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A pandora's box of books and culture recs. I hack through the cultural overload so you don't have to.
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Bits #81
things to read, watch, listen to and chew over
2 Girls 1 Book: Kin by Tayari Jones
8 years after the Women's Prize-winning An American Marriage, novelist Tayari Jones is back
Bits #80: GUEST EDIT by Lucy Williams
The creator and curator on her favourite things to read, watch, listen to and travel to
Sorting through my book piles + figuring out what to read next
how the sausage gets made
Bits #79
craniometry, the decline of booze, writing scandals + mediocre tv recs. Plus, the best podcast I've listened to this year
Everything I've read in 2026 so far
that I can remember/ locate
Bits #78
puberty manuals, Ann Patchett's reading life, Jon Snow's radical doc on Alzheimer's + my top 10 novels of the yr so far
Three charm novels for July
And three novels that didn't land for me
Bits #77
dopamine sites, classic novellas, The Pitt, and saying no when you want to say yes