Look, y’all know me, and you know that when The Millions releases its book preview, I am ruined for all else for a while. This year, Lithub has also begun releasing a book preview too, which, I mean, there can never be too many large-size book previews, right? The first half of the year book preview is up at The Millions! And here’s the Lithub one, which I haven’t perused yet so I can’t speak to how solid or unsolid it is or isn’t. This is a very good review of Marriage Story. Women can write spy thrillers too! Goddammit.…
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Friends, it has been another Week, and we have gotten through it. Buy yourself some ice cream this weekend; you deserve it. (Or whatever dessert treat is special for you.) And then eat it while you’re enjoying this superb collection of links. “Just as more women earned degrees, the jobs that require those degrees started paying disproportionately more to people with round-the-clock availability.” Oh shit. The problem with Black Widow. Also, how the straight agenda ruined Avengers: Endgame. Spoilers at both of these links. Why are we so addicted to conspiracy theories? Here’s what happened to Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com.…
Leave a CommentHappy Friday the 13th, friends! Hopefully it brings you good luck, not bad. I’m having a strange, emotional week, but it includes a lot of wonderful friends whom I get to vigorously embrace, so that bit’s good. Have some links! “White men’s rage is burning down the world”: Sady Doyle on the profile of the mass shooter. Also, an older article but an evergreen reminder that a lot of these people do it for the glory. Use the shooter’s name sparingly, if at all, when discussing crimes like these. At a different point along the toxic masculinity spectrum, some thoughts…
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