101. READ. LOOK. THINK.

READ: “… the way you make a great work of art is by imitating it, and in your failure to imitate, that is where the beauty in your work lies, and that is where genius lies.” | Reading Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton (this review of it is a bit boring. Simply clarifying a problem is hard enough work on its own without having to propose solutions to everything.) | Emma Cline reads her Paris Review story Marion / on adolescence, pen pals, and the Manson girls / hell yes I’ll be reading her book.

LOOK: Watching Australia’s The Code on BBC iPlayer! | The dirty girls. | Lena Dunham’s bookshelf. (They’re great books, okay.) | How to poach an egg. Perhaps I will be brave enough to attempt this soon. It is an idiotic personal cooking hurdle! | Pickled salmon and cucumber salad. | Almond butter blueberry cookies. | Caramel and macadamia cheesecake.

THINK: When a woman conceals the first trimester of pregnancy, who is she trying to protect? | “We need to ask, today perhaps more than ever, why men turn against women when it is their own masculinity that is threatened; why does assaulting a woman appear so often to be the best way to compensate masculine failing and distress.” | “What may seem like an agreeable quid pro quo looks different in the long run, when women age out of the system without any returns on the time they invested.”