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.…
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Tired: 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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