issue twenty-seven

resuming with a repose + recommended reading (see what i did there)

Hi Substack family! First, my apologies for leaving you high and dry for a few weeks. Life happens, school happens, and it is all happening all at once. We get it. I’m putting pressure on myself to remain more consistent.

In the meantime, I’ve been working + reading + writing! I plan to give y’all a podcast review next week for Passenger List, which I recently finished literally a year after the last episode dropped. I have thoughts and I can’t wait for you to hear them; until then, here are some of my favorite articles of the last semester and a half.

• A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing

• I Love Sally Rooney’s Novels But They Aren’t Written For Me

• After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

• the tiny white people in our heads

• We Are Not Ready

• “Ultimately, we Black women are singing from the same hymnal, whether we are talking about food, love, our mothers, or the church”: An Interview with Deesha Philyaw

• This Fall, Dress Like a “Cool Shrink”

• Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics

• A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

• On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

• Rebecca Carroll Is Still ‘Surviving the White Gaze’

• Jocelyn Nicole Johnson talks home, identity, and 'My Monticello'

• Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankine

• The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks

• Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever

• ENJOY OBVIOUSLY FAKE ADVICE-COLUMN LETTERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE: CATHARSIS

• My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers

• The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café

• How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

• Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness

• TARTT FOR TARTT’S SAKE: THE SECRET HISTORY AT 30

• The Secret Genius of Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story

• My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

•  What Happened at The Root

• When Did Reading Become a Competitive Sport

• Gabble Like a Thing Most Brutish

• Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation

• I Was Surrounded by “Final Girls” in School, Knowing I’d Never Be One

• What the Haunting ‘Inner Passage’ Represented to the Enslaved

• When Black Excellence Isn’t Enough

I love you, and I’ll see you on Sunday!

my fit + my lemonade