Once again we have made it through another week, and this time the weary week has done us a solid by leading us into October. The best of months! Welcome, October, we have been wishing for you. If you measure this week by hours, it has been the normal length, but if you measure it (and this is the trick) by presidential crimes openly committed, it has been ten thousand eons. I did get to play Untitled Goose Game this week, though. So at least there’s that. Anyway, here are some links for you!
Call off the dogs; the best tweet on Twitter has occurred and I am here to share it with you.
Fellas is it gay to tilt your rival’s chin up with the point of your sword
— Bram Stoker's Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) September 22, 2019
Here’s a pitch for the mall as the perfect place to get some reading done. I’m not sure I’m convinced but I am intrigued.
“Romance is ready to face its history. We deserve people who are interested in telling that story with us.” Jennifer Prokop on shitty romance thinkpieces.
I’ve seen a lot of convos about the finances of writing lately, and literary agent Kate McKean breaks down some of the mysteries about how publishing, advances, and agents work.
Is “cancel culture” a real thing? Spoilers, it is not.
Trudeau wore blackface as part of a Halloween costume; and it plays into a long history of Orientalism and racism.
Prisons disproportionately ban books dealing with race and civil rights issues from being sent to inmates, and the available appeal process is an inadequate counterbalance. PEN America reports their findings.
People of color have been consistently sidelined in the fight for environmental justice.
“We made a game that we thought was funny, about a goose.” An interview with the creators of Untitled Goose Game. I played the game with my toddler godson this week, as mentioned, and a of all, the game rules, but secondly, he is too much of an Order Muppet for this game! He kept trying to do kind, helpful things. THIS IS A GAME OF CHAOS, TODDLER GODSON.
“I started making notes like ‘drink cold cum in hell’ and ‘i’m glad that god killed you.’” Patricia Lockwood reviews John Updike. It is exactly what you might expect, i.e., perfection.
Abrams is starting a new imprint for queer graphic novels! Curated by Mariko Tamaki! Who wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, the cutest sweetest queer graphic novel I maybe have ever read!
I hope that if your season is autumn, you are currently experiencing autumn. YOU DESERVE AUTUMN. WE ALL DO. Autumn, and a bad goose, and the correct punishment for presidential crimes. That’s the world I want for us, friends. I hope that world finds you.