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- Maybe put an end to The End of the Tour?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About the steps Bernie Sanders has to taken in order to make his campaign more racially inclusive? —Drew Hunt
• This barn-burning interview with Camille Paglia (otherwise known as “an interview with Camille Paglia”)? —J.R. Jones
• About the growing generational wealth gap and that “today’s young people are poorer than young people of the past”? —John Dunlevy
• That gay and transgender American Catholics have asked for a meeting with Pope Francis during his visit to the U.S. next year, asking him ” to acknowledge their rejection by the church, and to welcome them as full members with equal access to sacraments like baptism and marriage”? —Kate Schmidt
• That today is Professor Irwin Corey’s birthday? (The comedian, who was hip when Lenny Bruce was around, is 101.) —Tony Adler
• Film critic Glenn Kenny on his late friend David Foster Wallace and the “ghoulish” The End of the Tour, an adaptation of journalist David Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace? —Drew Hunt
• About “What’s up at RedEye?” —John Dunlevy
• Or see this map of the definitive borders of MLB fandoms by zip code? (The official Cubs-Sox border is the Dan Ryan.) —Aimee Levitt