AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGS
Our November selection is The Women’s Hotel by Daniel Lavery and he will join us on November 20th at the usual time. Registration is open!
THE NEWSLETTER WEEK IN REVIEW
PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL NEWS
Debbie Millman has a new book, Love Letter to a Garden, and it will be published on April 15th, 2025. Also included in the book are 10 recipes by me—a mini cookbook if you will. Pre-orders are open!
Megan Pillow and I wrote a book called Do the Work. The Tenth Anniversary edition of Bad Feminist is available. The Portable Feminist Reader is coming out on February 18th, 2025. Pre-orders are now open and it is always a huge help when you pre-order.
READING MATERIAL
New issue of Hammer & Hope just dropped!
Meet a lethal lady python hunter!
I didn’t know rare book dealers could be controversial but here we are! I do enjoy niche intrigue.
This lady’s husband didn’t think she should vote so she didn’t and then he died so this year, at 81, she voted for the first time. I’m so happy for her. RIP motherfucker.
Not sure when (well, this article clarifies that uncertainty) but cheerleading became quite the death defying sport. It’s incredible to watch but… at what cost?
Kamala Harris, the next president of the United States, was on SNL.
And finally, a poll that offers some hope that armageddon is not nigh. Even The Economist has endorsed Harris. It’s quite something to see how many unexpected organizations and people and publications have endorsed Harris.
It’s also good to know that Michelle Obama is still an exceptional orator and, perhaps, Harris’s best surrogate.
The Washington Post is still hemorrhaging subscribers. F A A F O.
People hired to canvas for Elon Musk and whatever the fuck he has going on, say they were deceived and mistreated and given that Musty is involved, it’s not surprising. Speaking of, he worked in the US illegally. Of course he did!
Season 2 of The Diplomat is out and it’s pretty good. I really enjoy the show and am excited to dive back in. And I guess Wicked is pretty good, too. I can’t wait to see that movie though, as we’ve discussed here previously, I am so angry that it is a two-parter.
Tony Tulathimutte’s Grub Street diet. A conversation with Deborah Levy.
The people behind celebrity novels. I think the wildest celebrity novel I’ve ever read was Starlit by Lisa Rinna. It was absolute trash but readable as hell. I couldn’t put that book down though I use the term book loosely. I feel like she wrote it herself, for that reason. There is this freaky guy who uses honey in little bear containers and it’s just depraved. Check it out!
Brandon Taylor reviewed Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo. It’s an interesting review. And people are in their feelings about it. It’s always amusing that literary folks bemoan a dearth of rigorous criticism but then when presented with rigorous criticism, they’re all, “No! Not like that!” Pick a lane. Also, it’s good to have a range of critical responses to work! It’s interesting.
Yet another woman has died because of an abortion ban. This is going to be regular news until abortion is codified into federal law.
Susanna Clarke reminds us that good writing takes as long as it takes. As I work on my next two books, which are so very very past due, I am trying to remind myself of this.
What Bernie Sanders is up to.
RIP Teri Garr. I loved her in almost everything she did.
Those folks who thought they were getting one over on Chase Bank, of all things, are now being sued. The house always wins, friends.
A reminder that this country and border states in particular, would not function without undocumented immigrants and their contributions to this country.
Lisa Ko on literary institutions trying to pressure writers to remain silent on Gaza.
In Canada, concerns about euthanization and particularly vulnerable patients.
Apples are extra delicious these days. Science says so!
Everything is going to be okay. Deep breaths!
Thank you for this, especially the last line.
Roxane Gay says everything is going to be okay. Breathing deeply!