Things I Read This Week And Liked

Friday reading roundup

The morning after the show I attended, they woke up together, ordered “four hundred thousand dollars’ ” worth of room service, and experienced a moment of gratitude over being in a hotel room. “We’re both deeply romantic about hotel rooms. We’re, like, ‘This linen!’ ”

Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism

Experienced as the exception, leaks promise a rare glimpse of unfiltered, unauthorized truth. As the rule, uncertainty will prevail. Politics documented by leaks and politics enacted through leaks are two very different things — and from the outside, the second is indistinguishable from the first.

The Media’s Risky Love Affair With Leaks

When the real world is a nightmare and the former theoretical utopia of the internet is another one, it’s necessary to imagine what other kinds of utopias might look and sound like.

Album Review: MUNA Imagine A World Ruled By Empathy

(I was allowed inside swiftly, of course, with the mere mention of my name and my outlet and the spelling of my last name and the spelling of my last name again — I don’t mean to brag.)

Drinking Wine and Dropping Snacks Near Emily Ratajkowski at InStyle’s FW Party

Whitney was the first pop star who I knew was a pop star, because I heard my mother singing her music in the house when I was a child. This was my sole marker for what a popular musician was: any musician who made my mother happy enough to lend her voice to a brief opportunity for harmony.

Whitney Houston Was Too Perfect To Stay

Mm, clicky: Grey Gardens is for sale | After years-long baboon battle at Toronto Zoo, new queen finally emerges | A new amoeba that looks like a wizard hat 🙂 | Patti vs Aretha