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I Have 10 Pieces of Willpower Wisdom to Share With You
Charlotte Grysolle
I note that a new edition of Seneca’s treatise has recently been published by Princeton University Press under the title How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management. Indeed, Princeton has a whole series called “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
There were more than thirty performers, many of whom, like Russell, qualified as Americana, an umbrella term for country music outside the mainstream. In the Americana universe, Isbell and Shires were big stars—but not on Nashville’s Music Row, the corporate engine behind the music on country radio. It was a divide wide enough that, when Isbell’s biggest solo hit, the intimate post-sobriety love song “[Cover Me Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-s3vuXopS4),” was covered by the country star Morgan Wallen, many of Wallen’s fans assumed that he’d written it.
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
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