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.

ZORA Magazine has released a new canon of all Black women writers, and it’s pretty great. Let’s update all the high school syllabi.

Meghan Markle is my full and complete hero, and that’s what I’d just like to say about her and this whole royal family situation. And here’s Afua Hirsch on the decision and how easy it is for Black Britons to understand.

Harvey Weinstein believes he can shut up the people talking about the allegations against him, and avoid all consequences. The hell of it is that he might be right.

“My food is my story, and it’s complicated and imperfect, but it is just as worthy, and I am the right person to tell it.” Jenny Dorsey spent years feeling ashamed of her family’s Chinese food. Now she’s making a place for it at the table.

The RWA mess is somehow still happening??? But Chuck Tingle is here to help us with this new RWA website. It is very, very blessed.

Also if you don’t know what “the RWA mess” means, here’s a breakdown for you!

What are the Oscar-nominated white men of film angry about this year? Vulture has a helpful guide. They also have this very angry roundtable about what the Academy considers worth rewarding.

Here’s what happened with the attack helicopter story.

What have you been reading around the internet, friends? And what do you have planned for the weekend? Not that any weekend is a bad weekend to appreciate the radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr., but this is a particularly great weekend to do that. Do some service! Combat racism!

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“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.

Can indie bookstores be forces for good if they’re not paying their employees a living wage? Likewise, can we really claim John Beilein is sooooo greeeeeeat given that he chose to work in college basketball? (This latter one takes no prisoners.)

Here are your SF recs for the month of May!

What it’s like to travel when you have a “bad” passport.

I love Olivia Waite’s romance columns for the Seattle Review of Books, and this one about placeholder heroines is particularly excellent.

American society isn’t so much protecting shitty privileged teens as it is protecting a shitty privileged status quo.

Sady Doyle on Game of Thrones and why that last episode made no goddamn sense.

Which characters are considered disposable by showrunners and by fandoms? There’s, uh, a pretty clear pattern.

We are in a period of Hollywood handshake hyperinflation. Where is the media on this important issue?

That thing where some of the most venerated and canonized journalists just made a bunch of shit up.

I have recently been thinking that it’s maybe never? okay? to use living people’s real life tragedies for entertainment (in the context of the HBO show Chernobyl), and this article confirmed that thought in the context of the true crime boom.

And that’s all, folks! I hope you enjoy your weekends!

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“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 from Aja Romano on the worst of Rick and Morty fandom and the recent dust-ups over Szechuan sauce at McDonald’s.

On Shirley Jackson and the fetishization of lady murderers. (This article includes spoilers for We Have Always Lived in the Castle.)

Did I link this last time? Lani Sarem’s interview with Vulture? It’s gold. I said “oh SHIT” a couple of times while reading it. Spoilers, Lani Sarem is an enormous liar.

Here’s some really good internet discourse content for your delectation and delight.

Harvey Weinstein in case you missed it (you didn’t miss it) has been accused of a massive amount of sexual harassment going back decades. He has so far apologized for doing it, called his accusers liars, and threatened to sue the New York Times. Rebecca Traister responds. Jia Tolentino also.

I am now in love with D’Arcy Carden, who plays Janet on The Good Place. Read this interview only ONLY if you are caught up on The Good Place.

When should you talk to your children about fascism?

I don’t watch Younger, but I do work in publishing, so this fact-check of Younger’s depiction of publishing charmed me no end.

Have a great weekend!

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