Sunday Reading

 Nathan Deuel

• "There hasn't been an HIV transmission on set since 2004," Duke said.
• "The pigs have the most fun of all, because most of their day is spent eating and sleeping.”
• "Animal was not aggressive -- moves slowly as if aged," officials said.
• "To see young boys running for their lives and then a moment later they’re dead is something I will never forget.”
• "They believe that one can be gay and Muslim; that the sexes can pray shoulder-to-shoulder.”
• "They do not have an expectation of privacy…if you want privacy, build a roof.”
• "Most of them were able to get together in groups, and that kind of held off some of the sharks a bit.”
• "Miller entered [North Korea} April 10 with a tourist visa but tore it up at the airport.”
• “Obviously homelessness is hazardous to your health.”
• "Grizzly populations were most dense along the California coast..But those areas are now dense with Californians.”
• "The seraphic people of Calabasas will get busy in their panic rooms.”

Jacqui Shine:

• PAIRING: This piece from This Land on white Americans' fantasies of Native heritage with this truly terrific radio story about the specious origins of The Education of Little Tree
• PAIRING: "A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses," Camille T. Dungy's meditation on the histories that converge in places like Ghana's Cape Coast Castle  with an excerpt from Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother
• PAIRING: Lili Loofboruow on the Bammer with this New York Times piece about Maria Bamford's "weird, scary, ingenious" brain.
• SOLO CUTS: What extraordinary rendition is like when you're twelve.
• What it was like to be on Supermarket Sweep.

Bint Battuta: