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Hi hi. A reminder that the jobs section that used to be in the P.S. of this newsletter has grown up into a newsletter of its very own and you can subscribe here. Thanks to everyone who's already signed up or spread the word. ✨
Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you:
- An oral history of web comics; a history of mommy blogs.
- Hear Sylvia Plath read 15 poems from her last collection, Ariel.
- History interlude: Researchers have discovered that the famous Revolutionary War general Casimir Pulaski, after whom bridges and days and Sufjan Stevens songs are named, was likely either intersex or a woman (!); founding fathers as birds; Buckle-Up Twitter is cancelled.
- Why do we all have to be beautiful? And a call-back to a classic: You don't have to be pretty.
- An interview with Stacey Abrams about money and debt: "For the millions of people who are doing the very best they can and who still have to struggle, I want them to know that they are right and the others are wrong. It is not a shame to be in debt. It is a shame to let debt crush you."
- Tools and tricks: If you're a Chrome user, please know this and be free. (And you already know about typing doc.new or sheets.new into the URL bar, right?) Also: Gram Places.
- I love how Anna Sale, the host of the podcast Death, Sex, and Money, creates and advertises "Maternity Leave Line-ups" of guest hosts. It's a small, fun way to normalize taking family leave and doing it proudly.
- How to catch an emu and sneakers as birds. (There's been a higher-than-usual volume of bird content in this week's edition, and you know what? I do not apologize.)
- Vogue has a recurring video feature called "73 Questions With" that I did not have high expectations for but the Phoebe Waller-Bridge one and the Emily Blunt one are both delightful so I can recommend the ones with British actors in them at the very least.
- Today is the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s passing in 2007. Here's a poem he published on the occasion of the death of his friend Joseph Heller:
Joe Heller
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!
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Bye,
Laura
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