*The Week in 15 Selections*
hot dogs, crab dishes, and sour fish
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I spent much of last week in New York City for the Defector Birthday party and the beginning of the Normal Gossip Tour (tickets available here!).
I’m hoping to write more here from a sentimental perspective next week, but today I feel like I’ve been hit by one of those asphalt rollers. Turns out, being 34 means that I am not as good as I used to be at doing three public facing events in four days. I didn’t even get drunk enough to have a hangover! I’m washed now!
Anyway, onto the links:
Because I spent half of last week in New York, I am back to recommending one of my favorite New York traditions: eating a hot dog on the street. Wow. What a great tradition!
In a different direction: While I was in New York, Jasper and I had lunch at The Four Horsemen. There was a very exciting soft shell crab and a tomato salad that was covered in a pile of cheese. I loved it!
I try to keep track of all the restaurants I go to using an app called Beli. I find it really good I can also make lists of where I want to go and save places my friends have been.
Keeping with this newsletter’s habit of showing you beautiful homegoods I think are overpriced, look how cute these little vegetable candle holders are!
I had a lot of complicated feelings about Blake Butler’s book Molly when it came out and I think Sarah Adler articulates a lot of them in this LitHub piece about the death by suicide of her sister-in-law.
I finally finished reading Jung’s Synchronicity, which of course, happened the day someone random mentioned it to me. Jung really is that bitch.
I have at least three friends who have recommended the MEALS chef pants to me but I finally bought them and all my friends were right: they rule.
I will read every story about workers trying to unionize because the stakes are so high. This one about a pizza joint in Brooklyn, I think does a really good job.
Parul Sehgal is one of our country’s best (and only lol) book critics, but I think this article about memoirs by the children of artists is very good, and really stuck on this part, personally:
one often stumbles on a strange, sheepish disclaimer in many books about motherhood, the author explaining that babies and children are not really her primary interest, and that she is surprised to find so much to say now that she has had her own.
Usually I think that sour candy that is mostly about the gummy is “baby shit.” But these were so good that I didn’t even mind they weren’t that sour:
One of my top enemies (Tracy Anderson) said a bunch of insane things to The Cut! Know your enemy, I shout as I read every interview she ever does!!!
I drink Bulletproof Coffee with foamed organic soy milk. A lot of people don’t know, but you get the caffeine that you need out of the first two to four sips of coffee. People just keep drinking it. I never finish a whole cup.
God, I hate her. Really worth reading because all her routines are wild.
In the wake of every pundit doing a little song and dance about an evil white supremacist’s death, it’s a great week to reread Tom Scocca’s seminal blog “On Smarm.”
At this newsletter, we salute Hannah Einbinder’s perfect new rally cry: “Go Birds. Fuck Ice. Free Palestine.” Congrats on your Emmy, girl.
For lovers of the little red fish coquettes last week, I found this adorable crab-shaped butter dish that is only $35.00 on Etsy! Someone please buy him!!! (If he sells out, there’s also this cool duck)
Everyone please look at my beautiful quarterback in his game day suit. They could never make me hate you, Jalen Hurts.
This week I wrote about how the AI settlement with authors is bullshit and about how the Padres cannot stop robbing home runs. They’re addicted to crimes!
My blog where me and my coworker Chris do the challenges from The Great British Bake-Off returned and I made the little cakes.