The Joys of Carole Lombard, Zadie Smith, and High-School Movies

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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 Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She has written for The Atlantic about one family’s search for meaning in the aftermath of 9/11, the singular heartbreak of adult friendships, and the aunt she barely knew.

Jennifer was stunned by Daniel Radcliffe in the revival of , knows most of the theme song to by heart, and is a sucker for a movie or TV show about high school—“especially if it involves nerds.”