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!

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Patricia Highsmith’s diaries are going to be published in 2021. I still haven’t read The Price of Salt, and I am mad at myself about it. Maybe that will be one of my small goals for 2020.

The kids are frankly fucking inspiring.

I was super intrigued by this post about the sexist ways the Austens and Brontes are often portrayed in biographies and fiction.

“Most of us writing now were not educated by that expanded canon.” Alexander Chee on writing stories about people who are different than you.

Dahlia Lithwick hasn’t been back to the Supreme Court since Kavanaugh was confirmed. From the reporter who brought us the Chaos Muppet / Order Muppet theory as part of her Supreme Court reporting, this is devastating. It’s devastating anyway. Fuck the patriarchy.

Listen. Listen. Listen. I have no opinion about whether Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or died by suicide because I am not qualified to assess the evidence. But I do want to be able to depend on people who are qualified to assess the evidence, which, um.

Dialogue from the husbands in every haunted house movie.

Carmen Maria Machado wrote her memoir of surviving a queer abusive relationship because she could not find such books to support her when she was in the midst of the experience. Here’s also a review of her book that I thought was really good.

New English Canaan was a 1637 book that harshly critiqued the Puritan colonizers in America. Sounds fascinating, no?

The demise of Deadspin has been miserable to witness. Anna Merlan reports: Blogging is hard.

“Romance novels are social novels.” Adriana Herrera (an awesome writer!) on the possibilities that diverse romance novels offer.

Attention please, these are all the holiday movies. Brace for incoming.

Malka Older talks utopia, dystopia, and the necessity of imagining better futures for ourselves.

Feminist bookstores are having a renaissance in the South.

That’s all for today! Have a wonderful weekend, please topple the patriarchy responsibly, and I’ll see you back here on Monday, when we will all recommence weeping and tearing our hair over the future (slash, doom?) of the world.

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