How to cull your books: The Awl guide. Let me tell you my method, team. Take all the books. Line them up on the floor, right to left, by how much you love them. Then draw a line somewhere in the middle of that long line of books and cull everything to the left of your line. Boom. Done.

More on fan entitlement (and a bit of side-eye for Steven Moffat, which I am never not here for) from The Mary Sue. I’m really digging Maddie Myers’s work on The Mary Sue these days, y’all! Go follow her on Twitter, I like where her head’s at.

Speaking of things I’m never not here for, Jonathan Franzen gave an interview to Slate and it’s everything I could have asked. He has never been in love with a black woman and he suspects poors don’t like him because he enunciates and wears glasses. What a great world.

Mm, Elizabeth Minkel gets real on why she doesn’t believe that The Cursed Child is fanfic.

Holy crap, y’all, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes went on a road trip one time. They had funsies. Let’s turn that into a movie.

Aaron Sorkin’s online screenwriting class is everything you want it to be. Ben Lindbergh reports for The Ringer.

Matt Zoller Seitz on the decline of the serialized TV drama.

Why Twitter attracts trolls.

Diversity in book publishing. The last two years have seen a marked increase in books by POC authors, but the staff of the publishing industry remains overwhelmingly white.

Being stuck without a book is the worst. I believe we can all agree on that. When was the last time you needed a book and didn’t have one?

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Get pumped: NPR’s Code Switch, your source for excellent conversations about race and American culture, will soon be a podcast! The first episode drops May 31st.

Sharing your favorite stories with your kids: An impossibly adorable story starring Luke Skylocker.

A seriously great black feminist roundtable in response to bell hooks’s response to Beyonce’s new music video; and a reminder why it’s awesome to live now and have all these amazing, smart, thoughtful voices available for us to listen to.

Sob! The Toast is closing! Where will I get my art history jokes now?

Tina Fey is kind of being a jerk about racism, but it’s not like you’re surprised. Zeba Blay on being a fan of feminist TV while black.

How writers will steal your life for their books.

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The psychological toll of reporting on black deaths in America. Do newsrooms have social workers? I feel like they should. Or some sort of institutionalized debriefing situation.

What defines the Gothic (with examples from some of my literally most favorite ever in this world authors).

I maybe liked The Man from UNCLE an eensy smidge more than Wesley Morris did, but I can’t argue with his review of it. Except for the criticisms of Henry Cavill. I really liked Henry Cavill in this movie. Also, yes, he and Armie Hammer should make out.

Let’s let mental health professionals run jails. Agree?

An update on what’s happening with the Sad Puppies, by a woman who seems to share my exact feelings about Orson Scott Card.

And for those of you who were horrified that Russians don’t have any cheddar cheese, an update on the cheese situation in Russia.

The fall is coming (please God let it be true), and Vulture has a recommendations generator for those of you not sure what you want to read, watch, and listen to in the upcoming months.

Emma Donoghue writes about the experience of being on a movie set while your book is turned into a film.

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It’s about ethics in book reviews.

On Twitter the other day someone tweeted that “Strange Fruit” was by two white dudes, and I thought, “On the Nina Simone tribute album, you mean?” Nope. She meant there is a new comic book called Strange Fruit featuring an enormously strong mute alien who looks like a black man, and the two authors of it are both white dudes. So, worse than my first thought.

A story about two sets of identical Columbian twins who got insanely switched at birth and everything is insane.

This modern sequel to Five Children and It looks amazing, and I am angry that it appears not to have been published in the US yet.

The Rebecca sequel we ALL deserve.

Is African science fiction predicting the future? Relatedly, hooray for African sci-fi!

Code Switch’s Gene Demby writes an astonishingly compassionate and wonderful article about the Confederate flag and “heritage-not-hate” arguments.

A coda: As I schedule this post, yet another black person, a woman called Sandra Bland, has died under suspicious circumstances in police custody, following what should have been a routine traffic stop. I’m sure we’ll be learning more about this in the coming days, but anyway, I didn’t want to let it pass unmentioned.

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