Tired: Making fun of Franzen
Wired: Making fun of Bret Easton Ellis
Just kidding! Those things are both incredible! So I’m kicking off this links round-up with Isaac Chotiner’s very magical interview with Bret Easton Ellis, as well as a review of the “old man yells at cloud” book Ellis has, apparently, written. Be blessed.
“It felt hidden, like I said a magic word and there was Prague.” An interview with Helen Oyeyemi.
The rise of publicly thirsty women.
Some thoughts on cultural appropriation, rules, and self-censorship, from Jeannette Ng.
An extremely normal and fine profile of Carmen Maria Machado. (I advise reading it in its entirety.)
How bad is EL James’s new book? SO BAD.
The medical establishment uses men as a baseline for almost everything — which has led to massive health inequities for women.
Katy Waldman found her own experiences in a book (not in a good way).
Celebrating Easter Sunday among the black congregations in Louisiana whose churches were burned by an arsonist this year: an exercise in generosity and forgiveness.
Nathan Robinson attended the Zizek/Peterson “debate” so we wouldn’t have to.
Wesley Morris grieves for the demise of the romantic comedy (and so do I).
Have an incredible weekend, friends! Mine is going to contain brambles and crawfish, so I will be the happiest camper the world has ever known. (Also a little bit of phone-banking but I’m trying not to think too much about that.)