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Links to check out from week of 10/22
Also, there won’t be a weekly reading list next Tuesday so I can focus on polishing November’s monthly feature. Hope everyone has a great weekend/week ahead!
Shout out to the lit it girls who are rethinking how to promote and embody their craft, via NYLON.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or distracted by the onslaught of war and destruction in the world), Britney Spears’s memoir was released on Tuesday. It’s sadder and darker than her teenage bubblegum persona could have ever suggested, per The Atlantic.
Was carbon monoxide poisoning the culprit of all those 19th century ghost stories? The Paris Review explains.
Attention, early holiday shoppers: This Rizzoli reading list doubles as a keen gift shopping list (wink wink), per V Magazine.
I can’t believe I almost missed the 30th anniversary of The X-Files! It’s probably time we reflect on the treatment and discourse around Agent Scully, via Polyesterzine.
Protect used bookstores at all costs, on Texas Monthly.
With the rise of AI and deepfakes in the art world, hyper-realistic sculpture is taking on new meaning, per T Magazine.
Historically, Donna Tartt publishes a book once every 10 or so years, meaning we’re due a newbie *hopefully* early next year. As such, I’ve been digging deep into the archives of interviews with the writer. Here in this 2014 chat, she discusses “The Goldfinch,” her most recent novel to date.
