The coronavirus situation sure does continue to continue, doesn’t it? I hope everyone who is reading this and all your families are doing okay on health and okay on money, and that you have plenty of nice things to keep your head above water in the midst of all these terrible things.
Suzanne Walker considers the disability narrative (such as it is) in the otherwise really fun show The Witcher.
No one knows anything, and everyone’s mad. Anne Helen Peterson continuing to bring truly excellent reporting on the human elements of the pandemic.
Ancient monks struggled with isolation, too.
Naomi Kritzer wrote the pandemic story five years ago, so now it’s a weird time for her.
Woody Allen’s memoir is in many ways exactly what you would expect. In other ways, Mark Harris is shocked at how incurious a worldview it espouses. I, a stone cold bitch who never liked Annie Hall in the first place, am not (but this is still an interesting read).
Please watch Run on HBO so you can talk to me about how great Merrit Wever is. She is so great. She is so so great. But read the link first, because the show does some morality stuff that not everyone would enjoy. I am kind of surprised I’m able to enjoy it! Such is the power of Merritt Wever.
Here’s why you’re having super vivid dreams lately, according to National Geographic.
Electric Literature talks to the anonymous folks behind the new Publishers Weakly Twitter account.
Last but not least, here are 30 queer YA books coming out this season, so you can place orders for them at Bookshop.org or with your library!
That’s not very many links, I know, but I admit I have been a scootch too dispirited to go on my accustomed vigorous link hunts. I reiterate my hope that you, my internet friends, are safe and well, and with that I will whisk myself off into the weekend where I hope to enjoy both cheese fries and books.