I optimistically hope that the next links round-up will include the Millions‘s great book preview for the second half of 2022, but since that wonderful post has not yet arrived, you will have to make do with Lit Hub’s second-half of 2022 book preview instead. You may also enjoy NPR’s Books We Love tool, formerly the Book Concierge, which covers the first half of 2022 and always blows my TBR list to hell. Akwaeke Emezi talks to Elle about their latest book title, ghosts, and getting plot ideas from their dreams. Thailand is a premiere destination for gender-conforming surgery —…
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Are there infinite ways to say THIS HAS BEEN A WEEK? Because that’s what I need. In Louisiana alone, the cops killed a Black man named Trayford Pellerin (link); a white guy killed an unarmed Black man in a Trader Joe’s parking lot (link); and a massive (though not as massive as we feared) hurricane struck the southwest coast of the state (link). That is one single state that those things happened in. And yet at the same time things keep happening in many states. Please, please do whatever you can do to ensure that Trump does not get reelected…
Leave a CommentTired: Making fun of Franzen Wired: Making fun of Bret Easton Ellis Just kidding! Those things are both incredible! So I’m kicking off this links round-up with Isaac Chotiner’s very magical interview with Bret Easton Ellis, as well as a review of the “old man yells at cloud” book Ellis has, apparently, written. Be blessed. “It felt hidden, like I said a magic word and there was Prague.” An interview with Helen Oyeyemi. The rise of publicly thirsty women. Some thoughts on cultural appropriation, rules, and self-censorship, from Jeannette Ng. An extremely normal and fine profile of Carmen Maria Machado.…
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