I don’t have any links about Kara Walker. But y’all should be excited for me because I’m seeing a Kara Walker thing tomorrow and Kara Walker will be there. So hooray. My only sadness is that the way the exhibition is, there won’t be a gift shop.
But anyway! On to the links!
The cost of reporting while female.
I always love reading the Lithub discussions of how book designers come up with their book covers. This is a particularly good one.
If you want to read romance, but you’re not sure where to start, Kelly Faircloth has your recs. I can cosign just about every one of these that I’ve read, so trust and believe that this is a good list for a romance newbie.
Oh yeah and then Kelly Faircloth talked to a bunch of romance novelists about how to make consent sexy. What a great idea to ask this question of people who spend their professional lives doing that very thing.
“Wakanda is a fictional place, but Wakanda is also an idea.” Sayantani DasGupta (middle grade author!) on spaces created by and for people of color.
(There is probably a ton of amazing writing on Black Panther, y’all, but since I haven’t seen it yet, I haven’t read any of it. Please drop your favorite Black Panther takes in the comments for after I do see it.)
Who wants a list of anticipated 2018 debut novels? ME OBVIOUSLY.
Tanita Davis writes about Daniel Handler and the way we respond to racist vs sexual harassment.
On Bari Weiss and the concept of the perpetual foreigner.
The Oxfam sex scandal arises from the charity industry’s white savior mentality, says Afua Hirsch of the Guardian.
Have a wonderful weekend, one and all!