“Participatory listenership (i.e., interrupting)” has killed me stone dead. Have some sociolinguistic analysis about why some people think New Yorkers are rude. (link)

ASTROLOGY BOOK CLUB. I really enjoy astrology book club. (link)

NPR has worked hard to bring together this list of the 100 best books for young readers. Yay! (link)

“Living in the now is a constant negotiation of how to put the things that I value—humane and safe working conditions, diversity in storytelling, anti-racism and justice—into active practice in an imperfect world.” On the revival of West Side Story. (link)

Lauren Markham appreciates the magic of the postal service even more in these quarantimes than she did before. (link) (This is true of me, Jenny, also — I am sending out one lovely note per day to friends!)

Slate dot com has done the important journalism of charting all the murmurs murmured by anyone in the Twilight saga. (link)

“Black people will defend your right to Blackness… That’s how these deceptions are born.” Evette Dionne on Jessica Krug. (link)

The country can change. It’s done it before. (link)

“Instead of solving social problems, the U.S. uses techno-fixes to bypass them, plastering the wounds instead of removing the source of injury—and that’s if people even accept the solution on offer.” On the American failure to address the pandemic. (link)

Eula Biss is so consistently good and smart. (link)

Here’s what’s going on with Storygraph, the burgeoning successor to Goodreads. (link)

This article on the Nancy Meyers kitchen is a few months old but it is very, very good. (link)

That’s all, folks! Have an absolutely stupendous weekend! I will be shut up in a dark room whispering “participatory listenership (i.e., interrupting)” over and over again until I have come to terms with it. Which will never happen. So that is just what I will be doing with my life from this point onward. Be blessed.

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Disney princesses reimagined as cement mixers.

Here’s what’s going on at Tumblr.

Period-tracking apps benefit men, and marketers, and medical companies–not women.

What it’s like hearing Anne Carson lecture.

This journalist went to a Scholastic book fair and didn’t find it as magical as she remembered — but somehow this article just made me feel MORE fond and MORE magical about Scholastic book fairs. So, win?

“The work of black public intellectuals is shaped by white gatekeepers….There is power lost when the oppressor serves as interlocutor.” Mychal Denzel Smith on what it means to be a black public intellectual.

Jezebel talks to a biographer of Queen Anne to find out the truth behind the new movie The Favourite.

Here’s all the money the American taxpayer is spending on Confederate monuments and iconography.

An excellent profile of NK Jemisin, who is an excellent writer. Yay!

What happens when a fic goes mainstream?

Another excellent piece about the missing mothers of SFF, this time by Aliette de Bodard, a writer I like more and more as time goes on.

Author Ijeoma Oluo unpacks a few of the ways systemic racism functions in this interview.

Let’s find a way to put to rest the idea that there are “male brains” and “female brains.” (Yay Cordelia Fine!)

Here are the stories of eight “token black actors” from 90s TV shows.

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