When immigrants tell their own stories, they do a better job than when other people tell their stories. SHOCKING. Also, I am super pumped to read Behold the Dreamers. I haven’t read enough litrature by Cameroonian authors!

Vulture’s got their fall entertainment generator again! I love this thing. You can sort by FEELINGS and I LOVE FEELINGS.

Speaking of which, if you’re having feelings about Nate Parker, Birth of a Nation, and the rape charges against Parker from his college years, April Reign has a great piece at Essence on consent and remorse. Vulture has a roundtable on the question of Is It Still Okay to See Birth of a Nation? Ugh okay and I can’t stop adding things on to here but we live in an amazing age for cultural criticism, so also here’s Noah Berlatsky on separating the art from the artists and the wondrous Morgan Jenkins on the complexities of the case.

The guy who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye is slightly, but not totally, sorry.

A book about which I felt politely(ish) horrified at first and now find really deeply annoying because the more famous and praised it becomes, the more it feels exploitative of actual survivors of rape, has been optioned for a TV series. Like maybe talk to some survivors of childhood sexual abuse before making this show, producers.

A primer on what’s going on with the Hugos, and what WorldCon is doing to fix them.

Ruth Ware on the reason she always writes unreliable narrators (it’s because they’re the most honest kind).¹

Happy Friday to you all, and have an excellent weekend!

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The psychological toll of reporting on black deaths in America. Do newsrooms have social workers? I feel like they should. Or some sort of institutionalized debriefing situation.

What defines the Gothic (with examples from some of my literally most favorite ever in this world authors).

I maybe liked The Man from UNCLE an eensy smidge more than Wesley Morris did, but I can’t argue with his review of it. Except for the criticisms of Henry Cavill. I really liked Henry Cavill in this movie. Also, yes, he and Armie Hammer should make out.

Let’s let mental health professionals run jails. Agree?

An update on what’s happening with the Sad Puppies, by a woman who seems to share my exact feelings about Orson Scott Card.

And for those of you who were horrified that Russians don’t have any cheddar cheese, an update on the cheese situation in Russia.

The fall is coming (please God let it be true), and Vulture has a recommendations generator for those of you not sure what you want to read, watch, and listen to in the upcoming months.

Emma Donoghue writes about the experience of being on a movie set while your book is turned into a film.

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