This was the week that would not stop happening. I hope you are all safe and well and supporting any and all police-reform strategies in your communities.

ON THE PLUS SIDE, if you are in LA, please come to The Last Bookstore tonight at 7:30, where you will see Roxane Gay and self and various other Bad Feminists reading up a storm.

There were periodic updates from Ferguson, Missouri, each one more horrifying and routine than the last. A lot of people there were incredibly brave. It’s good not to look away.

Somewhere in publishing, a designer is weeping softly

I finally fixed the only flaw in The Devil Wears Prada using Ayn Rand

Sulagna Misra taught us a lot about history through the careful deployment of Captain America-themed Tumblrs

what if a malt shop was sinister

I cannot tell you how much I love it when Nicole gets crisp to someone who deserves it in the comments

Long-distance marriages! I didn’t know they existed. Now I do. And I will never ask anyone in them an intrusive question.

This review of Like No Other was wonderful and I think it got a bit lost in the shuffle due to this week’s newsworthiness. Worth checking out and discussing, if you didn’t get the chance the first time around.

OKAY EVERYBODY COME TO LA AND SAY HI TO ME TONIGHT