THE MILLIONS BOOK PREVIEW for the second half of 2018 has dropped, bringing joy unto us all in these dark times. I was cranky when I read this and therefore only wrote down, like, six books on my TBR list. SUCCESS.

“The idea that everyone involved is playing a game of three-dimensional chess at all times can be grounds to reinterpret or dismiss even the most contradictory signals as needed, to make sure the theory keeps working.” Zan Romanoff on celebrity relationship conspiracy theories.

Niceness and small towns in romance novels.

How to write about Africa.

The Female Relationship Resume isn’t an actual metric we need to care about.

Sarah McCarry is actually an excellent readalike to Jordy Rosenberg’s new novel Confessions of a Fox, and I love her review. And here’s Jordy Rosenberg himself on writing trans stories and the multiplicity of authorship.

Here is a big list of cult books. Yay. (Books about cults, btw, not books with a cult following.)

Matt Zoller Seitz on Nanette and the future of stand-up comedy.

Here’s some of the reasons I didn’t get on Amazon this past week. (I used Goodreads a bit because I forgot it was an Amazon product. Grrrrrr.)

There’s no such thing as a feminist company. Companies are not your friends. They will never be your friends.

This is an experimental DIY library in Brooklyn!

I LOVE AKASHIC BOOKS. Here is a day in the life of an indie publisher.

If you’re readathoning, follow me on Twitter so we can be readathon buddies! And I wish a wonderfully pleasant weekend to readathoners and non-readathoners alike!

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