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Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained.

Today’s special guest is the Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson, the author of the new Atlantic Editions title On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity; The Atlantic’s Work in Progress ; and the 2018 best seller .Derek is also the founder and host of the news podcast . Derek is devoted to the early-2000s musical stylings of Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, and My Chemical Romance; wonders whether his sports-media consumption is something akin to gossip; and repeatedly finds himself “in slack-jawed awe” of a certain novel by the late Philip Roth.

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