Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A few weeks ago, in a post about Taylor Swift’s breakup with DJ Calvin Harris, the inimitable celebrity-gossip blogger Lainey Lui asked an important question: “Is TMZ now officially the gossip voice for the men’s rights movement?” Based on the notorious online tabloid’s incredibly one-sided, or male-sided, coverage of celeb breakups in the last two…
A blogger and her husband Photo: James Devaney/Getty Images On Tuesday, Jennifer Aniston took to the Huffington Post to write a scathing article that addressed her recent pregnancy rumors, as well as general tabloid treatment of female celebrities. On Wednesday, as the natural order of the universe dictates, her…
Photo via Calvin Harris’s Instagram Famous singer Taylor Swift and Scottish man Calvin Harris are two people who used to be in a romantic relationship. Their relationship ceased at the start of last month. When romantic relationships come to an end, there is often animosity between the two once-involved parties and, in the case of…
Actress Holly Hunter and former Sen. Birch Bayh attend a news conference defending Title IX in 2003 on Capitol Hill in Washington.Linda Spillers/Getty Images In a series of jarring tweets Wednesday afternoon, blogger and co-editor of the tech site Boing Boing Xeni Jardin alleged that former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, the father of current…
Last week, we previewed 93 works of fiction due out in the second half of 2016. Today, we follow up with 44 nonfiction titles coming out in the next six months, ranging from a new rock memoir by Bruce Springsteen to a biography of one our country’s most underrated writers, Shirley Jackson, by critic Ruth Franklin….
It happened to me.Chris Helgren/Reuters I didn’t want to believe in the power of Pokémon Go. I grew up in a Nintendo household, playing hours of Zelda and Earthbound and GoldenEye; I spent my tween years carrying around a Game Boy on which I alternated between the red and blue versions of Pokémon, conspiring…
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When he’s choosing your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage, trying to decide whether Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” (jumpman, jumpman, jumpman) has jumped the shark. Or sometimes he’s at home in his one-bedroom apartment on the border of West Hollywood and…
We never know what will become of our ideas when we release them into the world. I learned this in a new way, when one of my tweets about Isis and Islam went viral on “Muslim Twitter”. The volume of response from Muslim men and women around the world (35,000 retweets and counting) isn’t what’s…
In the great saga that is the media’s obsession with Renée Zellweger’s face, there are some things that should just be general knowledge by now. Specifically, if Zellweger got work done to her face, it’s a reflection of an industry and society that makes women feel like monsters for being over the age of 25….