MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• 'PEN15' Is Back, And Girlhood Is Still Painfully Awkward
  The newest episodes of Hulu's smart coming-of-age comedy expand upon the exciting and traumatic themes of puberty.
• Susanna Clarke Divines Magic In Long-Awaited Novel 'Piranesi'
  Clarke fans waited 16 years for this follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Here, Clarke limns a magic that is part of the very fabric of the universe.
• Toni Tipton-Martin To Lead 'Cook's Country' Magazine
  Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Toni Tipton-Martin, the new editor-in-chief of Cook's Country, a publication of America's Test Kitchen.
• Poirot's The Star, But His Sidekick Shines In 'Kingfisher Hill'
  The latest installment in the Hercule Poirot franchise — now being written by Sophie Hannah — is a masterful, multilayered puzzle in which Poirot's assistant Inspector Catchpool plays a key role.
• Not My Job: We Quiz 'Unbreakable' Star Tituss Burgess On Fragile Stuff
  Burgess may have starred as Titus Andromedon on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but how much does he know about breakable things? We'll find out.
• 'Never Look Back' Updates An Ancient Story Of Love And Loss
  Lilliam Rivera's new young adult novel reimagines Orpheus and Eurydice as Afro-Latinx teens in New York, bringing something new to the old tale by giving Eurydice her own baggage and her own story.
• Here Are The 50 Books Nominated for 2020 National Book Awards
  There are writers on the longlist in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. Two debut novels are in the running for the fiction prize.
• A Very Brady Trivia Sequel
  A few weeks ago, comedian John Early answered trivia questions about the Brady Bunch. So when cartoonist Keith Knight and his sister Tracy requested a Brady Bunch game, the research was already done.
• Cartoons On The Radio
  Cartoonist Keith Knight and his sister Tracy have to guess what comic strip a line of dialogue is from.
• Bug Me Do
  Jonathan Coulton performs Beatles songs re-written to be about bugs, and Busy Philipps and Shantira Jackson have to figure out what he's singing about.