Just Good Shit: 12.20.20
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I’m back with the penultimate newsletter of 2020! You’ll get one more from me this year, FYI, but it might not come next Sunday night (because I may or may not get around to putting together all of my favorites from this year by this time next week).
For now, here’s what I’ve been up to…
On the blog
There’s also a new episode of the pod this week. And I was thrilled to guest-host this week’s episode of NPR’s Life Kit! I talked to Dr. Andrea Bonior about getting through the holidays this year.
Writing
Reading
‘I Trust Science,’ Says Nurse Who Is First to Get Vaccine in U.S., NYT.
My Mommies and Me, JewishCurrents.
My Hell on a Cargo Ship I Could Never Leave Because of COVID, Slate.
Weddings to Die For, NY Mag.
(Also read the original Texas Monthly story!)
How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart, Slate.
Kids Are Watching Pornography. Here’s How to Talk About It., NYT.
Who Can Guess What Jeffrey Toobin Did Wrong? (Not So Fast, Malcolm Gladwell), Defector.
”Secondly, when you decide to open your pants and masturbate in the middle of a work meeting (note: never do this), that super duper is not a ‘private’ moment. That is the middle of a work meeting, and somebody has decided to haul their sex junk out and fiddle with it in the middle of the work meeting.”
The legal titan and the ‘Real Housewife’: The rise and fall of Tom Girardi and Erika Jayne, LA Times.
What’s It Like to Be Directed By Nancy Meyers?, Vulture.
I Got High and Made Croissants Like Meryl Streep, Vulture.
Crying into a white cashmere throw, LaineyGossip.
Spot-on analysis of the Hallie Meyers-Shyer mess.
An Oral History of the World’s Biggest Coupon, NYT.
The Prom Isn’t the Gift to Queer Teens It Thinks It Is, Vulture.
James Corden Should Have Been Banned from The Prom, Vanity Fair.
Beeswax tapers FAQ, Reading My Tea Leaves.
Ways to Create Holiday Magic, Shutterbean.
Have a lovely night and a very cozy week! 🎅🏽
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