Tell me what to do

Another 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 in the books. In case you missed it, we published flash fiction about mistaken identities, smoking angels, and swallowing the mouse. We’re woefully behind on sharing our reading list, so here's an extra long list of links for your weekend. — Daisy Alioto

PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

• “The last employee Eric encounters on his way out of Pierpoint’s offices is an elderly Asian American janitor.” Cat Zhang on Industry’s Eric Tao (The Cut)

• For fans of Among the Thugs, a new podcast on football hooliganism. (Spotify) 

• A new single from 2hollis. (Pitchfork)

• Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone are back with another season of Reading Writers (Apple Podcasts)

• “And what is the point of a film studio that quashes movies instead of releasing them? Are Hollywood studios engines for creativity, or merely hedge funds with their own associated theme parks?” Zach Schonfeld in The Guardian

• Miu Miu did something cool with QR codes.

• You can already Shazam people. (404 Media)

• “What would it mean to refuse to meet the mid work on its own terrain?” Mitch Therieau asks. (Mid Theory Collective)

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• Watch the bidding war for David Hockney’s ‘L'Arbois, Sainte-Maxine’ (Sotheby’s) 

• “The main goal is to produce the highest-­quality drinking glasses on the planet, ones made with such elegance and artistry they become collectible artworks.” The heir to Laguna B. (Town&Country)

• “At minimum, Genesis has shaped basic claims about human purpose, obligation and behaviour for more than two millennia.” James Butler on Marilynne Robinson (LRB)

• How Irish butter took over the world. (Vittles)

• “That is not pornography, it is a famous prayer. I’m too stupid, Daddy, please tell me what to do. Our Father who art in heaven, tell me what to do.” (The Paris Review)

• The Aaron Swartz Statue Project 

• “I think if you gave me a million dollars to be an adolescent anywhere else in the world, I would turn it down. I would just be bored.” Atlanta’s own Zack Fox. (W Mag)

• All is NOT well in the Snoopy Fan Account community. (Rolling Stone)

• A longform Yelp review of Lana Del Rey's husband's airboat tour. (Never Hungover)

• “Literature’s beef with video games, nay, technology, isn’t anything new.” A formally inventive review of a formally boring anthology of video game essays. (CRB)

FACT

News of the world.

• An illustrated guide to the way religious believers are using new technologies. (Rest of World)

• “Today, over 300,000 kids under 18 are estimated to have an opioid-use disorder.” (ProPublica)

• The View from Besieged Beirut (Boston Review) 

• America Needs an Energy Policy for AI (Heatmap)

• All eyes on the Black dandy. (The Met)

• The Chippendales are unionizing. (In These Times)

FICTION

Untruth and beauty.

• “She would leave him and tell her friends about the idiot she’d once dated who mutilated his testicles falling through a floor on Halloween.” Evan Grillon in Hobart

• “Grackles on a telephone wire are scary because they are one growing row of holes in the universe.” A poem in The Baffler

• For fans of Convenience Store Woman: “Granta has snapped up Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.” (The Bookseller)

• “The Thirty-Two Fouettes” by Dwight Curtis is the best story I have read all year. Will some enterprising agent or editor please catch this shooting star??! (The Wrath-Bearing Tree) 💫💫💫

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