These are some links! Have an amazing weekend!
Soleil Ho weighs in on Beef, Asian American representation, and the really awful things David Choe said he did but now says he didn’t do.
“It dies with us.” Linda Condega on keeping the memories, but not the nostalgia.
Wesley Lowery still wants the journalism industry to be better.
Here’s what to expect from TV shows if the writers’ strike continues. Stand with the WGA! Support labor! The studios are greedy jerks who don’t care about making good art!
The research is in (again): Knowing the end doesn’t stop you from enjoying media.
The always-great Dahlia Lithwick assures you that Harlan Crow does not want to pay YOUR kid’s tuition, and it’s not a coincidence that Clarence Thomas’s kid is the kid whose tuition he did pay.
Alex Haley seems to have… just made up a good chunk of Martin Luther King’s famous criticism of Malcolm X.
Prince Harry’s ghostwriter talks about the process.
An oral history of the scene in One Tree Hill where the dog eats the heart that Dan was supposed to get transplanted into his body.
I’m pretty stunned by the news of Heather Armstrong’s death. Lyz Lenz wrote a lovely obituary of her.
A lot of author feuds and gossips are depressing. Here are some good ones.
Kate Wagner explains the ongoing ?appeal? of McMansions.
How can we find the books that will make us feel a really specific feeling?
So-called “medical moms” share intimate details of their disabled children’s lives on TikTok. Do we feel great about turning sick kids into capital-c content?
Behind the scenes at the Westminster Dog Show!
“When popular culture thinks of Blackness, rarely does somebody think of a tiny little town or a mountainside and the Black person who’s there.” On the mythology of small towns and Blackness.
Here’s the crazy bullshit going on with cryptocurrency right now.
“You know enough to be mopey and think of expired salmon.” What it’s like to have a traumatic brain injury.
Happy Friday!