Here at聽翱耻迟蝉颈诲别听HQ, we're not rolling up our hammocks or quitting the play-all-day summer mindset until we start losing feeling in our extremities. However, since Labor Day weekend marks some technical last gasp of summer, it seemed like the right time to turn in our “What We Did This Summer” reports.聽
You'll notice that (gasp)聽our editors don't only consume media about trail running, climbing, surfing, and general adventure. Maybe it's because we were busy doing all of those things, and we have聽辞迟丑别谤听interests during our free time, you know.聽But maybe it's also because we're suckers for the shows that everyone else talks about at the water cooler and that聽involve dimension-jumping, slimy monsters. Either way, we're coming at you with the best of our summer entertainment… and a few things that we definitely meant to get to. Maybe in the fall.聽
Audio
“Discovered these guys, , and have listened to their album way too much. I love their sound, and they're the best new riding music I've had in a long time.”
鈥擝ryan Rogala, video editor
“There was so much good music this summer! Whitney's definitely wins best summer vibes. It was on repeat during my California-to-New Mexico road trip. Radiolab's podcast about was awesome, too.”
鈥擫uke Whelan, assistant editor
“from聽Radiolab. The Supreme Court has never been so sexy.”
鈥擭ick Kelley, online photo editor
“I know I'm biased, but聽the聽国产吃瓜黑料 Podcast聽is great. I'm聽a sucker for anything that explains the science of things for the laymen. It allows me to go out in the world sounding smarter than I really am.”
鈥擶es Judd, online fitness editor
Printed Word
“James Baldwin's . It's raw, totally riveting, and the characters are all messy, real humans.”
鈥擜xie Navas, gear senior editor
“The best thing I read was Bike Batman [“The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves“], because Chris Solomon's writing and reporting rocked.”
鈥擲cott Rosenfield, online editor
“The Atavist's book has some of the best nonfiction longform I've ever read. I don't know how Evan Ratliff and co. do it, but they attract the best writers with the most insane stories. Love and Ruin is just them flexing, and I gotta say, it's pretty nice to look at.”
鈥擶es Judd
“Malcolm Gladwell's new podcast, , is blowing my mind. I actually cried listening to one on the drive this morning (''). I've always had problems with him because I think he chooses these theories and uses them to explain the entire world based on one theory, while ignoring every other theory out there….but maybe I've mellowed in my old age and come around to his way of thinking. It's great storytelling, fantastic reporting, and Gladwell is fun to listen to on the radio. The ''聽episode is also great.”
鈥擩akob Schiller, online gear editor
Moving Pictures
“! [Ed. note: Spoiler approaching!]聽They should have paid me for how much I was advertising that to friends and family. R.I.P. Barb.”聽
鈥擶es Judd
“I was so late to the game watching聽, which came out in the winter.聽Honestly, it's because I'm bored by the idea of most running movies (shame on me), and because聽I've already read everything 聽about the 'world's most insane race.' But the characters in this documentary聽are so compelling off the page, and the last 20 minutes so emotional, that it ended up being the most surprisingly good thing I watched all summer.”
鈥擡rin Berger, online culture editor
Public Shaming: Stuff We Never Got Around To
“. I started watching it on an international flight, then figured that was disrespectful to I帽谩rritu's masterpiece. Fall movie party, anyone?” [Ed. note: Some of us who will remain unnamed聽诲颈诲听watch the entire聽thing during a flight, and while we'd like to think the bear scenes were just as stressful on a tiny screen… yeah, we'll take you up on that proper screening offer.]
鈥擜xie Navas
“I have a few piles of magazines on my coffee table (GQ, Wired, Trail Runner,聽every issue of Vanity Fair since Amy聽Schumer聽was聽on聽the cover…)聽that, if stacked on top of each other, would probably come up to my hip. Training for my first ultra took over my usual Saturday and Sunday morning reading time, and created a hole that I still haven't been able to dig myself out of.”
鈥擶es Judd
“The last three 国产吃瓜黑料 Interview podcasts. Don't tell Chris Keyes.” [Ed note: Whoops.]
鈥擝ryan Rogala鈥
“I have聽聽by Siddhartha Mukherjee sitting on my bookshelf, which I will read…someday. (It's 600 pages!)”
鈥擫uke Whelan
“I borrowed John McPhee's geology magnum opus,聽, from the library in June. I now receive weekly late notices and I'm only five pages in, but I swear I have every intention of learning about tectonic plates. Eventually.”
鈥擡rin Berger
“I've been trying to read Dave Egger's new聽. I had every intention of reading it on the plane to Chile, but on the way down I was too distracted by movies, and on the way up I was so tired and hungover I just slept the whole way.” [Ed. note: It's okay, Jakob, you can start with this much shorter聽excerpt聽we helpfully published.]
鈥擩akob Schiller
“'' [by John聽Hersey, 1946]聽in聽The New Yorker.”
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