MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Arts & Culture Stories from NPR

• Netflix employees are staging a walkout today as a fired organizer speaks out
  The Netflix employee resource group supporting trans and non-binary people is demanding better representation, both onscreen and in management.
• Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'
  Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is Unprotected.
• Kanye West is now officially 'Ye'
  The change has been in the works since at least since 2018, when he released a studio album by that name. He has cited its biblical significance as "you," noting "So I'm you, I'm us, it's us."
• Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'
  The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic.
• Lucy Barton returns — and reconnects with an old love — in 'Oh William!'
  Lucy Barton — the redoubtable memoirist we've met in two previous novels — returns in Elizabeth Strout's Oh William!, reconnecting with her estranged first husband after her second husband dies.
• This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know
  Chinese American poet Jane Wong's new collection, How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, grapples with fear and anger at her family's silence about what they suffered in China's Great Leap Forward.
• Boston Modern Orchestra Project is honored for championing overlooked American music
  The Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Carmen Mola was a popular Spanish novelist. Three male writers made her up
  Antonio Mercero, Agustín Martínez and Jorge Díaz not only created a series of highly successful novels in Mola's name, but also invented the author herself.
• 'Genius' actor Cynthia Erivo opens up her voice on 'Ch. 1 Vs. 1'
  The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in Genius: Aretha. Now Erivo has a debut album. "I sing often with a bit of a smile," she says.
• 'Succession' season 3 premiere recap: The Roys are racing to hell. Who's leading?
  The third season of Succession kicks off with the entire Roy family, plus some of their associates, on the road to ruin. We rank the characters in order of the speed at which they are hurtling along.