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Smart Pop Classics: Happiness Under Glass from Coffee at Luke’s

Written by Heather ButterfieldApril 9, 2021

In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week, in her essay from Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest, Jill Winters compares Stars Hollow to a snow globe, a picture perfect place full of eternally content characters . . . and Lorelai Gilmore. RORY: It’s… Read more Smart Pop Classics: Happiness Under Glass from Coffee at Luke’s

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Smart Pop Classics: What Is The Matrix?

Written by Heather ButterfieldMarch 26, 2021

In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week, media and cultural critic Read Mercer Schuchardt presents the definitive answer to the question “What is the Matrix?” in their piece from our very first Smart Pop book, Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The… Read more Smart Pop Classics: What Is The Matrix?

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