#15: Hot links III
Andrew Scott wears jumpers, library eroticism, career hot streaks
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Reading + watching
Dave (millennial Curb Your Enthusiasm). I encourage you to push past the first two episodes, after which it evolves into an entirely different show: funny/sad, strange, self-aware.
Turns out that reading about how people organise their libraries really does it for me.
Andrew Scott wears jumpers and talks to Ben Whishaw about queerness, acting and Tom Ripley.
Alice Hattrick on gender, chronic illness and long Covid: “The gendered nature of our illness is mirrored in the kinds of work that we end up doing around our own illnesses, but also around our own domestic activity. Chronic illness is gendered feminine because you end up being at home all the time.” Hattrick’s book, Ill Feelings, is excellent.
An exploration of being off social media. I’ve not been on Instagram this year, and much of this resonated. I remain pathetically addicted to Twitter.
Hot streaks in your career don’t happen by accident. “All success—career success, corporate thriving, national flourishing—requires that we pay close attention to the interplay between scouting new ideas and pumping established wells”. I love any confirmation bias that being a generalist is great.
There’s such wisdom in this interview with Min Jin Lee: “Enduring requires community, collectivism, organization, and it also requires fun. We have to have some fun while we’re together. And it’s OK to prefer each other now and then. My goal isn’t to have everything that a rich white man has. It’s not. Not even close. What I want is to be fully me, with everything I am, and not to be limited.”
Trigger warning: child abuse. Trauma is a ghost, who knew. Trauma, memory, reality, writing.
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Eating
Chinese-style braised beef stew with mashed parsnips, smacked cucumbers and pickled red onion. Spiced carrot and squash soup topped with garlicky kale and shrimp chilli oil. Vietnamese noodles via Deliveroo. It’s Savoy cabbage season in my veg bag, so: many pastas with cabbage, anchovy, garlic, lemon; cabbage stir fries; colcannon, made for my friend Liv. A seafood platter, where I tried whelk for the first time.
Mood
