A very short one today, mostly just to remind you that I've gathered a few favorite LA YA authors for a virtual event tonight. Come see us talk writing queer girls in contemporary Southern California at 6:30 pm! Buy books from Skylight, ours or someone else's!! 

 

If you're wondering, what books, Zan? I interviewed Lynn Steger Strong about her new novel, Want, for Bomb, and recommend it highly. (Me and everyone else on the planet!) A few more I've enjoyed recently include Robin Wasserman's Mother Daughter Widow Wife and Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow's Big Friendship, both out now, as well as Karolina Waclwaiak's Life Events, which releases in two weeks. 

Finally, a quote from this Jia Tolentino interview about how to approach anti-racism, particularly via reading, that has resonated with me hugely, and I hope will resonate with you: