Flaming Hydra: And finally! k.e. harloe on journalists getting fucking P-A-I-D, in conversation with Matt Tinoco, journalist and co-founder of a new indie news sight for Los Angeles flaminghydra.com/pay-the-jour...

Happy Saturday, hopefully you are spending it at the beach or under a cool damp rock. Here is a THREAD of all the great stories we published this week:

Harry Siegel with a brief history on how all those housewives "found time" to write or make art, and the incredibly condescending ways they were covered in the press: flaminghydra.com/issue-104/#p...

Harried homemakers / Stress-free cookoutsflaminghydra.com Today: Harry Siegel, senior editor at THE CITY, co-host of the FAQ NYC podcast, and columnist at the New York Daily News; and Emily Flake, cartoonist, writer, performer, illustrator, and proprietress ...

Emily Flake prepares you for grilling and existential dread season flaminghydra.com/are-you-read...

Are You Ready For Grilling and Quiet Existential Panic Season?flaminghydra.com by Emily Flake Summer’s here, and it’s time to fire up the grill! Make sure you’re ready for the best and possibly last grilling season of your life with this handy checklist! • Sturdy tongs. Nothi...

Moh Telbani on his family's uneasy life in exile from Palestine: flaminghydra.com/life-outside...

Life Outside (and Inside) Gazaflaminghydra.com by Moh Telbani It’s been two months for me here in Egypt, and I really cannot hide that I miss my home country very much and am trying very hard to get along with the people here, even though we sh...

@mariabustillos.bsky.social considers the genre of CRUISE ESSAY whilst on a boat journeyof her own, and wonders about the peevishness underpinning the whole thing flaminghydra.com/my-boat-essay/

My Boat Essayflaminghydra.com by Maria Bustillos I. There’s a tiny archipelago in Loch Broom in the Scottish Highlands called the Summer Isles, which you can tour via Shearwater Cruises, out of the pretty town of Ullapool. I ...

@kolatubosun.bsky.social with a consideration of Reader's Digest (UK) and how it was joyfully incorporated into Nigerian English vocabulary flaminghydra.com/delving-into...

Delving Into Reader's Digestflaminghydra.com by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún A few weeks ago, I read that Reader’s Digest (U.K.) was shutting down after 86 years. I’ve returned to the news several times since then, to remind myself of what Reader’s Digest...

A delightful read from Carrie Frye about Nora Ephron's peach pie from Heartburn: flaminghydra.com/a-tart-summe...

A Tart Summer Sliceflaminghydra.com by Carrie Frye The past few summers, when it hits mid-June or so, my husband starts making the pie from Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel Heartburn: … but here is the best peach pie we made: Put 1 ¼ cups ...

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social in defense of the personal essay, which is good, actually flaminghydra.com/the-dangerou...

The Dangerous World of Personal Essaysflaminghydra.com by Rax King “The Personal Essay Boom Is Over,” wrote Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker back in 2017, the boom in question having taken place in the early 2010s. Those personal essays “came off as unsee...

To make you feel worse, if possible, @gabrielsnyder.bsky.social on Trump's terrifyingly specific campaign promises flaminghydra.com/13-real-terr...

13 Real, Terrifyingly Specific Trump Campaign Promisesflaminghydra.com by Gabriel Snyder What would Donald Trump actually do if he actually became president again? It’s been all too easy, especially if you have enjoyed tuning out his bombast since he left the White Hous...

And finally! k.e. harloe on journalists getting fucking P-A-I-D, in conversation with Matt Tinoco, journalist and co-founder of a new indie news sight for Los Angeles flaminghydra.com/pay-the-jour...

Pay the Journalists For the Journalismflaminghydra.com A Q&A with Matt Tinoco of LA Public Press

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