1) This week’s new releases include ALLBLACK, Amy Winehouse, New Order, Iron & Wine, Tony Joe White, Paupiere, Sufjan Stevens, India Jordan, Alex Chilton, Kasai Allstars, and CZARFACE & MFDOOM, as well as about two dozen tracks we missed the first time around recently to start off the playlist. [Spotify]
Books / Movies
2) Did Frank Abagnale, subject of the unbelievable memoir and Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can, really make it all up? One author seems to think so: “What really happened was that, dressed as a TWA (Trans World Airlines) pilot, which he only did for a few weeks, [Abagnale] befriended a flight attendant called Paula Parks. He followed her all over the Eastern Seaboard, identified her work schedule through deceptive means, and essentially stalked the woman.” [WHYY/NPR]
History
3) “At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government used a radical idea: printing paper money.” [The Conversation]
Misc.
4) “Bats appear to be born with something akin to a superpower: a preternaturally accurate sense of time, new research suggests. …bats have an innate sense for the speed of sound at birth, which cannot be altered by learned experience.” [Science Alert]
These newsletters will be short for a while, we suspect, while Brian continues to work on his book. (Bastard.) Keep sending us links, though!