play NRL half-time shows and top the charts, but they're no strangers to the cost-of-living crisis.

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Is A Man In Full based on a true story? Here's whether the new Netflix hit is fiction or a true tale

The drama-filled miniseries has fans wondering if there's any truth to the unbelievable plot...

Woman & Home

The Shocking, Explicit Ending of 'A Man In Full,' Explained

The Netflix series follows the rivalry between a bankrupt real estate mogul and a banker.

Marie Claire

The week in TV: Miriam: Death of a Reality Star; The Tattooist of Auschwitz; A Man in Full; Shardlake; Michael Palin in Nigeria – review

TV continues to circle around tragic reality star Miriam Rivera; Sky’s Auschwitz drama is more love story than horror; Jeff Daniels leads a bristling Tom Wolfe adaptation; and Disney’s fine Shardlake does CJ Sansom proud

The Guardian - UK

A Man in Full review – skin-crawling Trump satire is a worthy Succession replacement

Jeff Daniels rages as a crooked real-estate mogul staring into the abyss of bankruptcy in this lavish take on Tom Wolfe’s novel. It’s just a shame the swearing can’t compete with the real deal

The Guardian - UK

Netflix's A Man In Full looks even more like Succession's successor in its full trailer

Jeff Daniels is here to kick ass in this new trailer for the hotly anticipated Tom Wolfe adaptation featuring skullduggery and Shania Twain.

TechRadar

A Man in Full: episodes, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Jeff Daniels Netflix drama

David E. Kelley created the TV adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel A Man in Full. Here is everything you need to know about the limited series.

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Netflix's Succession-esque new show, A Man in Full, gets its first mysterious trailer

Netflix's new drama of power and revenge looks like it could fill that Succession-shaped hole.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Books of the year: The Evening Standard team choose their favourites

The Evening Standard columnist has infantilised Rupert Murdoch once before, in 2008’s The Man Who Owns the News, a magnificent biography that many in his family are still fuming about; so this fabulously gossipy book is a sequel of sorts, even if it does have a broader remit. And while…

Chicago Sun-Times

A flop at first, ‘The Right Stuff’ ascends to the level of a classic

The great space epic, which turns 40 this month, still thrills with its expert casting and dazzling visuals.

The Conversation

In Killers of the Flower Moon, true crime reveals the paradoxes of the past

Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann that chronicled a true story of Osage Indians being systematically murdered in the 1920s.

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The Independent UK

Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein film is nicely affectionate – fake nose and all

Cooper is effortlessly charming in a film that’s been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, and his co-star Carey Mulligan is magnificent

USA Today Sports Media Group

Lynch: Jay Monahan opens up on his health, but stays positively mum on his Saudi deal

Monahan's shareholders in the locker room primarily have one yardstick (money) and one concern (how they’ll get more of it).

Tribune News Service

The resurrection of the North Wilkesboro Speedway — and the larger hope it represents

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — These were some of the scenes of resurrection here last Wednesday, 11 days before the first NASCAR race in more than 26 years at the North Wilkesboro Speedway:

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Sielski: Sixers owner Josh Harris is close to buying the Commanders. That’s not great for the Eagles.

If Josh Harris didn’t exist, Tom Wolfe would have had to create him, then tweet about him. Harris is a thoroughly modern Master of the Universe, a man who made billions in private equity and who, like Gordon Gekko, creates next to nothing but aims to own everything. And in…

The Guardian - UK

What links The White Lotus to Tom Wolfe and the Sicilian good life?

The second series of the scathing social satire ignites a chain of terrible rich people swanning about in Italy

The Guardian - UK

Enjoy your trip: books, music, films and more for an out-of-body experience

From Gaspar Noé’s death-dream to Elgar’s emotionally charged choral composition, our critics recommend culture to take you into another dimension

WEKU

Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell has died

Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

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