If you enjoyed our own Lady Pickpockets of the Barbary Coast, you’ll love Emma Donoghue’s new novel, Frog Music, which takes its plot from some of the events in question!
Pulitzer discussion time!
Since I’ve recommended the two first pieces in The Archipelago, a new Medium collection, I thought I’d tell you that the creator, Jess Zimmerman, is looking for contributors! You can email archipelago.pitches at gmail with pieces (reported or essays) on “identity, community, finding or creating or rejecting groups, and the search for belonging.” She’s paying.
A Trader Joe’s is opening 13 minutes from my house (8 minutes from my gym), because Utah is GETTING IT TOGETHER:
Like the Salt Lake City store, the new Cottonwood Heights Trader Joe’s will not sell one of the company’s staple products of other national locations, the famous $2.50 “Two-Buck Chuck” bottles of wine (under the Charles Shaw label) or any other wine and liquor. Due to state liquor laws, Utah grocery stores cannot sell spirits and wine.
…somewhat.
John Leavitt wisely emailed me this:
Anne Helen Petersen on her time as a “liberal arts nanny”:
Usually, the people who hire liberal arts nannies don’t even really want nannies, or at least don’t like the idea of being the kinds of people who hire a nanny. They want to hire someone with the looks, behavior, and cultural capital they themselves had a decade before. Someone, in other words, to make them feel less weird, and less privileged, about engaging in their own personal service economy.
Omigod, the US Airways thing! WHAT. I wasn’t on Twitter at the time, and arrived to people literally screaming and crying with laughter.
Look at me, also recommending the third piece in that Medium collection! THEY ARE ALL TOASTIES.
No, no. NO. No no no. Fascinating. But NO.
