Afternoon Tea (7/12/19)

This is RIVETING: New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered.

Whoa: An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness

Mermaids Have Always Been Black

10 Black Princess Books to Celebrate Halle Bailey as Ariel

Jerome and the lion

Afternoon Tea (4/22/19)

I don't love this headline, but the piece provided very good context and updates: The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents.

Behind the New, Gloriously Queer Emily Dickinson Movie

I love this title: Killer Trees of the Revolution

Why It’s Time to Move Millennials Into Leadership

Fairytales on trial: the Good and the Beautiful in early Soviet children’s literature

Afternoon Tea (4/10/19)

Muffet McGraw Says She Won’t Hire a Man on Her Coaching Staff. Let Her Tell You Why.

Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are designed to pave the way for women’s accomplishments

Unraveling Wikipedia’s Mystery over Women’s History

The Stories Of Black Women In The Military Need To Be Told In Books

This fairy tale series is interesting: The Evil Stepmother

Afternoon Tea (10/9/18)

This is the most delightful thing I have ever read: Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check

These Stories Are Ours, Too: Writing Black Characters into Fairy Tales

Kate Atkinson Loves a Good Secret (I highly recommend her new book.)

A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes

Here's some fun medieval manuscript history in honor of the new Doctor: A female doctor

Afternoon Tea (5/30/18)

The Cultural Vandalism of Jeffrey Tambor

The Lost Maidens of Berlin

“Once Upon a Time” and Other Formulaic Folktale Flourishes

The Factory That Oreos Built

12 Mystery Novels for Fans of Literary Fiction

Afternoon Tea (5/15/18)

This whole thing is so fascinating: Body Con Job: Miquela Sousa has over 1 million followers on Instagram and was recently hacked by a Trump troll. But she isn’t real.

And this was way more dramatic than I expected: How the Author of ‘Madeline’ Created His Most Famous Character

The Curse of Cortés

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

From the NYPL: A List Fit for a Royal Wedding

Afternoon Tea (3/29/18)

This is an essential read about Being A Woman On The Internet: Who Does She Think She Is?

How Portraiture Gave Rise to the Glamour of Guns

The Original Little Mermaid: On Kay Nielsen, Disney, and the sanitization of the modern fairy tale.

The Birth of the Cuban-American Mob

Interesting: One of the best Sherlock portrayals came from the Soviet Union

Afternoon Tea (6/16/17)

If you'd like a nice juicy read for your Friday afternoon, don't miss Weddings of the 0.01 Percent. (Now I want to read a novel about super fancy wedding planners.)

Mallory Ortberg's Internet

Bias, She Wrote: The Gender Balance of The New York Times Best Seller list

This is so interesting: The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres

The Spy Who Became England’s First Successful Female Writer

Morning Coffee (1/12/16)

Thanks to my newest Patreon patron, Jack! That puts me over halfway to my first goal. (I realized Patreon only shows the next goal, not the whole list; maybe I'll put them in a post here so you guys can see what I've set up?)

It's Charles Perrault's birthday and the fairy tale Google doodles are ADORABLE.

Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo. Which one of them got played?

This is a great, juicy overview: One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015

The Nation He Built is a readable, comprehensive overview of President Obama's domestic policy achievements.

I have this scar! (The "This is something they'll live with for the rest of their lives" quote is interesting because that's CLEARLY TRUE and yet it's sort of surprising how little I think about it at this point. Though wait, I DID describe it to a friend last week, so maybe it comes up more than I think it does.)

What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism

Insane read of the day: The Celebrity Surgeon Who Used Love, Money, and the Pope to Scam an NBC News Producer

As someone who spent the first few seasons of Gossip Girl telling anyone who would listen about the COMPLEX LITERARY PARALLELS but was disappointed in it by the end, I really enjoyed this: Gossip Girl went from being in on the joke to being the punchline (And as I read it I was astonished at how many of their crazy plotlines I had blocked out of my brain. Remember the Hilary Duff threesome???)

I appreciate that this piece on mail-order brides mentions Sarah, Plain and Tall.

Men Who Have Finally ‘Found Their Sound’ In Western Art History

Morning Coffee (3/18/15)

Awesome: Oregon will be the first state to automatically register voters

You should absolutely read this amazing piece my friend Todd wrote about being adopted.

This is great: UK Sunday paper won't review books marketed "to exclude either sex"

A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella

4 historical heroes who loved charts

Now I wish I could read the B.Y. Times books.

The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of ‘My Immortal,’ the World’s Worst Fanfiction Story

Awwww.

Morning Coffee (3/14/13)

Google Reader is going away. Yes, now is the time to panic. So far, the best replacement I've found is The Old Reader, but I'll keep you updated. Read about migration and their future plans here.

And we have a new pope! Here's a profile of the man who would become Pope Francis.

Today in shows you should be watching: The Killing season two is now on Netflix, and previous seasons of The Good Wife have made it to Amazon Prime and will be on Hulu Plus in the fall.

Clear your calendars, Comcast customers: TV Catch-Up Week is coming.

Polaroid and Instagram are teaming up.

This piece about Bob Woodward's John Belushi book is fascinating.

A dark, live-action Beauty and the Beast? Yes, please.

Big Breaks for Blowjobs: The Dark Underbelly of the Miss USA Pageant