Sophie Egan interviewed about Devoured, the book she wrote about food in our culture. She refers to brunch as 'secular church' which is enough to make me love her.
Feminism and Pop-Culture with Lisa Jervis by Alice Hines at The New Yorker. Bitch magazine at 20.
Carol Ann Duffy Takes a Road Trip at The Guardian - please someone write a novella about a young person who encounters these extraordinary women on their travels and finds her way to poetry, something that is a struggle as she has never felt that she understood poetry really, and maybe didn't want to and is facing up to her own ignorance and the society she grew up in that rejected rhyme and rhythm and "meaning." Make literary awareness the struggle. Make it about facing elitism. Feed her stanzas like sandwiches and sonnets like a souffle. Surround her in form and free-form and voices near and distant and tell her story. This is a tour that should be a must-see for anyone in the vicinity.
Workout Routines for Booklovers from Buzzfeed
Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer "In the late 19th Century, a teenaged girl arrives in a Mississippi River town and political and social conflicts of the town and time first-hand -- helped by a very progressive-minded mentor." - you guys, I want this book to be good - is it?
Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee "Stacey Lee's second historical novel introduces a headstrong
Chinatown teen whose "bossy cheeks" help her - and many others - survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."
I am beyond ready for stories about women and girls having adventures and growing up into their personalities and getting lost and getting found and finding things and setting out on road trips and arguing about Twizzlers in the console.
This gorgeous post on The Toast: Kind-Hearted Reality Shows I Would Like to See and the loving and delighted comments from people who clearly have the same narrative needs that I do, which means that they are intelligent and inspired people.
Another Round episode 56
"Take your meds
Drink some water"*
Call someone who loves you
Tell your stories
Let them rhyme
Open your eyes, the world is massive
*life advice from AnotherRound
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