“Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.” Judith Thurman writes for The New Yorker about Women in Clothes and her experiences in thrift stores and clothing swaps. For more about the connections between feminism, dressing and literature, check out Rachel Signer‘s Millions review of the same anthology.
“In a communal dressing room”
Reading with the Jetsons
Ever dreamt of using a sophisticated library where robots fetch your books for you? Well, you bespectacled futurist, guess what. (h/t The Paris Review)
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Point Scoring
Wordpocalypse
In the beginning, God died, and it was bad. Then the pun died too, and despair came over the people.
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Gandalf Set Up the Fireworks
The Paris Review starts the year off right with a post on Tolkien’s birthday.
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Sequoia Nagamatsu’s Dystopian Debut Is a Must-Read for the New Year
Sequioa Nagamatsu discusses his much-awaited debut novel about people living in a future beset by the Arctic Plague.
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