*The Week In 15 Selections*
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I finished Lolita over the weekend, and I did really love the writing. It is truly My Struggle that I love both Nabokov and Knausgaard, both of whom are fundamentally authors that men love to talk about too much. It was a great read and also I am happy it is over. Though I intentionally read Sad Tiger and Lolita back to back I’m ready to move back into the realm of literature where the monsters are more relatable and less insane.
Anyway, it is Monday and monday is link day and here are the links:
For my birthday, I bought myself a beautiful haunted lamp at Anastacia's Antiques. It's from the 1930s (but has been rewired) and I love it!
Last weekend, me and my friend SG did a double feature of two banger movies: *Dirty Dancing* and *Pretty Woman*. Perfect films about sluts with hearts of gold. 3. Great article by Mary Townsend in *The Bulwark* about Agnes Callard's new book on Socrates. If none of these words many anything to you, just read it! You'll like it!
I've been talking constantly to anyone who will listen about how not enough happens in novels (and stories in general) anymore. (My theory is because it is hard to imagine things to happen and easier to imagine feelings). But all my ranting remdinded me of Bobbie Gentry's banger "Ode to Billie Joe"
I wish I had more of a modern sleek design-ethos so that I could buy these beautiful beautiful butter dishes:
My colleague Giri Nathan is one of my favorite working writers. I haven't read his book about tennis yet, but I am loving his coverage of the U.S. Open because I dream of getting into tennis.
Speaking of the U.S. Open. This New York Times article about which celebrities are famous enough to get in rules.
I love when a cold case gets solved so the crime podcasters are forced to take someone off their lists. This article about finding Michelle Vanek 19 years after she disappeared is spooky and cool.
Idk where The Cut finds these people but I devoured this article about someone who had to leave her boyfriend because he fell into a weird career coaching cult.
I read Molly Young's Zine Privacy last week in one big gulp. I will read almost anything about pregnancy when it is available, but this suffered from the same thing most pregnancy writing suffers from to me which is a distance between the writing and the experience, which seems magical and horrible and all-encompassing. I'm glad it exists, though, and that people are starting to publish their own shit that publishers won't take.
This expensive website for fancier people than me continues to ruin my life by taunting me with stuff I want but which are very much out of my price range. Look how cute these little fish dishes are!
12. My friend Kyle sent me this article about Selena Gomez's mom's company and how it fell to pieces, and let me tell you, I gobbled it up. What a mess!
13. I cried the first time I saw this TikTok because I was laughing so hard.
14. This Dionne Warwick (the queen!!) tweet is exactly why I will never leave any social media site by choice. Do NOT recommend Emily in Paris to her!!!
15. Content warning for… uh… everything. I had to stop several times from rage while reading this Wired article about a venture capitalist who hired a surrogate to carry her child and then tried to destroy her after the baby died in utero is bleak and bad and we need to destroy Silicon Valley immediately.
This week I wrote about how I wish Donald Trump would die.
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