Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: The Star Wars Holiday Special, reading lists, managing movie theaters and the invention of video game cartridges.
The Star Wars holiday special is particularly reviled, but how did it come together? Mental Floss has an oral history of the program. [Mental Floss]
What does one discover when someone decides to expand their reading horizons? [Max Gladstone]
The Force Awakens might have been one of the biggest openings of all time. How did that look from the people who are responsible for showing it to moviegoers? [Fusion]
Anyone who’s ever played video games owes a debt to Wallace Kirschner and Lawrence Haskel, who invented the video game cartridge. [Fast Company]
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