For nearly six years now, I’ve written a post every weekday at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 1500 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2017:
- David Sedaris Breaks Down His Writing Process: Keep a Diary, Carry a Notebook, Read Out Loud, Abandon Hope
- Famed Art Critic Robert Hughes Hosts the Premiere of 20/20, Where Tabloid TV News Began (1978)
- Hear The Cinnamon Bear, the Classic Holiday Radio Series That Has Aired Between Thanksgiving and Christmas for 80 Years
- How Orson Welles’ F for Fake Teaches Us How to Make the Perfect Video Essay
- Hunter S. Thompson Chillingly Predicts the Future, Telling Studs Terkel About the Coming Revenge of the Economically & Technologically “Obsolete” (1967)
- Listen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967)
- Petite Planète: Discover Chris Marker’s Influential 1950s Travel Photobook Series
- Stream Loads of “City Pop,” the Electronic-Disco-Funk Music That Provided the Soundtrack for Japan During the Roaring 1980s
- Watch Randy Newman’s Tour of Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard, and You’ll Love L.A. Too
- When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.