MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• Shades Of Gray Turn Sumptuous In 'Chain Letter'
  In Chain Letter, cartoonist Farel Dalrymple returns to The City, the mysterious metropolis at the heart of his early 2000s series Pop Gun War. It's a weird, complicated and charming place.
• Updating Frankenstein For The Age of Black Lives Matter
  The classic tale of the Monster resurrected from the dead gets a new treatment in Victor LaValle's new limited-series comic.
• Before Her Teacher's Murder, This 'Keepers' Witness Was Already Living A Nightmare
  In the docuseries The Keepers, Jean Wehner shares her story of being abused by her high school chaplain. She says the teacher she confided in may have been killed for knowing too much.
• 'Epicurious' Editor Goes Inside The Home To Find Greatest Chefs
  NPR's Audie Cornish talks with David Tamarkin, editor of the website Epicurious, about his recent project compiling a list of "The 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time."
• 'The Big Sick' Is A Wonderful Movie And An Imperfect Milestone
  Comedian Kumail Nanjiani steps into the leading role in a semi-autobiographical love story. It's a quietly groundbreaking crowd-pleaser, though some characters aren't as fully dimensional as others.
• In The Event Of Attack, Here's How The Government Plans 'To Save Itself'
  In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a catastrophe. One Cold War-era plan put the post office in charge of cataloging the dead.
• Checking In On 'Better Call Saul' (And 'Breaking Bad') At The 3-Season Mark
  Both shows track the moral decay of their main characters, so we compare Jimmy McGill's arc, as of Sunday's Better Call Saul season finale, to that of Walter White after three seasons of Breaking Bad.
• 'The Sarah Book' Is An Unsparing Primal Scream Of A Book
  Scott McClanahan's semi-autobiographical novel is packed with loss, pain and existential anguish, but his narrator — also named Scott — refuses to give up, no matter how often he's knocked down.
• Eddie Izzard: Coming Out Gave Me The Confidence For Everything Else
  Fair warning: There are no actual jazz chickens in Eddie Izzard's new Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens. But it does provide insight into what makes the acclaimed comedian tick.
• Sherman Alexie Says He's Been 'Indian Du Jour' For A 'Very Long Day'
  Alexie is excited for a new generation of Native American writers to come on the scene, "so I don't have to answer all the questions," he says. His new memoir is You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.