Afternoon Tea (8/1/19)

The Paternity Reveal

Why the Polar Bear Is an Indisputable Image of Climate Change

This story is still happening!! Target Pulls New Thread in Bikini Yarn

Which Way to the City on a Hill?

The Art of Setting Your Crime Novel in a Not-So-Distant Past

Afternoon Tea (7/31/19)

Wow, this is wild: Who Gets to Be the Next Poet Laureate of New Hampshire?

Here’s to Lizzo: Patron Saint of Radical Self-Love and Badass Flute Solos

A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?

Hahaha: Thank You for Calling the Writer Envy Helpline

Marvellous monsters

Afternoon Tea (7/11/19)

Central America’s choice: Pray for rain or migrate

‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump

This post from Dahlia Adler is great even if the situation doesn't directly apply to you: Mid-Career Querying and Other Stuff We Don’t Talk About

The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer

The Personal Kit of a British Soldier at the Start of the Asia-Pacific War

Afternoon Tea (6/6/19)

‘Archaeology of D-Day’ Aims to Preserve What the Soldiers Left Behind

This is a fascinating read about Waldorf schools in general in addition to the vaccine issue: Measles for the One Percent

Why Society Goes Easy on Rapists

Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary

Gwenda Bond's take on writing tie-ins/IP is great: Toy Stories

Afternoon Tea (6/4/19)

This is lovely and I'm so happy for Emily: The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay Are Going Hungry

This was really useful! How to Cope With Multiple-Project Paralysis

What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You

I am mildly interested in taxidermy because everyone always thinks that's what I mean when I say I'm a taxonomist, and anyway this book sounds good: Better Know an Author: Kristen Arnett

Afternoon Tea (1/31/19)

You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It.

The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

If I Hate Violence So Much, Why Do I Love Writing About It?

The science and history here is really interesting! What Rutabaga Does Better Than Anything Else

Can AI help crack the code of fusion power?

Afternoon Tea (11/2/18)

Witchy Wheys: Cast Spells and Predict the Future with Cheese

In other cheese news: What a cheesy sandwich looks like in 15 places around the world

How to Write Consent in Romance Novels

I can't WAIT to read this: These Witches Don’t Burn Cover Reveal and Exclusive Excerpt!

This is a nice interview: Figure skater Joe Johnson came out without a big coming-out moment

Afternoon Tea (10/12/18)

PART TWO IS HERE: Queens of Infamy: The Reign of Catherine de’ Medici

Slate has a new Ask a Teacher advice column and it's as great as you'd expect.

The Women Sports Pioneers You Need to Know About

Why Renée Ahdieh is bringing vampires back to YA

Heh: Congratulations! You Did Five Minutes of Writing!

Afternoon Tea (10/11/18)

Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2 Billion?

Texas Monthly crime coverage, great as always: The Cartel Next Door

La Mer makes a legendary $325 face cream. It’s now being sued for alleged false advertising.

Tour the British Countryside with These Mystery Series

13 YA Authors on How They Find (Forge, Carve Out, Sacrifice For) the Time to Write

Afternoon Tea (7/2/18)

I didn't think I wanted to read another Franzen profile, but it's by Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It

This piece about India's indigenous faiths is very interesting: Between Gods and the Government

The Story of Bog Bodies is the Story of the Criminalized

The Evolution of a Mormon Mommy Blogger

Women composers: why are so many voices still silent?

Afternoon Tea (6/28/18)

The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar

How to Write a Feminist “Dead Girl” Story

He sounds like a super fun boyfriend: The Early Years: John Adams Lists Abigail’s Faults and Abigail Replies!

I’m Not Here to Play the Suffering Minority for White Readers

Why Do Our Faces Turn Bright Red at the Exact Moment We Wish We Could Disappear?

Afternoon Tea (6/27/18)

Girls of South Sudan on gunshot wounds, hunger and hope – in pictures

A Sensitivity Read Changed My Life

How a 12 Year Old Schoolboy Set About Restoring the Magnificent Gwrych Castle

No, my book is not a ‘guilty pleasure’ just because I’m a woman

Heh: If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth

Morning Coffee (6/17/18)

How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families

ICE Detention Center Is Creating Obstacles to Ramadan Observance for Muslim Detainees, Lawyers Say

Jeff Flake’s criticism of Trump’s G7 antics is a sham

There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

Election Reformers Cheer As Maine Again Approves Ranked-Choice Voting

Also hopeful: Data Analysis: Influx of Democratic Women Could Spell the Hyde Amendment’s Demise

#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women

E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation

Some good advice in here: Just Write 500 Words

Brie Larson Promises ‘I Do Not Hate White Dudes,’ But Laments Lack of Inclusion Among Film Critics

Afternoon Tea (6/12/18)

Writing a romance novel with an autistic heroine helped Helen Hoang understand herself

Fear, loneliness, and duty — an American journalist on daily life in North Korea (I recommend her book as well!)

For Pride Month, the Medieval manuscripts blog has an interesting piece on medieval rainbows.

My Visit to the World’s First Gym for Your Face

You Love Wine Science Until it Detracts From the Magic in Your Glass

Morning Coffee (5/18/18)

Whew, time for a break for some happy Friday links.

Awesome: GLAAD to Publish LGBTQ Children’s Book Series, Starting With ‘Prince & Knight’

Whoa: While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite

She's amazing: Katie Ledecky broke her own 1500m world record by 5 SECONDS like it was nothing

Scholastic to publish original Riverdale fiction and companion books

What . . . year is it? Backstreet Boys say fans 'might get two albums this year'

THIS IS SO CUTE (but I hope she still got her couch): How Two Writers Fell in Love on the 2007 Writers Strike Picket Line

Jasmine Guillory wrote a royal wedding-inspire short story.

And here's a very cute map of the royal wedding procession.

This is fun every year: Find Out What Your Name Would Be if You Were Born Today

Storybook Cosmetics Is Launching Star Wars Makeup Brushes That Look Like Little Lightsabers

Afternoon Tea (5/14/18)

Women Intellectuals and the Art of the Withering Quip

Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?

Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip.

From Collards To Maple Syrup, How Your Identity Impacts The Food You Like

Five Remarkable Women Who Changed the Course of Maritime History

Afternoon Tea (5/11/18)

This piece by Laura Turner is incredible: Missing Hope: A Trio of Miscarriages, and What Happened After

I love her: Special Sauce: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on Not Pretending to Be Perfect

I'm not into horoscopes but this is fun: May Horoscope & Romance Reads Royally Paired For You? Yes, Please!

Lilac, the Color of Half Mourning, Doomed Hotels, and Fashionable Feelings

Fun: 50 Fictional Writers, Ranked

Afternoon Tea (5/8/18)

It's hard to describe but this essay by Alexander Chee was great and worth your time: The Changeling

The Dognapping of Kid Boots Ace

I don't agree with all the specific choices, but this is a fun exercise: 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read

Tchaikovsky’s Cure for All That Ails (the Stomach) Basically: Less vodka. Hee.

Diplomacy Noir

Afternoon Tea (5/7/18)

I LOVE this: Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit

How Do We Write Now?

Stephen Hawking’s final paper makes a hopeful case for the limits of existence

This sounds interesting: Helen Weinzweig’s Interior Feminist Espionage Novel

Searching for a Soul Mate (Must Love Sherlock Holmes)

Afternoon Tea (5/4/18)

A great piece about great books: An Extraordinary Romance: Meet The Black Women Upending The Romance Novel Industry

How to Buy Cheese at Whole Foods

My friend Katie posted this and it was extremely interesting and helpful! Especially as I'm currently writing something dance-adjacent. How Writing Dance Changed How I Wrote Relationships

The Hey Ladies book is out and this excerpt about a bridal shower is HILARIOUS, as usual.

As always, the Fug Girls have a great and very long slideshow for Will and Kate's anniversary!