My one problem with Poor Things is, Bella Baxter should have had armpit hair. She had long jet black hair and ahem other body hair. Hard to imagine anyone shaving her pits against her will. In conclusion that is why I shan't be awarding this movie The Academy Award
instead of watching the Oscars last night I watched Oscar van Rhijn lose his family's fortune on television's best worst show, The Gilded Age, a show that is absolutely committed to having 100 subplots none of which can ever be satisfactorily resolved
My therapist suggested "who's your favorite Beatle" as a neutral spousal conversation topic for an upcoming road trip but because we watched Get Back we are both now, boringly, "Paul"
@Rebecca_Gams
come to think of it her mani pedi situation was also unrealistic, but then again this movie had flying gondolas from a deco cruise ship to a slave island hotel
The personal essay that lets the writer self-immolate is a genre, and it's been a genre for at least a decade, but what's interesting is that it's a genre only for women.*
* to write. Anyone can enjoy reading it.
@SomersErin
"It's going great here in NYC this lovely September," thought a character who had specific hopes and dreams and plans for the immediate future
once again I'm so close to just making a shitty squarespace site as a Gawker clone so I can have a different website to check multiple times a day for "cool links" and "fun bits of text"
will the least talented Gummer sister enter a loveless marriage? Will Peggy write a newspaper article that integrates schools? Will George Russell block unionization? Who will sit in the most coveted box at the new Met? I am both deeply invested and also not invested at all?
"I believe he may be the main source of the hatred that has been directed toward me, likely driven by jealousy that I have achieved something he never could." !!!
featuring
@333333333433333
, Dakota Johnson, Hello Sunshine, Belletrist, Kaia Gerber, Kendall Jenner,
@slayagonzales
, and “We are all so desperate for people to give a shit about books that honestly we’ll take all we can get.”
if you are not obsessively listening to Courtney Love and
@harvilla
's podcast Courtney Love's Women and scrutinizing every detail of it I assume we have little in common
"It’s almost unimaginable now that Suzanne Scanlon, who’s an English professor in Chicago and the author of two novels, spent three years of her early 20s in a state mental institution."
I was so lucky to get to talk to one of my writer heroes,
@lucyprebblish
, in advance of the US production of her play The Effect (at the Shed March 3-31). We talked I HATE SUZIE, Succession, mental health, the works
Adelle Waldman (
@adellewaldman
), the author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., worked at a big-box store to research her riveting and important new novel, Help Wanted. Read all about it!
I was so lucky to get dishy, unvarnished writing advice from Kelly Link, whose new novel The Book of Love will take you AWAY FROM ALL THIS for almost 700 perfect pages ...
Emily Gould talks with the veteran short-story writer about adolescence, the romance genre, and her sprawling, fantastical new work ‘The Book of Love.’
Introducing
@EmilyGouldNYmag
's advice column,
#GoingThroughIt
: Advice on work, parenting, relationships and mental health from someone who's failed (and also succeeded) at all four. First up: a writer suspects her beloved is trashing her on Goodreads
✨HOMETOWN READING!!!✨ LA is where I had my first sleepover, my first kiss, my first breakup, my first all-nighter, my first world-defining friendships, my first everything. This place is inside me forever. Always means so much to come back🌴💖
There are as many ways to be a girlie as there are to be a human being, which lends the word both its charm and its deplorable meaninglessness.
@EmilyGouldNYmag
writes
last week every girl and teen had a normal water bottle and this week they all have those tall ones with the straws, as if a shipment of them was airdropped on NYC
@sarahhepola
I got a lot (a LOT) of emails from strangers about the essay and all but two of them were about loving it, feeling seen etc. Maybe people are more likely to share their opinion in a public forum if it's negative and more likely to share it in private if it's positive? Idk
"Yes, I thought, nodding—that’s why they call the most notable literary movement of the past 10 years autofiction, because it’s looking *aut*ward." I loled
@dankois
My second advice column is here! "my father remarried a dotty narcissist (think of the mom from Fleabag). She says vaguely critical things, touches everyone sensually, and is obsessed with my toddler, who might be too young to tell she’s off."
Death, Let Me Do My Show, Rachel Bloom’s one-woman Off Broadway production, uses the built-in tropes and inherent corniness of musical theater to tiptoe her way into saying something profound about grief and loss. Read her
#Encounter
with
@EmilyGouldNYmag
"I think this exhibition is going to go down in the art-history textbooks, and I think it’s going to be talked about quite richly, actually." I talked to Brooklyn Museum's Anne Pasternak about "It's Pablo-Matic":
Phew, it's finally here! Everything you ever wanted to know about Park Slope Parents (
@parkslopeparent
), the long-lived and influential website responsible for creating a parenting archetype (and also helping a lot of people)
came here shallowly looking for predictions about what authors would attend the ceremony and what they would wear, stayed for a thoughtful analysis of the art of literary adaptation and some casual damning thoughts about Poor Things
Today's advice column is about the nightmare that is CHILDCARE. "My class-based resentments linger in my friendships with families who can afford nannies."
waiting to be called up for jury duty = reading allll the comments on the Huberman story. Cannot in good conscience recommend this (people are bananas) but there ARE some very spicy ones
In her second novel, “Help Wanted,” Adelle Waldman animates the daily routines of a group of employees at a superstore in the Hudson Valley, lingering on the superfluous grace that they discover in the performance of rote tasks.
I'd like to legally ban "shimmering" "coruscant" "sparkling" "glimmering" "glistening" etc from every book review and blurb ... stop trying to convince me that words are shiny ... the one exception is if you're discussing SPARKELLA by Channing Tatum