Hello, it is Friday, and I am pleased to report that I have (mostly) emerged from the weeds of a time so busy that I thought I was going to have to rip my hair out. I did not rip my hair out! Hurrah! As the prospect of a slightly quieter time loomed before me, I very cleverly took on a large new project. Ha ha I don’t know why I’m like this. Please send help, I can’t disentangle my feelings of self-worth from productivity. ANYWAY HERE ARE SOME LINKS, and I’m sorry we all have to live in late-stage capitalism like this.
Patricia Highsmith’s diaries are going to be published in 2021. I still haven’t read The Price of Salt, and I am mad at myself about it. Maybe that will be one of my small goals for 2020.
The kids are frankly fucking inspiring.
I was super intrigued by this post about the sexist ways the Austens and Brontes are often portrayed in biographies and fiction.
“Most of us writing now were not educated by that expanded canon.” Alexander Chee on writing stories about people who are different than you.
Dahlia Lithwick hasn’t been back to the Supreme Court since Kavanaugh was confirmed. From the reporter who brought us the Chaos Muppet / Order Muppet theory as part of her Supreme Court reporting, this is devastating. It’s devastating anyway. Fuck the patriarchy.
Listen. Listen. Listen. I have no opinion about whether Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or died by suicide because I am not qualified to assess the evidence. But I do want to be able to depend on people who are qualified to assess the evidence, which, um.
Dialogue from the husbands in every haunted house movie.
Carmen Maria Machado wrote her memoir of surviving a queer abusive relationship because she could not find such books to support her when she was in the midst of the experience. Here’s also a review of her book that I thought was really good.
New English Canaan was a 1637 book that harshly critiqued the Puritan colonizers in America. Sounds fascinating, no?
The demise of Deadspin has been miserable to witness. Anna Merlan reports: Blogging is hard.
“Romance novels are social novels.” Adriana Herrera (an awesome writer!) on the possibilities that diverse romance novels offer.
Attention please, these are all the holiday movies. Brace for incoming.
Malka Older talks utopia, dystopia, and the necessity of imagining better futures for ourselves.
Feminist bookstores are having a renaissance in the South.
That’s all for today! Have a wonderful weekend, please topple the patriarchy responsibly, and I’ll see you back here on Monday, when we will all recommence weeping and tearing our hair over the future (slash, doom?) of the world.