new career Booting Megyn Kelly immediately improved NBC's ratings Jason Weisberger

music Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald "Khalis" Bell, RIP David Pescovitz

Funny Gary Larson quietly brings back 'The Far Side' after 25 years away Andrea James

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

1960s Toni Basil to teach classes on '60s go-go dancing Rusty Blazenhoff

writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

movies Legendary comedian Carl Reiner, RIP David Pescovitz

art Milton Glaser, legendary graphic designer, RIP David Pescovitz

photographs The chemist who made big bucks hoaxing ghost photos David Pescovitz

police brutality North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——" Rob Beschizza

mistakes The greatest moment in the history of conservative comedy Rob Beschizza

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books Number-crunching the New York Times' bestseller list is not a good look for diversity Thom Dunn

Comics MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 Janelle Hessig