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Some things I read this month

• Jonathan Durbin,”Roxane Gay Is The Hardest-Working Woman In Letters” (Village Voice)
• Dayna Evans, “The Return of a Grunge Goddess” (The Cut)
• “Powell’s Q&A: Roxane Gay, Author of ‘Hunger’” (Powell’s Books)
• Adelle Platon, “Eminem’s Definition of ‘Stan’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary” (Billboard)
• Jenny Zhang, “Writer Roxane Gay on bodies, ambition, and fighting loneliness” (Rookie)

 

 

 

 

 

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Some things I read this month

• Lisa Congdon, “On Self-Employment, Workaholism and Getting My Life Back“
• Neha Sharma, “Everything Carrie Ever Wondered About on Sex and the City” (Vulture)
• Edra Ziesk, “When This You See, Remember Me” (The Millions)

 

Some things I read this month

• “Roxane Gay, Aimee Bender, and More on Assault and Harassment in the Literary World” (Literary Hub)
• Monica Heisey, “The Canadian Women Behind Some of the Internet’s Favorite Music Videos” (Broadly)
• Jeanne McCulloch & Mona Simpson, “Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137” (The Paris Review)
• Bonnie Nazdam, “Experts in the Field” (Tin House)
• Kory Stamper, “America’s Uncivil War Over Words” (The New York Times)

Some things I read this month

• Jacqueline Feldman, “The Bot Politic” (The New Yorker)
• Lacy M. Johnson, “Art in the Age of Apocalypses” (Tin House)
• Molly McArdle, “The Rise of Roxane Gay” (Brooklyn Magazine)
• David Smith, “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on transgender row: ‘I have nothing to apologise for’” (The Guardian)
• Gloria Steinem, “Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?” (The New York Times)
• Anna Maria Tremonti, “How to raise a feminist: a manifesto by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” (The Current)

• Simon Worrall, “The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon” (National Geographic)

 

 

Some things I read this month

• Rumana Ahmed, “I Was a Muslim in Trump’s White House” (The Atlantic)
• Binyamin Applebaum, “The Jobs Americans Do” (The New York Times Magazine)
• Abigail Bereola, “The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay” (The Rumpus)
• Sari Botton, “Ghost Stories” (The Millions)
• Maria Bustillos, “STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer” (Longreads)
• Amanda Fortini, “Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1” (The Paris Review)
• Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds” (The New Yorker)
• Niki Kottmann, “Trying to find the dividing line between ‘travel writing’ and ‘writing about place’” (Neiman Storyboard)
• Jenni Murray, “Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich” (The Guardian)

Some things I read this month

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About” (The New Yorker)
• Melissa Dahl, “How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running” (NY Magazine)
• “Roxane Gay: By the Book” (NY Times)
• “The Full Text of ‘Bad Feminist’ Author Roxane Gay’s WI12 Speech” (Publishers Weekly)
• Mandy Godwin, “Craving Analog in a Digital World: Why Vinyl, Film, and Old-School Experiences Are Making a Comeback” (Heleo)
• Lauren Katz, “Merriam-Webster has become the sassiest Twitter account of the Trump era. Meet its author.” (Vox)
• Amy Kaufman, “Celebration of women filmmakers triggers heated debate among Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams and Shirley MacLaine” (Los Angeles Times)
• Elizabeth King,”A Short History of the Tomboy” (The Atlantic)
• Alison Pick, “How Christmas Helped Me Discover—and Eventually Reclaim—My Jewish Roots” (Tablet Magazine)
• Chivas Sandage, “The Trouble With Confidence” (The Rumpus)
• Emily Temple, “12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise” (Literary Hub)
• Ed Yong, “How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology” (The Atlantic)

Some things I read this month

• Lauren Duca, “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America” (Teen Vogue)
• Christina Frangou, “The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s” (The Globe and Mail)
• Priscilla Frank, “Dorothea Lange’s Photos Of Imprisoned Japanese-Americans Need To Be Seen” (The Huffington Post)
• Brooke Hauser, “The Feminist Legacy of the Baby-Sitters Club” (The New Yorker)
• Meghan Markle, “I’m More Than An ‘Other’” (Elle UK)
• Michelle Miller, “Not a Widow” (The Rumpus)
• Maud Newton, “Fundamentalist Horror Film” (The Awl)
• Shelley Page, “How I sanitized the feminist outrage over the Montreal massacre” (The Ottawa Citizen)

Some things I read this month

• Roxane Gay, “Voting With My Head and Heart” (The New York Times)
• Rebecca Kauffman, “Is Social Media Toxic to Writing?” (Publishers Weekly)
• Laila Lalami, “The Identity Politics of Whiteness” (The New York Times)
• Jill Lepore, “The Film J. D. Salinger Nearly Made” (The New Yorker)
• Ira Madison III, “Donald Trump, Brought To You By The Apprentice” (MTV News)
• David Remnick, “An American Tragedy” (The New Yorker)
• Nick Ripatrazone, “Don’t Worry. Don’t Wait. Write.” (The Millions)
• Emily Temple, “Who is the Genius Behind Merriam-Webster’s Social Media?” (Literary Hub)
• Jia Tolentino, “Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos” (The New Yorker)

Some things I read this month

• Ann Hui, “Chop Suey Nation” (The Globe and Mail)
• Carolyn Y. Johnson, “The disturbing reason why we don’t believe young, black women are really doctors” (The Washington Post)
• Judith Matloff, “Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices” (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Julia Moskin, “The Funfetti Explosion” (The New York Times)
• Jia Tolentino, “Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks” (Jezebel)
• Carl Wilson, “The Impersonal is Political” (Slate)

Some things I read this month

• Roxane Gay, “Black in Middle America” (Brevity)
• Daniel A. Gross, “The Encyclopedia Reader” (The New Yorker)
• Langston Hughes, “I, Too” (The New York Times)