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Funeral
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Ready to Die
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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200 Pounds Beauty
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Lady Bird
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Television · Strong bridge
AEW Dynamite debut episode
professional wrestling television special
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Prep
2000s
Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the pr...
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200 Pounds Beauty
2000s
A plus-size phone-sex singer gets full-body surgery and debuts as a pop star. A guilty-pleasure K-drama that became a box-office phenomenon.
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Homegoing
2010s
Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British...
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Music 1990s
Ready to Die
Biggie's debut. The greatest storytelling in hip-hop history from Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Film 2010s
Lady Bird
Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California during the...
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Books 1900s
I Am a Cat
A cat observes its master and his friends. Satirical debut of Japan's greatest modern novelist.
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Music 1970s
Unknown Pleasures
Post-punk's defining debut. Isolation, dread, and the pulse of Manchester after dark.
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Music 2000s
Funeral
Grief transformed into communal catharsis. Indie rock's most anthemic debut.