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For Lanyadoo, it was important to make the book inclusive to all, including those who live outside of the gender binary, and to forego the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em>, written in collaboration with journalist and editor T. 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This is a massive transit, and yes, we are going through major Plutonian themes.” In other words, we as a society are going to be confronted with our wrongdoings and the work ahead to fix them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stars can also help us understand history, Lanyadoo says, and how it relates to the present. “The last time that planet Uranus was transiting through the sign Taurus, which is happening right now, was when we had Hitler,” she says. “And again, we are seeing a rise in authoritarianism.” [aside postid='arts_13872290']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em> is not all darkness and destruction, and in light of Valentine’s Day coming up, I ask Lanyadoo about what the planets have in store for us single folks and hopeless romantics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m a big believer in following the flow of your life. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like many Russian immigrants who came to the Bay Area in the 1990s, my childhood was full of weekly pilgrimages to San Francisco’s Richmond District. On Sundays, my family and I would get dressed up to attend Russian Orthodox church on Geary Street, buy olivier salad and pickled cabbage by the pound at \u003ca href=\"https://www.newworldmarketsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New World Market\u003c/a> and take in the aromas of pirozhki and other baked goods at \u003ca href=\"http://cinderellabakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinderella Bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With bellies full, we’d stroll down Balboa Street to \u003ca href=\"https://www.globusbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globus Books\u003c/a>, the Russian bookstore that feels like a time capsule, with its Persian rugs, towering shelves of dusty tomes and a distinctive old-library scent. 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And in my early twenties, I tripped out on Victor Pelevin’s drug-addled, darkly funny Gen X novel \u003cem>Generation P \u003c/em>(the P standing for \u003cem>pizdetz\u003c/em>, or screwed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globus, opened in 1971, has remarkably stood the test of time, serving several generations of Russian immigrants, including those who came as Jewish refugees during the ’70s and ’80s, and the rest that followed after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as the Richmond District changes, and as the Russian community gets priced out along with other immigrant populations in San Francisco, the decidedly niche business has found itself in need of switching up its approach as it enters a new decade, hoping to preserve its older generation of customers while attracting younger readers and non-Russian speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Globus Books has been a cornerstone of the Bay Area's Russian community since 1971.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Globus Books has been a cornerstone of the Bay Area’s Russian community since 1971. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For new owner Pavel Chepyzhov and managers Julie Kulyamzina and Zarina Zabrisky, that means embracing the diversity of the Bay Area’s Russian-speaking community, as well as people curious about Russian culture and literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“On one side you have Russian speakers who came from China after the second world war, and they are very different from the Russian speakers who are immigrating right now to Silicon Valley,” Chepyzhov offers, adding that Georgian and Armenian cultures also occupy a prominent place within the Bay Area’s Russian-speaking world. “They have a lot of books in common and Globus could be the place where they all could meet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books about Russian feminism and LGBTQ+ people have also recently made their way onto Globus’ shelves. And the store now has a growing English-language section on Russia and the former Soviet Union. (On my last visit, I picked up Lydia B. Zaverukha and Nina Bogdan’s visually stunning \u003cem>Russian San Francisco\u003c/em>, full of historical photos dating back to 1840.) One of the goals, Chepyzhov says, is to spread awareness about the culture beyond what Americans hear in the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately the Russian politics, of course, doesn’t get the best media for obvious reasons,” he says. “But I think talking about books and about culture—this is what we want to promote, this is what is appreciated in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabrisky, a writer known for her work with progressive activist group the Arts Resistance, is in charge of new event programming for the space, including author talks, readings and screenings coming later in the year. The first new event series is story time for toddlers, happening every Wednesday at 10:30am starting Feb. 5. It fulfills a core part of Globus’ mission to help Russian-speaking parents pass on their language and culture to the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in love with this bookstore, with its history, its accomplishments and what it is for the Russian community here,” says Kulyamzina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Chepyzhov, both from Moscow, are antiquarian book specialists who spent the last several years frequenting Globus during trips to book fairs on the West Coast. Globus founder Vladimir Azar originally ran a publishing house focused on Russian immigrant authors, earning the shop a cult following among Russian-speaking bibliophiles around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B5gdLgCpxse/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Chepyzhov learned that former owner Veronica Ahrens-Pulawski, who presided over Globus’ shelves since the early ’80s, was looking to retire and sell the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me maybe 10 minutes to draft a plan in my head of how we could work together on that and try to keep Globus alive, and try to keep this business going,” he says, adding that Ahrens-Pulawski—whose dynamic personality has long been a draw for Globus’ loyal customer base—still helps out twice a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Globus team’s progressive vision is a rarity for the Russian-speaking immigrant community in the United States, which leans conservative; older generations who escaped communist rule have an aversion to anything that sounds remotely socialist. If San Francisco’s Russian newspaper \u003cem>Kstati\u003c/em> (full of right-wing op-eds written in the key of “well actually”) is any indication, it’s likely that many of San Francisco’s Russian-speaking immigrants voted in the 2016 election along similar lines to those in New York’s Brighton Beach, the biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.brickunderground.com/live/how-did-your-neighborhood-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patch of red\u003c/a> in mostly blue Brooklyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Chepyzhov says there’s more than enough room for diverse voices and perspectives at Globus. “It’s one of our goals to show the alternative side of things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873175\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4204.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Globus managers Julie Kulyamzina (left) and Zarina Zabrisky (right). \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He points to portions of the Russian-speaking immigrant community that are rarely mentioned in the media—such as queer and trans asylum seekers escaping anti-gay laws. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Like many Russian immigrants who came to the Bay Area in the 1990s, my childhood was full of weekly pilgrimages to San Francisco’s Richmond District. On Sundays, my family and I would get dressed up to attend Russian Orthodox church on Geary Street, buy olivier salad and pickled cabbage by the pound at \u003ca href=\"https://www.newworldmarketsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New World Market\u003c/a> and take in the aromas of pirozhki and other baked goods at \u003ca href=\"http://cinderellabakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinderella Bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With bellies full, we’d stroll down Balboa Street to \u003ca href=\"https://www.globusbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globus Books\u003c/a>, the Russian bookstore that feels like a time capsule, with its Persian rugs, towering shelves of dusty tomes and a distinctive old-library scent. As a child, I delighted in Soviet-era picture books like \u003cem>Dyadya Fyodor\u003c/em>, about a precocious boy who runs away from home to live with a dog and cat. In my teen years, I explored intimidating stacks of classics by Dostoevsky and Bulgakov, and art books from the Hermitage Museum of my native Saint Petersburg. And in my early twenties, I tripped out on Victor Pelevin’s drug-addled, darkly funny Gen X novel \u003cem>Generation P \u003c/em>(the P standing for \u003cem>pizdetz\u003c/em>, or screwed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globus, opened in 1971, has remarkably stood the test of time, serving several generations of Russian immigrants, including those who came as Jewish refugees during the ’70s and ’80s, and the rest that followed after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet as the Richmond District changes, and as the Russian community gets priced out along with other immigrant populations in San Francisco, the decidedly niche business has found itself in need of switching up its approach as it enters a new decade, hoping to preserve its older generation of customers while attracting younger readers and non-Russian speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Globus Books has been a cornerstone of the Bay Area's Russian community since 1971.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/IMG_4241.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Globus Books has been a cornerstone of the Bay Area’s Russian community since 1971. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For new owner Pavel Chepyzhov and managers Julie Kulyamzina and Zarina Zabrisky, that means embracing the diversity of the Bay Area’s Russian-speaking community, as well as people curious about Russian culture and literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The New York Public Library has been loaning books for a long time—the institution turns 125 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate, the library dug into its records and calculated a list of the 10 books that have been checked out the most in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most-wanted book? \u003cem>The Snowy Day\u003c/em> by Ezra Jack Keats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmZCQfeWjeQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldecott Medal-winning tale of a young boy’s encounter with snow has been checked out 485,583 times from the NYPL since it was published in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shares qualities with many of the other most-borrowed titles: The beautifully illustrated book has been around a long time, it’s well-known and well-loved, and it’s available in numerous languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is such a relatable story, and pure magic for kids and adults alike,” Andrew Medlar, director of the library’s BookOps selection team, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/january-13-2020/classic-childrens-story-snowy-day-tops-new-york-public-librarys\">in a statement\u003c/a>. “It’s on people’s radar screens, they remember when they first heard it, and they want to share that experience with their kids. And the artwork is just gorgeous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s books make up a large part of the list. That’s not too surprising—short books can be read faster and are returned more quickly. Even the more adult books on the list, such \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> and \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, are rather slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one nonfiction book appears on the list: \u003cem>How To Win Friends and Influence People\u003c/em> by Dale Carnegie. The self-help juggernaut was published in 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library also awarded an “honorable mention” to \u003cem>Goodnight Moon\u003c/em> by Margaret Wise Brown. That book might have been a contender for the all-time top spot, but NYPL children’s librarian Anne Carroll Moore so disliked the 1947 book that the library didn’t carry it until 1972. That late entry kept the book off the top 10 list—for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the top 10:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Snowy Day\u003c/em> by Ezra Jack Keats: 485,583 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Cat in the Hat\u003c/em> by Dr. Seuss: 469,650 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>1984\u003c/em> by George Orwell: 441,770 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Where the Wild Things Are\u003c/em> by Maurice Sendak: 436,016 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em> by Harper Lee: 422,912 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Charlotte’s Web\u003c/em> by E.B. White: 337,948 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em> by Ray Bradbury: 316,404 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>How to Win Friends and Influence People\u003c/em> by Dale Carnegie: 284,524 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone\u003c/em> by J.K. Rowling: 231,022 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Very Hungry Caterpillar\u003c/em> by Eric Carle: 189,550 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13873156 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children line up at the Chatham Square Library on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1911.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children line up at the Chatham Square Library on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1911. \u003ccite>(The New York Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only one book on the list is at all recent: the first Harry Potter novel, which was published in the U.S. in 1998. The library says the \u003cem>Sorcerer’s Stone \u003c/em>and Rowling’s subsequent tales of wizarding are always popular but that they experience regular spikes in circulation when new editions or movies come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From year to year, books on current events prove popular. The library’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/december-18-2019/new-york-public-library-shares-top-checkouts-2019-becoming\">top checkout of 2019\u003c/a> was \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em>, Michelle Obama’s autobiography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The all-time list includes many titles that people read, treasure and want to share with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The books on this list have transcended generations and, much like the Library itself, are as relevant today as they were when they first arrived,” said NYPL President Anthony W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shares qualities with many of the other most-borrowed titles: The beautifully illustrated book has been around a long time, it’s well-known and well-loved, and it’s available in numerous languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is such a relatable story, and pure magic for kids and adults alike,” Andrew Medlar, director of the library’s BookOps selection team, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/january-13-2020/classic-childrens-story-snowy-day-tops-new-york-public-librarys\">in a statement\u003c/a>. “It’s on people’s radar screens, they remember when they first heard it, and they want to share that experience with their kids. And the artwork is just gorgeous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s books make up a large part of the list. That’s not too surprising—short books can be read faster and are returned more quickly. Even the more adult books on the list, such \u003cem>1984\u003c/em> and \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, are rather slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one nonfiction book appears on the list: \u003cem>How To Win Friends and Influence People\u003c/em> by Dale Carnegie. The self-help juggernaut was published in 1936.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library also awarded an “honorable mention” to \u003cem>Goodnight Moon\u003c/em> by Margaret Wise Brown. That book might have been a contender for the all-time top spot, but NYPL children’s librarian Anne Carroll Moore so disliked the 1947 book that the library didn’t carry it until 1972. That late entry kept the book off the top 10 list—for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the top 10:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Snowy Day\u003c/em> by Ezra Jack Keats: 485,583 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Cat in the Hat\u003c/em> by Dr. Seuss: 469,650 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>1984\u003c/em> by George Orwell: 441,770 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Where the Wild Things Are\u003c/em> by Maurice Sendak: 436,016 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/em> by Harper Lee: 422,912 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Charlotte’s Web\u003c/em> by E.B. White: 337,948 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em> by Ray Bradbury: 316,404 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>How to Win Friends and Influence People\u003c/em> by Dale Carnegie: 284,524 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone\u003c/em> by J.K. Rowling: 231,022 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>The Very Hungry Caterpillar\u003c/em> by Eric Carle: 189,550 checkouts\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13873156 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children line up at the Chatham Square Library on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1911.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/1145742u-a29a6b477be13cb8884d94851d7e0c96ecc40d90.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children line up at the Chatham Square Library on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1911. \u003ccite>(The New York Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only one book on the list is at all recent: the first Harry Potter novel, which was published in the U.S. in 1998. The library says the \u003cem>Sorcerer’s Stone \u003c/em>and Rowling’s subsequent tales of wizarding are always popular but that they experience regular spikes in circulation when new editions or movies come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From year to year, books on current events prove popular. The library’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/december-18-2019/new-york-public-library-shares-top-checkouts-2019-becoming\">top checkout of 2019\u003c/a> was \u003cem>Becoming\u003c/em>, Michelle Obama’s autobiography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The all-time list includes many titles that people read, treasure and want to share with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The books on this list have transcended generations and, much like the Library itself, are as relevant today as they were when they first arrived,” said NYPL President Anthony W. Marx. “This list tells us something about New Yorkers over the last 125 years—what moves them, what excites them, what stands the test of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+New+York+Public+Library+Has+Calculated+Its+Most+Checked-Out+Books+Of+All+Time&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new movie version of \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> hits theaters this month and, unlike the children’s adaptations we’ve grown accustomed to, it is very much a horror film. \u003cem>Gretel & Hansel\u003c/em> is the logical evolution for a story that’s terrified children and adults alike since the 14th century. What’s more, it continues a long tradition of shifting the story’s narrative in order to reflect, and better suit, the era in which it reemerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZblQLhKcZQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps unsurprisingly, this tale about siblings being abandoned by their parents in the forest, enticed to the home of a witch and then almost eaten by her, the roots of \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> spring from shocking real-life horror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story’s origins have been traced back to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Famine\u003c/a> that started in 1315 and killed millions across Europe. At the time, conditions were so dire and starvation was so widespread that parents were known to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/hansel-and-gretel-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandon their own children\u003c/a>, either to fend for themselves or simply to die. There were also rumors of cannibalism during the period as people struggled to survive. As such, when \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> first circulated, there was nothing particularly fantastical about a story of “terribly hungry” disowned children nearly being eaten by a frightening stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tale proved so compelling that it was passed from generation to generation via oral traditions until the Brothers Grimm finally \u003ca href=\"https://study.com/academy/lesson/hansel-gretel-setting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immortalized it\u003c/a> in print in 1812. It took less than 50 years, however, for their \u003ca href=\"https://nationalpost.com/life/parenting/something-wicked-this-way-comes-how-real-life-stepmothers-are-battling-centuries-of-fiction-to-overcome-stereotypes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original version\u003c/a> to undergo some significant updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">final Grimm edition\u003c/a> emerged in 1857, the idea of parents leaving their own children alone in the woods had simply become too taboo to retain—even in a tale that featured attempted cannibalism. As such, all subsequent editions transformed Hansel and Gretel’s coldly practical mother into an overtly abusive stepmother. And their father—already unsure of abandoning his kids in the original story—was presented in a more sympathetic light, thanks to added lines of dialogue, including, early on: “I do feel sorry for the poor children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the decades as we’ve continued to tell the story, small but key details like these have changed to reflect shifting cultural sensibilities. In the composer Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMEI4aoUfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hänsel und Gretel\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, for example, the children’s mother was still present and still cold (threatening the kids for not doing their chores and such) but she only sent them into the forest to pick strawberries. That’s quite the leap away from escorting them there to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5Rq_QSk-Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion rendition of \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em>\u003c/a> appeared in TV in 1951, the children were going into the forest entirely of their own accord, in order to forage for food to help their stressed-out single father. In this \u003cem>Hansel and Gretel\u003c/em>, the kids were simply performing a selfless deed for their family—and their bravery was rewarded with “gold, silver and precious jewels.” The lesson in this version was about familial bonds, not betrayal—a reflection of the family values of the early ’50s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5Rq_QSk-Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, when Faerie Tale Theatre created \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FEZsyR0Eg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a version for television\u003c/a>, the moral became even further simplified, with Shelley Duvall introducing the production as a story “about a little boy and girl who learn not to take candy from strangers”—a parable of the prevailing “stranger danger” message for youngsters in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new millennium brought several surefire signals of filmmakers’ struggle to make \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> make sense for modern audiences. A 2002 movie version starring Dakota Fanning and Taylor Momsen rounded down the story’s sharpest edges by introducing heavy-handed comedic elements and goofy new characters, including Howie Mandel as “The Sandman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPP_Pz5YKMI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s nothing compared to what happened in 2013. That year, the world ended up with both \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1428538/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a Jeremy Renner-starring vehicle in which the children are all grown up and hunting the source of their nightmares) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2081194/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hansel & Gretel Get Baked\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a stoner movie best forgotten entirely).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While movie adaptations were struggling, in 2014 Neil Gaiman and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti successfully transformed \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> into a current-day story about refugees surviving war. Their book collaboration succeeded in bringing a grim reality back to the story that had become almost entirely absent in the preceding decades. “In the early Grimms’ versions, there was famine,” \u003ca href=\"http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/09/30/bestselling-author-neil-gaiman-recounts-visiting-syrian-refugees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaiman told CNN\u003c/a> at the time. “Talking to some of the Syrian refugees who ran out of food, telling me about getting permission from their imam to eat cats and dogs because all the other animals had gone—about eating grass, drinking swamp water—I thought, ‘This is \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we are undoubtedly far better off in 2020 than in the Great Famine of 1315 that originally birthed this story, it makes sense now for a new \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> to be rooted in horror. With America in the midst of thousands of child separations at the border, a light-hearted narrative in which parents voluntarily abandon their children would be insensitive at best. And while the nation is far from famine, hunger is a real and present danger for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">millions of American children\u003c/a> right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as the dark 700-year-old story of \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> keeps being reinvented, it will always reflect the times. The fact that it’s returned to its medieval roots this year? That’s a development that should probably give us all pause.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the composer Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMEI4aoUfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hänsel und Gretel\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, for example, the children’s mother was still present and still cold (threatening the kids for not doing their chores and such) but she only sent them into the forest to pick strawberries. That’s quite the leap away from escorting them there to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5Rq_QSk-Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion rendition of \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em>\u003c/a> appeared in TV in 1951, the children were going into the forest entirely of their own accord, in order to forage for food to help their stressed-out single father. In this \u003cem>Hansel and Gretel\u003c/em>, the kids were simply performing a selfless deed for their family—and their bravery was rewarded with “gold, silver and precious jewels.” The lesson in this version was about familial bonds, not betrayal—a reflection of the family values of the early ’50s.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GT5Rq_QSk-Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GT5Rq_QSk-Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1983, when Faerie Tale Theatre created \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FEZsyR0Eg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a version for television\u003c/a>, the moral became even further simplified, with Shelley Duvall introducing the production as a story “about a little boy and girl who learn not to take candy from strangers”—a parable of the prevailing “stranger danger” message for youngsters in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new millennium brought several surefire signals of filmmakers’ struggle to make \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> make sense for modern audiences. A 2002 movie version starring Dakota Fanning and Taylor Momsen rounded down the story’s sharpest edges by introducing heavy-handed comedic elements and goofy new characters, including Howie Mandel as “The Sandman.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TPP_Pz5YKMI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TPP_Pz5YKMI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But that’s nothing compared to what happened in 2013. That year, the world ended up with both \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1428538/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a Jeremy Renner-starring vehicle in which the children are all grown up and hunting the source of their nightmares) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2081194/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hansel & Gretel Get Baked\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a stoner movie best forgotten entirely).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While movie adaptations were struggling, in 2014 Neil Gaiman and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti successfully transformed \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> into a current-day story about refugees surviving war. Their book collaboration succeeded in bringing a grim reality back to the story that had become almost entirely absent in the preceding decades. “In the early Grimms’ versions, there was famine,” \u003ca href=\"http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/09/30/bestselling-author-neil-gaiman-recounts-visiting-syrian-refugees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaiman told CNN\u003c/a> at the time. “Talking to some of the Syrian refugees who ran out of food, telling me about getting permission from their imam to eat cats and dogs because all the other animals had gone—about eating grass, drinking swamp water—I thought, ‘This is \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we are undoubtedly far better off in 2020 than in the Great Famine of 1315 that originally birthed this story, it makes sense now for a new \u003cem>Hansel & Gretel\u003c/em> to be rooted in horror. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This interview contains a homophobic slur.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Peggy Orenstein knows that talking to your son about sex isn’t easy: “I know for a lot of parents, you would rather poke yourself in the eye with a fork than speak directly to your son about sex—and probably he would rather poke himself in the eye with a fork as well,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we don’t have “the luxury” to continue avoiding this conversation, she says. “If we don’t talk to our kids, the media is going to educate them for us, and we are not going to love the result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orenstein spent 25 years chronicling the lives of adolescent and teen girls and never really expected to focus on boys. But then came the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/570698249/-metoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MeToo \u003c/a>movement, and Orenstein, whose previous books include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/472213851/girls-sex-navigating-the-complicated-new-landscape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girls & Sex\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/137916708/cinderella-ate-my-daughter-dispatches-from-the-front-lines-of-the-new-girlie-gir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinderella Ate My Daughter\u003c/a>, decided it was time to engage young men in conversations about gender and intimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her new book, \u003cem>Boys & Sex,\u003c/em> is based on extensive interviews with more than 100 college and college-bound boys and young men of diverse backgrounds between the ages of 16 and 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was doing the girl book, the kind of core issue with girls was that they were being cut off from their bodies and not understanding their bodies’ response and their needs and their limits and their desires,” she says. “With boys, it felt like they were being cut off from their hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 289px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13872604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-07-at-3.47.08-PM.png\" alt=\"'Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity,' by Peggy Orenstein\" width=\"289\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-07-at-3.47.08-PM.png 289w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-07-at-3.47.08-PM-160x244.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity,’ by Peggy Orenstein\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orenstein notes that society doesn’t often give boys “permission or space” to discuss their interior lives. Maybe that’s why the young men she spoke to were so eager to open up: “When they had the chance [to talk], when somebody really gave it to them and wasn’t going to be judgmental about what they had to say, they went for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orenstein says the boys she spoke with felt constrained by traditional notions of masculinity. One interviewee confided that he preferred to partner with girls for school projects because, “It was OK to say you didn’t know what you were doing with a girl, and you couldn’t do that with a guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That idea of emotional vulnerability was so profound for boys,” Orenstein says. “Vulnerability is basically essential to human relationships, so when you cut boys off from the ability to be vulnerable, you’re doing them a huge disservice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how boys described an “ideal” man to her \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They saw girls as equals and deserving of their place on the playing field and in class and in leadership, and they had female friends. So that had really changed. But I would ask them all the time to just give me a kind of lightning round of the ideal guy. And when we would do that, it was like they were channeling 1955. It was still all about stoicism, sexual conquest, dominance, aggression—or this weird combination of being both aggressive and chill—athleticism, wealth. It was really narrow. And they would talk a lot, particularly about … suppressing feelings. And a lot of guys would say to me that they had figured out … how to build a wall inside to block off any feelings except, maybe, happiness and anger. They would talk about training themselves not to feel or training themselves not to cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On boys’ use of homophobic epithets, such as f**\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys used that word, that epithet for a gay person, a lot with each other. But what they would say to me—this is straight boys talking—is that they would never say that to a gay person. That they had gay friends, that they weren’t homophobic, but they use that word all the time. And it had become basically a slur on masculinity, not so much a statement of sexual orientation. But I think that word—that slur for gay—is what kind of draws the lines of the “man” box for boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it is basically the fear of being called [that] that shuts down any objection to stepping up and standing out. So it polices boys, basically. And I also was really interested in “#nohomo.” \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/cpascoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C.J. Pascoe\u003c/a>, who is a sociologist in Oregon, had done a survey of the way boys use that hashtag on Twitter. And it wasn’t just a homophobic slur. It was also a protective shield that allowed them to express just really basic human ideas about affection and joy. So they would say, like, “I miss you, man. #nohomo,” or even something as innocuous as, “I like chocolate ice cream. #nohomo.” It was just a way that allowed them to be fully human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how internet porn has affected boys \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they’re getting in porn is a really distorted vision of what human sexuality is. They see image after image of sex as something men do to women, of female pleasure as a performance for male satisfaction, of distorted bodies—of a whole lot of things that frankly wouldn’t feel very good to most people. And without discussion with parents and without discussion by schools, that’s becoming the de facto sex educator for a lot of kids. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that research shows is that [porn] actually reduces their satisfaction in their partnered relationships. So they feel less satisfied with their partners’ bodies, with their own bodies, with their own performance. So right there, something to talk to boys about is, “It’s not going to be doing any favors once you get into the actual bedroom.” But it affects their ideas about what women should look like. It affects their ideas about how women should behave. It affects their ideas of what acts should be performed and the way that those acts should be performed. One of the boys [told] me that his girlfriend was a curvy African American girl, and he said that having spent hours and hours and hours looking at and reacting to what he called “all those skinny white women,” that he had a hard time being aroused by her body. And that was really disturbing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the ambiguity of the term “hookup” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hookup” is an intentionally ambiguous term. It can mean anything. It might mean kissing. It might mean oral sex. It might mean intercourse. And, in truth, when you look into the research, about a third of college hookups fall into each of those categories. But that ambiguity allows young people to vastly overestimate what their peers are doing. And then \u003cem>that\u003c/em> can actually trigger a kind of anxiety and fear of missing out, or expectation of what you are supposed to be doing, that can make you engage in sex that maybe you don’t want to have, or push harder than you might otherwise push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On learning that gay boys are better at communicating consent than straight boys \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was something that was a big surprise and a big takeaway for me—that gay boys were so much more willing and able and capable [of negotiating] the terms of their sexual experiences with their partners. And that’s partly because they sort of have to, because what’s going to happen is not necessarily obvious. But they were always so befuddled by the resistance among straight guys to doing that—if we’re talking about it, it means we’re going to have sex. And that’s great. Why would you think that was a bad thing? …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Dan Savage, who is a columnist who writes about sex talk, says is, there are four magic words that gay guys use in a sexual encounter: “What are you into?” And the beauty of that phrase is that it’s a truly open-ended question. It’s not a yes or a no to a set of possibilities that is predetermined or decided by the other person, but it’s a conversation. And that’s ultimately what one is aiming for in this whole discussion of consent—to make sex a conversation that people can have not just for the legality of it, but so that it will be a more mutually gratifying experience for everybody involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Briger and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. 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