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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It never seems to be the right time to talk about racism among white teachers. (link)

Young people with long COVID are struggling to get support, necessary treatments, and even the belief of their nearest and dearest. (link)

Emerald Faith recommends some classics of Black queer literature. (link)

Two journalists did a podcast about a hoax letter that led to anti-Muslim policies. It explores how journalism can go terribly wrong when it’s overly deferential to those in power. The response of British journalism has been… not good. (link)

“There’s no easy block option in real life.” Larisha Paul on Megan Thee Stallion and the misogynoir underpinning the online and offline harm done to her. (link)

Have we been thinking about burnout all wrong? Does it make more sense to consider it as a trauma response? (link)

Why have we given up on the pandemic? Ed Yong, our trustiest pandemic journalist, has some answers. (link)

American journalism claimed to be facing a racial reckoning after the events of Summer 2020. What ever came of that? Hanaa’ Tameez investigates. (link)

In praise of the humble video essay. (link)

Any time Rachel Cordasco has thoughts on SFF in translation, they’re worth reading. (link)

The music of Sesame Street could never have been what it was without one man: Joe Raposo. (link)

Some bros entering the online knitting space feel they have been treated unfairly by the knitting community. (link)

What happens when novelists take to Substack? (link) And what makes writers leave? (link)

Ryan from The O.C. just really really does not like cryptocurrency. I can’t overstate how charming this article is. (link)

What do linguists think of LOL? (link)

The #MeToo movement has failed in Sweden, with more women being prosecuted for talking about their abuse than men prosecuted for doing the abuse. (link)

“We’re still supposed to somehow root for the few good apples while ignoring the bad.” David Dennis Jr. examines the new Batman’s portrayal of police and policing. (link)

Tech whistleblowers are begging for us to hear them. (link)

The creator of the Netflix TV show The Babysitters Club discusses its unexpected cancellation. (link)

“Run you might get away. But you probably won’t.” Wesley Morris explores Jane Campion’s unprovoked snottiness toward the Williams sisters. (link)

Here’s how the costume designers for The Gilded Age, 1883, and Vienna Blood design the outfits their actors wear. (link)

Turning Red is a glorious, funny, emotional celebration of boy band fandom. I LOVED IT and I hope y’all did/will too. (link)

Orchestras need HR departments. (link)

I cannot fucking wait to read Dead Collections. It’s about a trans vampire archivist. And now I learn it’s also about fandom? I mean!! (link)

Drunk parents explain Paw Patrol to sober childless people. (link)

That’s it for the links! Paw Patrol is terrible! Be well this weekend!

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