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Sunday’s essay, “On Keeping a Notebook,” is about my evolving relationship with documentation, and how parenthood has ratcheted up its stakes.
Wednesday’s discussion thread was about anonymous Substack writer father_karine’s latest opus, “The Anti-Reality TV Essay Every Woman Should Read,” which I kicked off my sharing some points of disagreement with the essay.
This Sunday for my advice column, I’ll be responding to another Substack essay—this time at the request of a Maybe Baby reader: “Sorry But the Boyfriend Photo Is Weaponized Incompetence,” by Liz Plank. Love this topic (lol), and feel differently from Plank.
Below, a transcendent subject-author profile pairing, a great addition to the informed exceptionalism canon (if you recall, I explored this term in my Emrata essay), a perfect book cover, and more. The rec of the week is best book covers.
To free subs, this concludes my month of sharing 15 things previews. If you’d like to received the full list every Friday, upgrade below! I’ll share previews from time to time going forward.
“Backsliding,” a stunning essay by Meghan O’Gieblyn for Harper’s about will and attention, inspired by her “backslide” into alcoholism and religion in her late thirties. It’s long but honestly could have been longer! Will definitely be revisiting.
Backrooms, which I liked enough (reminded me a lot of the Giallobrutalism piece I shared last week). Fascinated by it being the highest grossing A24 movie of all time. Is that a YouTube thing? (I know the director started as a YouTuber.) As usual, Avi and I split this across two nights and I can’t say I recommend that strategy for this movie…drop your thoughts in the comments.
The wikipedia page for “bread and circuses,” a great phrase Avi used this week that I hadn’t heard before (or forgot about?).
“Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose,” by Keyana Sapp for Worse on Purpose, a newsletter/blog that investigates the quality of popular consumer brands and products, with particular care to categories overrun by private equity scammers. Some moments of this dragged for me but so happy I finished it—will never buy cookware without referencing it first!
A bunch of cat calls from two twenty-something girls at Clandestino, who were so amused to find me at a bar while pregnant that they couldn’t stop shouting at me (benevolently). Love you girls for life.
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