Weekend links, February 4
I hope your weekend is peaceful and good. It’s very, very cold here, and it’s hard to complain because January was absurdly warm in New York, and that’s scary!
Five links for your weekend
Watch: I wrote about Godland, so I’m gonna suggest you go look that one up.
Or watch: I just realized my favorite movie of 2021, Bergman Island, is now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
Read: I really enjoyed Dan Kois’s novel Vintage Contemporaries, which captured a New York I remember and the one right before it, too. (More on that book next week!)
Also read: Kois wrote about the artist who designed covers for the Vintage Contemporaries novels, who sort of makes a cameo in the book. A fun read.
Also also read: Okay, I confess I haven’t read this Alex Ross piece about Hildegard of Bingen, but how could that not be great? I will be reading it this weekend.
What I’ve been up to
I wrote about l’Affaire Riseborough, aka the kerfuffle around Andrea Riseborough’s unexpected Oscar nomination, and why it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Oscars’ messed-up nomination system.
Wrote about my favorite movies from Sundance!
And separately wrote about two of my very favorite movies from Sundance, and the unexpected things they have to say in an age where governments at home and abroad are actively working to suppress history and collective memory.
While we are here, may I once again plug my book Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women?
Enjoyed this? If you’re feeling it, I won’t object if you buy me a cup of coffee. Writers need fuel.