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Kesha and Kara Walker: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Brian Hiatt | “She sounds great, looks cool. But who even is this person? Clearly, the old Ke$ha—she of the digitally enhanced vocals and the half-rapping and the whiskey-assisted dental hygiene and the party at a rich dude's house—can't come to the phone right now. At age 30, as she recovers from an eating disorder that nearly killed her and an ugly, still-unresolved legal battle

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