icebergmama made this picture for me, what did the rest of you accomplish?
“Why I Only Read Books By Women in 2013”
I am here to talk about Six By Sondheim, and I hope you are too. I cried like a baaaaaaby.
Twitter totally messed up by changing their block function, which I only used once for this guy who got into a fight with me about Napoleon Bonaparte’s height (he was a perfectly normal size! it’s a pouce/inch difference!) and then turned out to be a white supremacist, though why that has anything to do with Napoleon I will never know.
Sarah Miller’s “Positive Book Reviews” for The New Yorker:
“Crime and Punishment,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Crime and Punishment” takes place in St. Petersburg. Right off the bat, having the novel set here makes you feel like you can do anything, because, in 1919, St. Petersburg was re-named Leningrad, but in 1991 it was re-named St. Petersburg, which was really a glorious comeback.
Sarah Robles, the American weightlifter, has been suspended from professional competition for two years because she tested positive for…the drug she takes for her PCOS.
Jesus, Eve Ensler.
Billy Eichner and Amy Poehler yell Christmas carols at strangers.
Colin Wilson has died. I loved all his freaky books on the occult when I was younger (and, probably, now; they were just parental bookshelf thefts then.)
How committed are you to reading Jolie Kerr’s book before other people?
The GIF guide to getting paid.
Nicole is an Editor of The Toast.