I had the best time chatting with Celeste Ng about, well, everything. One more time: if you’ve not yet read Everything I Never Told You, I hope you do, and then I hope you talk to me about it. That novel meant so much to me, and it was a joy to get to talk with Celeste for The Toast!

Siobhan Phillips wrote this terrific essay for us on women and the history of gin.

Mallory’s convert interview series continued with Aadita Chaudhury.

Abbey Fenbert and her friend watched the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, and it got very real. Abbey also somehow acquired the transcript from the pitch meeting for Jeopardy!

“O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to Squaresville.”

My friend and fellow adoptee Matthew Salesses (whose novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, came out this week) on what it means to be different.

Poirot, but without the murder.

Are you living in an Elena Ferrante novel?

Until today I’d really never thought about whether or not Leonardo DiCaprio calls his old Growing Pains costars and leaves them rambling voicemails, but I’m now convinced he does.

“If Alexander Siddig were your boyfriend, you’d refer to that one thing he does as the ‘Cardassian neck trick.'”