🔖 Read The Comfort of Drawing Batman by Austin Kleon.
Austin Kleon’s newsletter is the one that I let come to my inbox even after I’ve switched all the rest to RSS. You should read the preview of this and if you like it, do the 7-day trial so you can read the whole thing.
🔖🍔🥤 Read The Enduring Mystery of Cook Out.
A Cook Out Junior Tray with a cheeseburger (mayo only), double fries, and Coke was the first meal I had after giving birth, and it was the best meal I’ve ever eaten. (I can’t remember if I also got a shake.)
🔖📚 Read Sherlock Holmes self-insert fanfic written by a 7th grader in 1903.
I love this so much.
🔖 Read Frida Kahlo’s life of chronic pain by Carol A. Courtney (OUPblog).
Looking for examples of chronically ill and disabled creatives to be models for myself. Frida Kahlo is such a great one.
🔖 Read Welcome to Your Cronehood by Catherine Newman (Cup of Jo).
I am not psyched about menopause. I’ve already lived a lot of my life for me rather than other people, so I feel ahead of the curve there.
🔖🗺️ Read How Paris Hopes the Summer Olympics Will Transform the City—for Good by Lindsey Tramuta (Condé Nast Traveler).
This is a fascinating article. Paris’s commitment to hosting the most sustainable Olympics ever and transforming an underresourced area for the long-term is inspiring.
🔖📚 100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read by James Folta (Lit Hub)
This is the kind of content carefully calibrated to please me, specifically.
🔖📚 Read Notes on Romance Novels as “Camp”.
Andrea, author of the Shelf Love newsletter, does an amazing job of arguing for romance novels as Camp.
📚🔖 Read The Literary Power of Hobbits: How JRR Tolkien Shaped Modern Fantasy by Verlyn Flieger (Literary Hub)
Dr. Flieger says:
🔖 Read Ten Years Out of Academia by Anne Helen Petersen.
I’m 3 years out from my doctoral defense and 6 months out from holding an academic job. I told an internet friend:
Right now it feels like librarian is the identity that was always really mine and academic was borrowed.
