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HAPPY FRIDAY. Thank god we made it. It was a fast and furious week. Between the Byline team, there was a warehouse consolidation (archive sale coming soon), a corporate leadership training camp, a vacation stint in Telluride, a cameo in Puerto Rico, and so much more. We also published a few banger stories, including Bea Isaacson’s Two Truth’s and a Body, Gutes Guterman’s interview with Come to Brasil’s Lina Abascal, Charlie Rinehart-Jones’ review of the greatest theater in New York (spoiler: it’s at the Rockaways), Michael Martin-del-Campo’s Nights of Grace, and more. Don’t miss a beat and subscribe here.

And now for Byline News…

• Friend of the mag Max Wolf Friedlich has a new play called The Holes. If it’s anything close to what he told us it would be about the last time we talked, you’re all in for a shocking delight of a story.

• GODFRIEND, a live-theater-musical-spiritual-combo-meal, is coming to The Tank.

• We love an admin reveal. The Boring not com reveal in Puck, where Lauren Sherman reveals a central figure behind Boring Not Com, the anonymous Instagram account that the fashion industry loves to hate, but also occasionally can’t help but love, came out last week. Tea.

• Shaad Magazine published “The interview Role Model didn’t want you to see,” where he leaked the fact that his girlfriend Dakota Johnson is on the album. Sounds like his Sally has been found.

• Ali Royals went boots on the ground in Wisconsin for Biz Sherbert’s American Style. Read all about it here.

“How often is one asked to leave the Island of Manhattan and embark on a voyage ever-closer toward America’s Heartbeat? And how often does one have the pleasure of saying yes to such a request? For me, it was just this once. So here I am, in the tiny town of Hayward, Wisconsin, with 10 other miscellaneous New York City-based creatives.”

• Megan O'Sullivan had words for Vogue about America’s Sweethearts, otherwise known as the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Read them here. Or if you get paywalled, Meg posted most of the article here.

“Since leaving Dallas in my early 20s, I’ve found solace roughly 1,500 miles east of my hometown, in New York. But the wiser part of me has always sensed that eventually a stroke of fate would lead me to reembrace my roots. I just never expected that event to arrive in the form of 36 star-spangled, spray-tanned women sashaying and high-kicking across my television screen.”

• Isabelle Timmerman, Empress of Delulu Land, announced her new book, Delulu Behavior Theory, out January 12th.

• Phoebe Bridgers takes a swing at Gracie Abrams—who’s famously dating Phoebe’s ex, Paul Mescal—in her new album, Lost Days. On her track “The Governor’s Waltz,” she purportedly (we’re writing this the day before the album comes out) sings: “And she can pretend to be me/ Since she took my place in my bed on that stage/ I have not lost any sleep.” Personally, if I was Phoebe Bridgers, I wouldn’t lose any sleep either.

• There’s a Gilmore Girls documentary in the works! We’ve been dying to take a trip back to Stars Hollow, so this can’t come soon enough.

• Pinky the Magazine (of Girls Carrying Shit fame) just dropped their 10th issue: Shame vs. Shamelessness. Contributors include Mackenzie Thomas, Quincy Whipple, and Tatiana Ringsby.

• Audrey Hobert samples 2000s legends The Teddybears in what’s hopefully her next single Punkrocker. We’ve been loving the new gen pop girls collabing with the old school rockstars, like Olivia Rodrigo and the Smashing Pumpkins at Lollapalooza.

• Vogue World is taking its talents to…San Francisco! Should we be preparing for the future of Tech Fashion Week? Our group chat had thoughts on this. Will keep them to ourselves for now.

• Amanda Lee Burkett’s latest for Airmail.

• Dua Lipa is reading Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs. It was once asked “What’s the export?” of Dimes Square. Here is yet another.

• Released by Printed Matter, The Virgil Reader, Volume 001 is Virgil Abloh Archive’s first printed publication, offering insight into Virgil’s creative process, ideas, and cultural commentary through interviews and archival materials spanning fashion, design, music, and art.

• Our August to-do list.

Have a lovely weekend. We’re in that last sliver of summer, so if you were ever going to start living large, the time is now.

Tag yourself, we’re Put all my eggs in one basket (Gutes), Cry over spilt milk (Ali), and Bite off more than I can chew (Meg).