Guys, it’s too sizzling. The ‘maintain my beer’ vitality of August after July was declared the most well liked month within the historical past of the planet is admirable, however horrible. It’s too sizzling to drive to TJ Maxx and purchase a pumpkin scented candle. And even when I did, it’s too sizzling to have a candle burning in my home. Please, a stay hearth? In a home the place I have already got to shut all of the curtains and run a fan in each room? Completely not. And what about my seasonal re-watch of The Gilmore Ladies? That’s to be finished in comfortable pjs beneath a blanket, not wiping away boob sweat in a rayon caftan while fanning myself with a Dell Applied sciences hand fan somebody gave me at Satisfaction.
Wherever these hyperlinks discover out at this time, I hope you’re staying cool.
Xo,
Kim
• Silver lining: it’s nonetheless heat sufficient to go tenting, ideally by a physique of water you’ll be able to dunk in a number of instances a day. For those who’re venturing out, clearly you’re taking Camp Pleasure with you, since you’re good AND it’s on sale for 15% off. Use code JOYSCOUT15 and stay your greatest life (with loads of bug spray). Personally, I feel we’d like iron-on “Pleasure Scout” badges, however that’s simply me. (Camp Pleasure)
• Sam Sanders is one in every of my favourite podcasters and Tressie McMillan Cottom is one in every of my favourite – effectively, all the things. Sam had Tressie on his Vulture podcast Into It to speak nation music and race. It’s an amazing dialog. (Apple Podcasts)
• When you’re downloading episodes of Into It, go forward and hearken to the one on Lizzo, too. ICYMI: return and browse what Abby mentioned concerning the lawsuit in opposition to Lizzo. After which watch this TikTok. (Apple Podcasts, Pleasure the Baker)
• Talking of Abby, she lovingly linked to my Beyoncé assessment in her publish. Since then, a younger dancer and choreographer named O’Shae Sibley was stabbed to loss of life in Brooklyn whereas he was listening to Renaissance and vogueing at a fuel station. Zach Stafford wrote about it for MSNBC. (Nashville Scene)
• I’m obsessive about this quote from The New York Occasions Journal story on feminine rappers: “We’re making the individuals transfer. Males overlook that ladies like them. You understand? All people wanna speak about gang, gang, gang. Ladies such as you, good day? Take a second to be horny! Hi there? Take your shirt off! The boys is forgetting to take their shirts off, however the girlies always remember.” (NYT Present Hyperlink)
• I met Jenn Shapland at Parnassus when she was on tour for her first ebook, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, which is one in every of my favourite memoirs. Jenn has a brand new ebook out now referred to as, Skinny Pores and skin, and I’m dying to learn it. To get a style of Jenn’s writing, right here’s a current story she wrote for the NY Occasions on water aerobics. (Bookshop.org, NYT Present Hyperlink)
• For those who have been on Twitter whereas it was nonetheless considerably enjoyable and practical, then it’s possible you’ll bear in mind R. Eric Thomas, who went viral for his hilarious “Eric Reads the Information” day by day column for Elle. He was in Nashville lately to have a good time his new ebook, Congratulations, the Finest Is Over!, and I used to be in a position to meet him. Spoiler alert: he’s a delight. (Bookshop.org)
• WaPo has a sequence the place they ask writers to mirror on what it’s prefer to be again exterior — if they’re — and the way the pandemic modified them. Danté Stewart wrote the latest column about his native espresso store. Stewart writes, “I feel how I occupied this identical spot earlier than the pandemic cleared us out, how from this sofa I’d learn the phrases: “Coronavirus may also trigger a loneliness epidemic.” How throughout the pandemic, world occasions and devastating loneliness certainly broke so many people, however how, to our shock, a few of us bent again within the different route to face upright once more.” Learn the entire thing right here. (Bookshop.org)
• I’m educating my social media for writers class once more. It’s in-person, so that is solely of use to you if you will get to Nashville, however should you’re native, I’d like to see you there. (The Porch)
• Talking of issues you’ll be able to solely do in Nashville, I’ll be in coversation with Lindsay Lynch on Aug. 31 concerning the means of publishing her debut novel, Do Inform. That is a part of the Birthing the E book sequence for The Porch. It’s free!
• An argument for downward dealing with cowboy. (TikTok)
