Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Sally Jenkins, a staff writer who has reported on the man who broke physics, athletes who keep competing into their 40s, and how to fix the mess of college sports. Sally was pleasantly surprised by the lighthearted tone of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. She also recommends listening to Joni Mitchell's 2000 version of 'Both Sides Now,' visiting the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and watching I'm Not There for its mosaic-like quality. The television show I'm most enjoying right now: There is a Hollywood story in David Niven's autobiography Bring on the Empty Horses, in which the screenwriter Charles MacArthur asks Charlie Chaplin how to make the comic pratfall scene of a person slipping on a banana peel new again. Chaplin suggests that MacArthur start with a lady walking down the street and cut to a shot of the banana...
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