Look, y’all know me, and you know that when The Millions releases its book preview, I am ruined for all else for a while. This year, Lithub has also begun releasing a book preview too, which, I mean, there can never be too many large-size book previews, right? The first half of the year book preview is up at The Millions! And here’s the Lithub one, which I haven’t perused yet so I can’t speak to how solid or unsolid it is or isn’t. This is a very good review of Marriage Story. Women can write spy thrillers too! Goddammit.…
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We did it, friends! We made it through another week! I hope we all have wonderful, soothing, unstressful plans for this weekend, with all our favorite foods and drinks. We deserve it like crazy. Garbage in, garbage out: A really straightforward and helpful look at the ways algorithms become biased. Jia Tolentino is one of my all-time faves, and this is a piece about The Westing Game, so I am about as happy as it is possible for a person to be. Remember that thing where Sherrilyn Kenyon said her husband was poisoning her? Lila Shapiro has been reporting it…
Leave a CommentI don’t have any links about Kara Walker. But y’all should be excited for me because I’m seeing a Kara Walker thing tomorrow and Kara Walker will be there. So hooray. My only sadness is that the way the exhibition is, there won’t be a gift shop. But anyway! On to the links! The cost of reporting while female. I always love reading the Lithub discussions of how book designers come up with their book covers. This is a particularly good one. If you want to read romance, but you’re not sure where to start, Kelly Faircloth has your recs.…
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