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For the week of August 30th

Roxane Gay
Sep 7, 2021
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Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman is available for pre-order. Yes, this link will be available in this newsletter until it goes on sale on 10/26.

Our next book selection is Renunciations by Donika Kelly. Sign up on Literati to join our great discussions about the book of the month. You can register, now, for our conversation with Donika on September 22nd.

Tressie, Debbie Millman and I are hosting a writing workshop retreat in July 2022. You can also register for this if you want to spend a weekend with us.

Roxane Gay Books is open for submissions.

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Why don’t McFlurry machines ever seem to work? An eternal mystery has attracted the attention of the FTC.

SSDD, magazine edition.

On waning immunity (it’s totally normal).

A great profile of an abortion doctor.

Jeff Yang on Asian Americans and finally starting to see the representation they deserve.

A profile of Maggie Nelson.

This made my blood boil.

I do not care for Sweetgreen salads. I prefer Chop’t which makes a delicious salad. Sweetgreen salads are not pleasant to eat. It is a bunch of twigs and leaves and raw nonsense with bland salad dressing. Each bite is more depressing than the last. When I even think of a Sweetgreen salad, I feel like I am chewing dry paper. It’s visceral. So it is no surprise that the Sweetgreen CEO is fatphobic and thinks his company’s salads can, like, prevent COVID.

Joe Rogan’s head has expanded significantly since Fear Factor, a show he once hosted. I think about that sometimes. No judgment. Anyway, he has COVID.

Jami Attenberg writes about making it through Hurricane Ida.

Crime rings.

A short story by Dawnie Walton.

A profile of my friend and former editor Isaac Fitzgerald. A great guy.

The demise of the girlboss.

Yet another grave injustice.

Texas has passed some truly macabre abortion legislation.

Terrible people walk back egregious policy but stay terrible.

Tacos!

Asshole loses second job in one week.

A piece on Jaboukie.

Gorilla RX Wellness is the first Los Angeles dispensary owned by a woman!

On the children fathered, and left behind by UN peacekeepers.

Blah blah blah crypto blah blah blah.

Vote NO on recalling Gavin Newsom, if you live in California, because if he is ousted, this fucking guy could become governor.

Nia DaCosta’s Candyman is the first feature film directed by a black woman to debut at #1. Which…. what? In 2021???

Judges wild out sometimes.

I gasped when I read the headline for this article. IKEA is testing new store formats. Noooooooo.

The best pen.

What did you get up to for the long weekend?


I am haunted by this man voluntarily launching himself into this fetid, toxic water.

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Philly wild right now

September 2nd 2021

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Ima say Candyman 5 times while my homie says Beetlejuice 3 times and we gon make em fight

September 2nd 2021

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@leaveit2bia_ This was probably the video that did it

September 1st 2021

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The problem with this country is people who make $700 per hour have convinced people who make $25 per hour that people who make $7.25 per hour are the problem.

August 29th 2021

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just heard someone say the professional way to say “fuck around and find out” is “test that assumption at your earliest convenience” and i had to take a moment

August 28th 2021

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Louisiana city names be whooping the weather channel’s ass 😂

August 29th 2021

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Kari Morton
Sep 10, 2021

Hi! I'd like to confirm the Donika Kelly discussion is on September 22? The roundup from the week of August 23 says September 21, but this one and the Zoom link say September 22.

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Caitlin
Sep 7, 2021

I'm having trouble registering for the Donika Kelly discussion using the link above - it tries to launch a Zoom meeting. Am I doing something wrong?

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