104. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: “… within the space of what employees call The Property, the apathy of a hideously unfair world is suspended.” | The rules and hazards of presenting flowers in ballet. | The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, living the dream of being a brain on a stick. | “(M)y women were interested in other things… their own lives and calling and politics and what they could give to life.” Margaret Drabble interviewed in the Believer. | “I wish you’d been raised by the new me,” she said more than once. | Envy: “I was falling for another writer, and I recognised my descent by its peculiar calling card: the fear of what I wanted.” | “There are mistakes of form and mistakes of content to be made in building a body of work. And for most of my life, I was unwilling to make a single one of them.”

LOOK: Hillary Del Ray. | London through the eyes of a New Yorker: cierva on Instagram. | missingfillmore on Instagram. | Lydia Davis: “This was not one of my own mother’s favorites.” | Nutrition Unplugged: what we’ll be seeing on Instagram in six months’ time. | Coconut red lentil soup. | Perfect lunch. | Bookmarking:

Jarvis Cocker’s TV series about outsider art is in on YouTube. | C/O Journal. | I have never found Dan Stevens attractive before this episode of High Maintenance. (Don’t bother watching any of this series if you’re not ready; the great thing about any artistic product is that you can get to it in your own time and when you are receptive! Not just because everyone’s saying it’s a “must watch.”) | Of course I’ll sign up to Sheila Heti’s Pigeon.

THINK: Social media is not self-expression. | Black lives matter.