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The Audacious Roundup

For the week of March 13th

Roxane Gay
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The March selection for the Audacious Book Club is Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. We will be in conversation with Lamya on March 30th at 8 pm EST/5pm PST. Registration is now open!

I am reading submissions to The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series. Read the guidelines and submit your best writing. Submissions will be open until I have 24 essays.

Don’t Forget: Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman. Debbie also created The Remarkable Life Deck, if you want to think through what the next decade of your life could look like. The cards are really beautiful and this is such a valuable exercise for looking ahead and taking stock of where you are. I don’t say that lightly. Normally, this isn’t my kind of thing but The Remarkable Life Deck is excellent.

If you’re looking for a nice notebook, check out my new Draft Writing Journal from Baron Fig. It’s pretty swank if I do say so myself AND back in stock.

And if you’re looking for some writing instruction, you might want to check out my Masterclass.


In this week’s Work Friend, too many nipples at work, how to frame a demotion on a resumé, leaving a job where your absence will be felt, and advocating for a promotion. Dig in!

Joel Gay Creative Fellow Jesus B. Rodriguez is joining the Washington Post as a political reporter with the Style section. Very excited to see what he does there.

Hand wringing about cancel culture is nothing new.

Matika Wilbur is trying to photograph every indigenous tribe in the U.S. and there is a great profile of her in The Times.

A conversation with Massa Gessen about trans rights.

Dobbs has disrupted many medical students’ educations. Among so many other travesties.

The Great British Baking Show has a new co-host and I for one am excited.

Ice Ice Matrix (via my wife Debbie who always sends me fun things to click click click).

In an Idaho town, a hospital is shuttering its labor and delivery ward. It’s so interesting to see what supposedly pro-life people have wrought by legislating people’s bodies.

The former president could be indicted next week, and it’s not a moment too soon.

A dancing machine. Let the rhythm move you!

RIP Lance Reddick, who elevated everything he was ever in. This is such a loss. He seemed like a wonderful man.

An interview with Law Roach about why he is retiring as a celebrity stylist.

MacDowell is hiring a finance director!

There have been some really bewildering, ridiculous and enraging AITAs lately!

I have a soft spot for Ben Affleck and this was a great interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

AI + Gmail seems like a disaster in the making.

As the 2024 race warms up, we’re going to start hearing more stories about the various candidates with odd eating habits, anger problems, etc.

A conversation with Zaya Wade.

Here’s the lineup for the 2023 Los Angeles Festival of Books.

A state legislator in Nebraska has been filibustering for three weeks to impede anti-trans legislation.

Recipes, unwritten and written, and the shape of our cooking lives.

A profile of Djimon Hounsou, who has had quite a difficult journey through Hollywood.

New essay from Saskia Vogel, “Beyond Deep Throat, Part 1.”

As the feminist media sphere shrinks, where are feminists supposed to publish their work?

On those stolen, unpublished manuscripts… the guy seems pretty harmless and his excuse is weirdly sweet.

What Andrew Tate means to young men.

Another day, another GOP politician doing one thing in public while lurking in the closet.

Beyond land acknowledgments.

A profile of Catherine Lacey.

“False Star,” a short story by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain.

Soraya McDonald goes hard on why we need a better alternative to the Oscars.

Zoe Whittall on dating a pathological liar.

Millennials are becoming middle-aged, and it may not look the way they expected.

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and then Signature Bank collapsed and it seems like that’s pretty bad! I don’t want to hear shit about student loan debt relief ever again because once again, banks (wealthy people, mostly) are being bailed out.

This profile of Kelly Link was so very charming.

Good news! Women can swim topless in Berlin.

The Oscars happened. The ceremony was way too long. There were some disappointments. There were some real triumphs. Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress, and congratulations to her; she stays fine. My friend Pamela was robbed.

What Michelle Yeoh taught a writer about motherhood.

This one time, an editor wrote a novel.

An interesting essay from Justin Chang about Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

Over in the UK, a BBC sportscaster, Gary Lineker, was suspended for daring to share a moderate opinion but' it’s all okay now.

What happens when you grow up as one of those kids who make content out of your childhood?

Three women in Texas are being sued by the inseminator of a woman who they helped get abortion medication. It’s all so macabre but this is where we’ve been headed for some time now.

Nathan Englander on his relationship to Tom Cruise over the years.


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Isle McElroy @isle_mcelroy
yes nyc is too expensive and the streets are icky with rats but sometimes when you’re leaving the subway your beanie falls out of your bag and everyone shouts YOUR HAT YOUR HAT and one man crouches down to scoop it up to your hands and it occurs to you, Ah, yes, I get it now
8:26 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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Patrick Neve @catholicpat
I tried to take peanut butter through airport security. TSA: Sorry, no liquids, gels, or aerosols. Me: I want you to tell me which of those things you think peanut butter is.
2:55 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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Cat Cardenas @catrcardenas
Tom Cruise will base jump, fly fighter jets, and drive a motorcycle off a cliff, but won’t appear in the same room as Nicole Kidman. Her power.
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Page Six @PageSix
Tom Cruise missed Oscars to avoid seeing ex Nicole Kidman in person: report https://t.co/6nDHht4cEW https://t.co/618Od8eoKx
7:15 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
111,055Likes10,242Retweets
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Billy Crystal @BillyCrystal
Thank you all..
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4:04 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
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Nicole Byer aka peppa pig slut @nicolebyer
I just watched no less than 3 men help a tiny lady put her suitcase in the overhead bin. When it was my turn all three men sat and stared at me and then I remembered fat women are dirt ghosts
10:36 PM ∙ Mar 12, 2023
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Jarrett Bellini @JarrettBellini
Imagine waiting your whole life to be at the Oscars and you end up sitting behind a stratus cloud.
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12:13 AM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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Brian Rowe @mrbrianrowe
Michelle Yeoh’s preparation for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Just AMAZING.
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3:02 PM ∙ Mar 3, 2023
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SZA @sza
Realizing Angela Basset doesn’t already have an Oscar make me wanna knock shit over
6:35 AM ∙ Mar 12, 2023
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg
if chris rock goes onstage tonight, someone better be brave enough to do the funniest thing in the world
5:20 PM ∙ Mar 12, 2023
137,979Likes8,647Retweets
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maxance vincent @MaxFromQuebec
Jessica Chastain's dedication to not getting sick is unparalleled. An icon. #Oscars
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12:25 AM ∙ Mar 13, 2023
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mariana Z @mariana057
I was arguing with a guy at a bar. He said he was a big pop star in the 80s. I didn’t believe him, but he was adamant…
10:00 PM ∙ Mar 11, 2023
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Halli @iamharaldur
Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government. You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.
11:18 PM ∙ Mar 10, 2023
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Michal
Mar 19

I see Idaho made the roundup again (I live in Moscow, Idaho). It's been rough lately. Thank you for paying attention!

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Holly Whitaker
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Mar 18

“A soft spot for Ben Affleck” makes you so endearing and mysterious

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