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- Corinne Rey, a former Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who still lives protected by security guards, has written a new graphic novel based on the terrorist attack at her former employer.
- The Wall Street Journal has more details on how Dana Canedy, a Black woman and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who leads Simon & Schuster's namesake imprint, landed the Mike Pence book deal that then got shot down by a vocal "small minority" of enraged staffers.
- The International Olympic Committee's vice president said today that he doesn't care if Tokyo is under a COVID-19 state of emergency, these summer games are happening.
- The state of Alabama has overturned a decades-long ban on yoga in public schools, but the sound "om," the saying "namaste," and "any aspect of Eastern philosophy and religious training" are still prohibited.
- Pitchfork has the behind-the-scenes story of the grunge-light album Mariah Carey released under an alias back in 1995.
- One of the more peculiar details from this Harper's story about Clubhouse For the Boys, an all-male TikTok hype house, is that apparently 23% of Americans between the ages of 13 and 38 identify as social media influencers.
- Graydon Carter has been banned from Balthazar and other NYC restaurants owned by Keith McNally after Carter's party of 12 bailed on a reservation.
- A source close to Alex Rodriguez says he's "in a world of pain" over being dumped by J. Lo, but he at least has the launch of his new men's concealer product to look forward to.
- "This is the story of the old Space Jam website."
- Everyone is 30 and listening to Olivia Rodrigo.
- And finally, oh, you losers take the easy way?:
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