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Hey! Why is this newsletter a day late this week, you may ask? It's because I looked at the clock on my computer yesterday, realized it was Thursday at 12:32pm Eastern, and that the march of time had proceeded this week without consulting me. Y'all, I just totally forgot. That has never happened in a year and a half of making this newsletter, but impeachment + some impending life events will do that, I guess??
Anyway, thanks for your patience. Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you:
- "My change of circumstance made me hyperaware of what I wanted everyone to see: a woman in charge of herself. A Strong Woman Doing Well On Her Own. A woman (I’m sorry) thriving. The logic was this: if I looked good I was doing well, in a way that anyone could see before I opened my mouth. I was tired of the gentle arm squeezes and soft-eyed how-you-holding-ups, of people checking in to make sure I was 'taking care of myself.' I figured that becoming inarguably, conventionally attractive would cut them off at the pass, giving them a narrative they understood ('glow up' is a universal language) and saving myself the trouble of figuring out what I actually felt."
- Jia Tolentino (click) on The Westing Game (double-click).
- Ta-Nehisi Coates and his editor, Chris Jackson, talk about Coates' new book—his debut novel.
- Money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns. (Also, more climate protests today!)
- I'm really appreciating Emily Atkin's "Heated," a newsletter about climate change that covers unexpected angles with intelligence, emotion, and savvy.
- Communist Bops.
- "So J.Lo’s album hadn’t come out yet, and nobody had started talking about her ass yet—and I swear I saw her (J.Lo), and ran to get my sister JUST to show her how beautiful that ass was—and the moment I pointed her out to my sister, J.Lo turned to speak to someone and her butt was just above table-level, and her butt knocked over someone’s glass of champagne and she didn’t even notice. It was glorious." —Fiona Apple tells her J.Lo story, among other things, in a great interview for Vulture.
- Zero degrees C.
- Movie interlude: I adored "Hustlers"—it's funny, touching, and says big things about women and America—and I can't wait for Rian Johnson's "Knives Out."
- If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it?
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Bye,
Laura
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