News of the Week/Month/Decade: MALLORY ORTBERG IS THE NEW DEAR PRUDENCE. Rejoice!! Ask her for advice!!! Submit questions for her Monday live chat here!!!!
This is the week The Toast was born anew! Let's all talk some more about how much we love the redesign. And if you have yet to fall down the rabbit hole reading all the nerdy technical deets / listening to the related podcast, I can vouch that it's a good way to spend your afternoon.
Our quest to transform The Toast into a Hamilton fanpage continued apace this week with Nicole's ode to Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kendra James' reflection on the show's themes and timeliness. How lucky we are to be alive right now!
A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping
I talked to Arissa Oh, American historian and Friend of The Toast, about the history of Korean adoption and what it can teach us about the rise and…
Happy Friday, Toast! Last night I had a lot of feelings and cookie dough before bed and dreamed that Lin-Manuel Miranda was going to run for President and fix all our problems. I was pretty disappointed when I woke up and remembered who's actually running. It's thrown my whole day off. This week, Mallory rewrote the fairy tale The Six Swans, and it was lovely. Leaving a cocktail party early to eat some bison and other…
Hello, Toasties, how are you all this Friday? I'm recovering from a migraine, which sucks. I hear caffeine is good for headaches, though, so I've been drinking coffee and eating chocolate muffins all day; my health is very important to me. This week we were very proud to publish this #longread by Colleen Hele, Naomi Sayers, and Jessica Wood on what's missing from the conversation around missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. SEPTEMBER DAD…
I am so very, very tired today, Toasties. I was up late helping my husband roll grape leaves for his department potluck today (for whatever reason, every single work potluck he's ever had has been a 'bring traditional family foods' party, which in my own case would mean day-old pizza or a box cake frosted with Cool Whip, but in his invariably means the only Lebanese dish he really knows how to make: grape leaves). We…
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! Siobhan Phillips wrote this terrific essay for us on women and the history of gin. Mallory's…
Hi Toasties! Toast Points will be short and sweet this week, because I have to go meet my kids' teachers this afternoon. (oh thank you Lord Jesus the end of the summer is nigh, HIGH-FIVE ME ONE AND ALL) This week, we got to read Texts from H.P. Lovecraft. Our beloved Green Gables got the Great House Therapy treatment. Christienna Fryar wrote about her years as a competitive swimmer and the need for…
This week, Mallory launched the Convert Series with this great interview of poet and publicist Kima Jones, who converted to Islam when she was a teenager: I spent my eighth grade summer, the summer before high school, away from my home with my father. We would talk long into the night about God, but especially the Trinity and especially the Holy Spirit. We were very close, very very close, and he gave me books to…
This week brought us the "If so-and-so were your boyfriend" entry The Toast's faithful legion of Harry Potter fans were waiting for. (Well, truthfully, I think you're probably all waiting for If Emma Watson Were Your Girlfriend, but this will do for a start.) ENGORGIO.
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"What have you taught him about the value of his own labor? Nothing": Ayn Rand's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Hi Toasties, how are you this Friday afternoon? I have just acquired three new books, lots of good beer, and a shoe cabinet the size of Rhode Island, so I cannot complain.
