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THE FEED: JUL 22ND

What we're reading:

Are libraries the next pop-culture wave?
(NPR): We've had cupcakes, now libraries might be top of the pops

The origins of canned laughter
(Paris Review): How the Laff Box came to a small screen near you

Harold Pinter, a cantankerous character
(Telegraph): A 'Pinteresque' letter is uncovered inside a book sent for auction

Today's quote:

"The only morally defensible film about war, it would seem, is one that condemns it; everything else is propaganda."

~ Sebastian Junger, "Why the Right and Left Are Wrong About My Movie" (Daily Beast)

(Via The Economist) 

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com