Joyous, joyous day! The NPR Book Concierge for 2019 has landed! As usual, my TBR list has exponentiated as a result. It’s Friday and I have other links, but realistically, the one we care about is the Book Concierge. Find books in good health, friends! Here’s what it’s like to be an audiobook narrator. I wouldn’t exactly call Gaudy Night an “overlooked” novel but that doesn’t mean I will turn up my nose at this appreciation of Gaudy Night and its heroine, my favorite character in all of literature, Harriet Vane. So here’s the thing about My Favorite Murder. (Disclosure,…
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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 CommentOkay, none of these links have anything to do with my godchild. I am just high on love because the least cuddly child on earth not only gave me an enormous hug without prompting, but the hug also lasted ~75 seconds. It was the best. I love that kid so much. ANYWAY ON TO THE LINKS. Some of these are old because I have been getting lax with my links round-ups, but they’re still good, I think! The internet is not a shared space of equality. It’s as segregated as the real world. US vs UK book covers of 2018.…
Leave a CommentOBViously I would not let y’all languish without Franzen content when I could furnish you with Franzen content. He has proposed ten rules for writers. They are so magnificently stupid, especially number five. My cup runneth over. Can ballet exist without hurting women? Couples develop their own private languages and verbal tics! (So do families.) (So do friends.) (But this article is about couples.) Friends featured lesbians and mocked them; does one of those things cancel out the other? An interview with amazing Saga artist slash genius Fiona Staples. Treat aromantic and asexual adults like adults! Grace Lavery points out…
1 CommentWELP I have gotten behind on my links, which means a bunch of these are old. On the other hand, the passage of time has lost all meaning and the news cycle is now 3.2 seconds, so the important thing is probably just that I included some snails in dollhouses for y’all’s Friday. Have a wonderful weekend! These are just some motherfucking snails inside some motherfucking dollhouses. Why casting Nagini as an Asian woman is so offensive. Ron Charles considers whether we still need Banned Books Week, and reaches no real conclusion. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a writer I adore, talks about…
1 CommentOops, the holidays happened and I forgot to post links round-ups. I know you have all been suffering terribly without them. My hope is that you improved the shining hour by catching up on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Good Place, my two favorite shows on TV. But if you just moped around a-waiting, here’s the goods at last. Black women have largely been left out of the conversation about harassment (quelle surprise). Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience of racist belittlement from Charlie Rose. On the state of Kentucky and the borders of the South. Gillian Flynn writes about how…
9 CommentsOkay, I don’t actually have a link about Kenny, my favorite contestant on this season of The Bachelorette, but I will tell you that there is some racist shit going down on this season, and it is not fun to watch, it’s upsetting. ABC is a tire fire. What else is new. Roxane Gay’s series “World of Wakanda” was canceled — as usual, because Marvel calculates sales in the stupidest way possible and doesn’t give its new series and new authors the support they need and enough time to find their audience. Swapna Krishna discusses this nonsense. I still haven’t…
18 CommentsHappy Friday! There are no more good weeks in our barren world; there are only weeks where the world falls apart. Eat cheese and chocolate accordingly, and plan to call your senators a whole lot next week. The always-marvelous Angelica Jade Bastien unpacks the debate about black American and British actors. This isn’t new, but I hadn’t seen it before: An interactive self-care guide that is legit pretty great. If you’ve read The Thief and The Queen of Attolia, may I direct your attention to this Tor.com appreciation of Eugenides? It contains significant spoilers for two eminently spoilable books, so…
6 CommentsHappy Friday, everyone! This week’s been a good one for me, not least because absolutely everybody seems to really hate the new Netflix Iron Fist. The internet tried to warn you, Netflix! “We try not to get too hung up on the split infinitive”: Here’s some charming stories about copyediting and style guides. Gavia Baker-Whitelaw at the Daily Dot adored Logan and made me feel pretty sure that I will too.1 Likewise Emily Asher-Perrin at Tor, who does the excellent thing of saying a superhero movie is very good without trashing all other superhero movies. Emily Yoshida wrote this thing…
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