Kelsey McKinney

1 week ago | buttondown.com | Kelsey McKinney

As the dowager queen, it is my duty to alert you that NORMAL GOSSIP premiered its brand new season last week. I’m so excited to see what Rachelle & Se’era do with this season, and it is such a fuckin’ treat to actually get to listen to the episodes like everyone else!Last week, my own broken brain reminded me of Jo Ann Beard’s 1996 essay “The Fourth State of Matter” about her dog dying and a shooting she missed because of it.

2 weeks ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

In late February, I caught wind of a salacious rumor involving students at Ole Miss. Obviously, since I do not make a habit of keeping apprised of the sex lives of college students, it came to my attention because it had already garnered a lot of attention online. The rumor was spreading via a photo of a paragraph of text from someone’s Snapchat DMs that had gone viral on YikYak, a social media app primarily used by students.

4 weeks ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

In 2018, I went to Pompeii. I did not particularly want to go to Pompeii, but we were on vacation in Italy, and my partner wanted to go, and so I obliged. We could eat in Naples, I reasoned. Then even if I did not have fun in the hot sun amongst the rocks and ruins of an ancient town, I would still be happy. But I was wrong; I enjoyed it. How do you not fawn over a perfectly preserved mosaic floor laid carefully in the entryway to a opulent home almost two thousand years ago?

1 month ago | airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Kelsey McKinney

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 Edited by Joanna Cannon, with Caroline Campbell and Stephan Wolohojian Those who missed this remarkable exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this past winter can still catch it at London’s National Gallery this spring. If you can’t make it there (and even if you can), this sumptuous book should be in your home since it amply illustrates the wonders of a city’s art that shaped European art for centuries to come.

1 month ago | defector.com | Kelsey McKinney

Yesterday, the President of the United States filmed an advertisement for Tesla on the driveway of the White House. They might as well have erected a ginormous flag and one of those balloon men that flop around, because the South Lawn is a car dealership now. Maybe they could have unfurled a sign that read "Deals Deals Deals!"Except there were no deals. Instead, there was a line of five Teslas looking like shiny garbage.