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JK Rowling Does What She Wants: A links round-up

Emily Asher Perrin (writer of the superb Harry Potter Reread series on Tor.com) has some thoughts on JK Rowling’s constant expanding of the Harry Potter universe, and most of them are also my thoughts, so go see what you think. The controversial Professor Bhaer: An investigation in five parts at the Paris Review. Bros writing about southern food (& why it should be more ladies), over at a website I newly love, The Bitter Southerner. This piece by Kiese Laymon about Bill Cosby and minimum standards of human decency is so, so good. The stories you have the right to…

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“That racist thing where I touch your hair”: A links round-up

I could not be more excited about the new Lifetime show UnREAL. “Now I’m going to do that racist thing where I touch your hair.” Saeed Jones on being black in the book world. A moderate voice on trigger warnings for the classics. And another piece on trigger warnings generally, which makes the point that it’s not about whether to teach this or that troubling text, but how. Brit Bennett of the Paris Review on Addy Walker and black dolls in American culture. No joke, y’all, I reread the Addy books recently and they are fucking brutal. Gender differences in…

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