Rec. #845: List #93 -- PAY Ten Women* and Keep It Going, part 5

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Because thanking women is nice, but paying them is better!

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Who: Jia Tolentino, staff writer for The New Yorker.

New book: Trick Mirror

Learn more: On Twitter @jiatolentino. Her website is https://jia.blog/.

Who: Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut.

New and seminal books: Good and Mad, All the Single Ladies

Learn more: On Twitter @rtraister. Her website is http://www.rebeccatraister.com/.








Connection to previous Wreckage: Tolentino and Traister were both part of List #66: Public Voices to Pay Attention To.

Rec. #844: List #93 -- PAY Ten Women* and Keep It Going, part 4

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Because thanking women is nice, but paying them is better!


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Who: Ijeoma Oluo, one of the most influential people in Seattle.

Recent and upcoming books: So You Want to Talk About Race, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Learn more: On Twitter @IjeomaOluo. Her website is http://www.ijeomaoluo.com/.

Who: Alexandra Petri, columnist for The Washington Post.

Upcoming book: Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

Learn more: On Twitter @petridishes. See her work for The Washington Post at https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri/.






Connections to previous Wreckage: Oluo and Petri were both part of List #66: Public Voices to Pay Attention To.


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Rec. #843: List #93 -- PAY Ten Women* and Keep It Going, part 3

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Who: Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor of sociology.

Recent books: Lower Ed, Thick: And Other Essays (National Book Award Finalist)

Learn more: On Twitter @tressiemcphd. Her website is https://tressiemc.com/.

Who: Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker.

Recent book: I Like to Watch

Learn more: On Twitter @emilynussbaum. Her website is https://www.emilynussbaum.com/.




Connection to previous Wreckage: McMillan Cottom and Nussbaum were both part of List #66: Public Voices to Pay Attention To.


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Rec. #842: List #93 -- PAY Ten Women* and Keep It Going, part 2

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Who: Sarah Kendzior, journalist and expert on authoritarian states.

Recent and upcoming books: The View from Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight

Learn more: On Twitter @sarahkendzior. Her website is https://sarahkendzior.com/.

Who: Talia Lavin, journalist and former fact-checker for The New Yorker.

Upcoming book: Culture Warlords

Learn more: On Twitter @chick_in_kiev. Her Patreon is https://www.patreon.com/talialavin.




Connections to previous Wreckage: Kendzior and Lavin were both part of List #66: Public Voices to Pay Attention To.


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Rec. #841: List #93 -- PAY Ten Women* and Keep It Going, part 1

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Because thanking women is nice, but paying them is better!

Who: Eve Ewing, Chicago Renaissance woman.

Newest books: Ironheart, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Learn more: On Twitter @eveewing. Her website is https://eveewing.com/.

Who: Kate Harding, expert on body image and sexual violence.

New, seminal, and upcoming books: Nasty Women, Asking for It, Victim Complex: On Snowflakes, Witch Hunts, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility

Learn more: On Twitter @KateHarding. Her website is https://www.kateharding.info/.




Connections to previous Wreckage: Ewing and Harding were both part of List #66: Public Voices to Pay Attention To.


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Rec. #840: Go Far

What: I adore the late lamented podcast Mystery Show, so this song holds a lot of additional emotional oomph for me. It's got the vaguely melancholy lilt of a slow music box carousel, but in the loveliest way possible.

Representative lyrics:

There'll come a day you see that it's true

Everything coming up roses for you

Hope that you did what you wanted to do

Connections to previous Wreckage: I called out my own affinity for songs that are "broody without preciousness" in Rec. #806 (listing several others there as well), and "Go Far" goes well with that musical aesthetic.

I highlighted my beloved Mystery Show in Rec. #403 and List #92.

Rec. #839: London Irish

What: This tv show is all about four Belfast expats living in London who generally make a series of bad decisions, including --

Bronagh wakes up after a wedding party wearing the bride's dress.
Conor pops out to get some fish and chips and returns seven days later with a Mexican woman who thinks he's Johnny Depp.
Packy is determined to attend a wake because he's got his eye on the grieving girlfriend.

Niamh kisses that corpse on a dare.

"Hijinks" doesn't quite cover it.

Comparable to: London Irish was written and created by Lisa McGee before she made Derry Girls. It's pretty much a more adult version of that.

How to get it: I had to dig for episodes on YouTube originally, but it's now streaming on Amazon Prime. 

Connections to previous Wreckage: London Irish was part of List #49: A Few of the Best First Seasons of TV I Watched in 2014.

Rec. #838: Megan Amram on The PosCast

What: Megan Amram, genius writer of The Good Place, visits the podcast co-hosted by her boss, Mike Schur. The named focus of this episode is Houdini-related puns, but mainly it's Amram, Schur, and Joe Posnanski chatting about baseball, musicals, and wordplay.

Representative quote: "I don't know a lot about baseball, but I am very passionate about it ... I mean, I know what a baseball is. From the emojis."

How to get it: If you search for "poscast," Google will autocorrect to "podcast." You can find a direct link to the episode here.

Connections to previous Wreckage: The PosCast was part of List #92. See more Megan Amram content in Rec. #427, Rec. #445, Rec. #594, and Rec. #751.

Rec. #837: Why Powerful Men Love to Cast Themselves as Victims

What: In this essay for New York Magazine's Intelligencer (news) section, Rebecca Traister examines how powerful men use language of extreme violence --- "lynching," "witch hunt," "mob," "guillotine," "beaten to death" --- when they are facing (generally mild) consequences or critiques for their actions.

It's infuriating and it's everywhere.


Representative quote: "This is the truly grotesque factor: It is power itself that renders people recognizable to us, affords them our sympathy and empathy; it’s power that makes them more likely to be believed when they tell us of the injustice they have suffered."

How to get it: The article was published on October 24.

Read more: Kate Harding (see List #66) has an upcoming book on this very subject - Victim Complex: On Snowflakes, Witch Hunts, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility.

Rec. #836: I Am Your Pug and I Have Heard the Call of the Wild

What: From McSweeney's Internet Tendency, please enjoy this short imagined monologue.

Representative quote: "You domesticated us. The cat is out of the bag. And now I’m scared of cats. And bags."

How to get it: "I Am Your Pug and I Have Heard the Call of the Wild" was published last week.

Connections to previous Wreckage: Enjoy more from McSweeney's Internet Tendency with Rec. #461: "If Literature's 'Complicated Men' Were on Tinder" and Rec. #522: "The First Female President."