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1 month ago | 
thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz |Sarah Mathews |Courtney Martin |Garrett Bucks
Hello friends. Community, friendships, and mutual aid have been on everyone’s lips, seemingly, since the election. I’ve been listening and learning from so many amazing writers like , , , , and ; we touched on this theme in my podcast conversation with a little while ago, too. Katharine Wilkinson: " Extraordinary, productive, magical things happen in the dark" Building community IRL is difficult when people are even more stressed out than normal and, as always, feeling pressed for time.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Kambole Campbell |Alan Sytsma |Connor Garel |Sarah Mathews
The fall concert season begins not just with the customary Beethoven and Bruckner but also with a great polychrome explosion of music from Latin America.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Sarah Mathews |Connor Garel |Anna Hezel |Lewis Gordon
The author explores the tender side of long-term partnership amid a health crisis in his best novel yet. Small Rain is out September 3 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Small Rain is out September 3 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On a muggy July afternoon in Iowa City, I went grocery shopping with the writer Garth Greenwell. We hit up the town’s 1971-founded co-op armed with a short list from his partner, the poet Luis Muñoz.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Sarah Mathews |Anna Hezel |Lewis Gordon |Charlotte Druckman
Timeless Tour starts September 14. Kaytranada is seated inside a dimly lit bistro in Montreal’s Mile End, wearing large sunglasses and a Frank Zappa T-shirt, regretting the hedonism that led to his present ruined condition. He lives in Los Angeles, but he grew up here, in a quiet borough some ten miles away, and a trip home for his mother’s birthday has also meant debaucherous reunions with childhood friends.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sarah Mathews
Continue reading More for You Continue reading More for You
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
smathewss.substack.com | Sarah Mathews
“Interregnum was the term used in ancient Rome to refer to the moment of legal and political in-betweenness that followed the death of the sovereign…The ruling order had lost its capacity to lead through consent. The masses had drifted away from traditional ideologies and toward a structure of feeling that awaited full articulation.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Lottie Hazell |Sarah Mathews |Danzy Senna
Books With Vibes So Intense, They’ll Make You Say “Yes, Chef”We’re just a few weeks out from season three of The Bear and with every new teaser trailer and promo that drops, we get more and more excited. If you’re like us, you’re itching for any content to get you ready for the kitchen stressors and shenanigans coming our way June 27th. Here’s a list of books with vibes so intense they’ll make you say “Yes, Chef” all day long — let it rip. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Sarah Mathews
Sarah Thankam Mathews is the author of , which was shortlisted for the Discover Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the National Book Award in Fiction. was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, and more. It has been published by Viking (US), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK), Ecus (Taiwan), Bollati Bolinghieri (Italy), and HarperCollins (Germany).
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Sarah Mathews |Kyle Lucia Wu |C Zhang |Lily King
According to CEO and psychologist Jessica Pryce-Jones, people spend 90,000 hours of their lifetimes at their jobs. Whatever form that profession takes, it’s inevitable that it will coincide with significant individual change. Work forces people to confront obstacles like office politics, autocratic managers, flaky colleagues, and productivity quotas, the tackling of which teaches them about who they are.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
siasat.com | Sarah Mathews
First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin NiemöllerThis quotation from Martin Niemöller’s post-war impromptu speeches is used worldwide to refer to political persecution. Its relevance cannot be doubted.
