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"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart. Hawke is also starring in the film Black Phone 2.

Author Percival Everett has made a career out of exploring the nature of absurdity. We talk to Everett in front of an audience of students at McDaniel High School in Portland.