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Wishing And Hoping Life Pick of the day

Bonnie Johnson | The Rumpus | 16th August 2016
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Encounters with the fortune-tellers and magicians of Los Angeles, including an evening at The Castle, clubhouse of the Academy of Magical Arts: “The audience went silent when Gaughan introduced a live re-enactment of Robert-Houdin’s moon-and-Pierrot piece, in which an English magician named Mystina floated beside a talking, three-dimensional crescent. The woman danced and somersaulted above the floor, and passed through a ring Gaughan held before he slipped into the wings” (3,900 words)

The House Where You Live Forever

Amelia Schonbek | Longreads | 16th August 2016
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Profile of architect Madeline Gins, whose deliberately awkward buildings were designed to “destabilise” inhabitants physically and mentally. In a Gins building you had to stay alert to avoid falling over, which Gins thought was the key to a longer life. “Procedural architecture, as they called their technique, was a way of creating buildings that had far more in common with poetry, in which the writer experiments with language to achieve certain effects, than with most traditional architectural practice” (7,065 words)

Natural Resources

J.M. Martin | Oxford American | 15th August 2016
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The inspiring, bewildering, up-and-down life story of Ed Townsend, who wrote songs — including Let’s Get It On — for Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, and Etta James. He produced hits for Brook Benton, the Shirelles and Johnny Nash. Al Bell gave him “carte blanche” at Stax. After losing his studio to fire in New Jersey he built another at Mound Bayou in Mississipi. His “restless effusiveness” and “crooning, dapper majesty” won over everybody he met; until, in the end, drink won over him (3,800 words)

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