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  • Spike Lee is looking for the next Jesus Shuttlesworth.

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.

• Nate Silver on the why “diverse” almost never means “unsegregated”? —Aimee Levitt

• That Hold Still, the new memoir by photographer Sally Mann, “dials open the aperture on your own senses,” according to Dwight Garner’s NYT review? —Steve Bogira