Welcome back, everyone! How are we all doing?
I can’t stop thinking about this Smitten Kitchen recipe for Pizza Beans. We ate almost all of it in one go and have been mourning the loss of leftovers. Do y’all have any recent recipes that you’re loving?
I’m also hoping we’re slowly sliding into fall soon in New England. I’m a sucker for “soup season” and big, oversized sweaters.
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Sarah: I was the guest this past week on She Wore Black podcast talking about ‘romantasy’ and how it’s a new term for a flavor of romance we’ve been enjoying for a long time.
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For The X-Files‘ 30th anniversary, Rolling Stone ranked every episode. How do you feel about the rankings? I’ve also convinced my partner to make The X-Files our new marathon-watch show!
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Piggy-backing on a previous links, where we talked about Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s thoughts on Bama Rush, scholar Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd is on the Unladylike podcast to talk about Southern sorority history and “competitive femininity.”
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If you want queer smut recs, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore has you covered on Instagram!
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
The relentless heat here in Virginia has finally relented, and a series of fairly spectacular thunderstorms broke up our drought so I’ve stopped worrying about all my young trees dying. I’m not usually a fan of autumn at all as the dark closing in on both ends of the day tends to GET to me, but I am very, very over hot summer at this point.
I’m just gone on a burst of horror/thriller reading (Kelly Barnhill’s CRANE WIFE, Stephen King’s HOLLY, Dennis LeHane’s SMALL MERCIES, and Victor Lavalle’s LONE WOMEN), all of which could probably be lumped together under the category of ‘satisfyingly murderous women’. SMALL MERCIES was probably one of the best reads of the year for me, and Lavalle’s LONE WOMEN surprised and delighted me so much by the ending that I’m buying copies for Christmas gifts. I just finished up Rayburne’s KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE (enjoyable, if a bit tonally odd) and now I should probably switch up genres before my husband notices and gets mildly concerned.