Anyway, here’s a quick run-down on the Stanford Prison Experiment and its many problems. I’m so excited this is in the news. Be mad about it. Tell your friends.

This article has a bad headline, but it’s spot-on about the way our literary canon perpetually asks everyone, women included, to care deeply about the sexual frustration of men who hate us.

Kekla Magoon on heroism and community. PS y’all should read The Rock and the River and How It Went Down because they’re extraordinary.

This deep-dive into Sherlock conspiracy fandom is absolutely weird and fascinating.

“Come on in; the water is sickeningly warm.” Rebecca Traister on Bill Clinton’s indignation about being asked to discuss his behavior towards Monica Lewinsky in the context of #MeToo.

Coming of age stories for girls in movies are overwhelmingly white (and wealthy).

Ellen Oh has some thoughts on writing while white and how to receive criticism.

Who gets to talk? Rabih Alameddine on purveyors of comforting myths.

The trouble with researching a historical novel is knowing when to stop, and what details to pare away.

Fighting fake reviews — in literature, in the restaurant world, on YouTube — has never been trickier.

I finally took a deep dive into that sex cult that one of the actresses from Smallville was in, and gosh, what an experience. Cults are WILD. Content note for abuse.

Here’s what you need to know about the world’s scariest scary film, Hereditary — whether you want to see it or not! See also: How to participate in horror movies when you are scared of horror, an article that is written by a totally separate human than me but it might as well be an excerpt from my autobiography.

Women use true crime as emotional catharsis and danger practice. (Not me though. I don’t fuck with true crime. No indeed.)

Have a wonderful weekend, internet friends!

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Ever wondered how the sausage of film and TV casting gets made? The Guardian has a superb article about Nina Gold, the queen of casting.

This is a pretty extraordinary excerpt of oral history done by Zora Neale Hurston, an interview with a survivor of a slave ship.

George Yancy writes about what it’s like to be black in academia.

Here’s a story about trying to report sexual harassment as a call center worker.

Alexis Okeowo writes about her home state of Alabama and the heritage it loves to celebrate and ignore. (cn: lynching)

Three women who are defying the whiteness of romance novels.

This new app sounds racist even by the standard of neighborhood apps.

How the US erases native people from the landscapes of National Parks.

An ode to Brooklyn Nine Nine, a show about which I no longer have to feel heartbroken because NBC saved the day.

“Why is a woman in power questioned on sight?” On Raymond Chandler and being a rare bookseller.

“This won’t sell” is the widest moat in the castle’s defenses. Rabih Alameddine writes about comforting myths and the literature sanctioned by empire (which is most of it).

I always thought it would be super cool to be a sound guy, and Vulture is here to, um, well not exactly back me up, but to talk about how sound guys make sex scenes and stuff for the movies.

Infinity War spoilers in this link, but yeah, Gamora’s plotline was the thing that convinced me I didn’t want to see Infinity War.

Anyone got fun weekend plans? Awesome links I missed?

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