this week’s style inspo:
Robin Williams, underrated fashion icon
what i’m clicking:
The price of a childhood turned into content | The Huberman gossip | What it’s like to be a therapist for the super rich | The rise and fall of the tradwife | This batshit essay about marrying an older man | This batshit essay about the lure of divorce | This batshit essay about getting scammed | This batshit marathon | The untold story of mature onlyfans performers | Cabbage is cool | So is smoking, apparently | Teen subcultures are fading | The trans skaters of America’s growing queer skate scene | The carryon baggage bubble is about to pop | The inside story of a beached whale | A teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld | What a major solar storm could do to our planet | A cuisine under siege
what i’m wanderlusting:
Paris in springtime (and Maison Proust)
what i’m listening to:
Black Classical Music by Yussef Dayes
what i’m coveting:
This handpainted silk dress from No Borders
what i’m watching:
I finally watched the last season of Sex Education on netflix and weeped through the finale. It’s so sweet.
what i’m recommending:
I just got back from Puerto Escondido, where I spent an entire paycheck on sparkly bikinis and slinky dresses from Anamexicana.
what i’m bookclubbing:
We’ll be discussing Dolly Alderton’s Good Material next month in Brooklyn - let me know if you’d like to join!
what i’m reading:
Kate Brody
I was 45 minutes late to dinner with friends because I could. Not. Stop. Reading this book. I am so jealous I didn’t write this.
Did it make me laugh or cry: I do think I cried, actually.
Would I recommend it: YES! If you need an unputdownable book that doesn’t feel *too* trashy, you need to read this.
Would it be a good movie: Maybe? Like in a Mare of Eastown way?
Becky Chambers
I absolutely adored these two sweet books (A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown Shy) set in a post-apocalyptic world. They’re hopeful and cozy, but there’s also something deeply poignant about them. I’m jealous of people who haven’t read these books yet because it means you get to read them for the first time.
Did it make me laugh or cry: Maybe a little of both but no, not really.
Would I recommend it: If you like sci-fi (but not fantasy, there are no dragons or anything) that borders on YA, you’ll like these.
Would it be a good movie: I pictured the books as a Miyazaki x Pixar film as I was reading them, so I would love to see them made into an animated film.
Maggie Shipstead
I loved loved loved The Great Circle but this book was so different and is not even remotely in the same league. Still, it was pretty fun to read, especially if you’re familiar with the sort of elite East Coast summer destinations it’s making fun of.
Did it make me laugh or cry: No.
Would I recommend it: No, not really.
Would it be a good movie: An emphatic YES PLEASE!!!!!! If only Chevy Chase could be cast as the father.
Avni Doshi
Feels like an Elena Ferrante novel set in India (no wonder it was shortlisted for the Booker prize)
C Pam Zhang
So weird, so fun, so delicious
Barbara Kingsolver
I’m the last person on earth to read this book but everything they say is true! It’s fantastic (and devastating)
Muriel Spark
This disturbing little number from 1970 was a perfect vacation read