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Links from week of 12/17/23 to check out

Hi all, this will be the last link round-up of the year. I hope everyone has some restful plans ahead full of reading, sleeping, and dreaming.

1. Feast your eyes on the fashion candy in the new series trailer for Cristóbal Balenciaga, coming to Disney+ on January 19.

2. If you click on any link in this round up, please let it be this feature on girlhood in the Ozempic era, per The Cut.

3. Making a new year’s resolution to read more classics? Here’s where to start with Henry James, per NYTBooks.

4. While most of the “best of” year-end books featured all the expected players (Zadie Smith, Paul Murray, Colson Whitehead), this one refreshingly suggests emerging novelists and small press sweethearts, via i-D.

   

   Gaia Double Breasted Coat, $495, Frankie’s Shop

5. Welp, the pendulum has finally swung from everything shrunken to everything oversized. This coat should be in just about everyone’s closet this winter.

6. 👀 These were the most checked out library books in Manhattan and Brooklyn this year, via TimeOut.

7. The Goodreads fury debate is still going strong. For an inside baseball view on how Goodreads can mess with debut and minority authors, check out this post on

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8. With books like “Fourth Wing” storming BookTok and bookshops alike, romantasy dominated literature this year, on Dazed.

9. Is there a place that’s essentially summer camp for groundbreaking authors? Two words: Santa Maddalena. On NYT.