Weekend reading a la me.

I wouldn’t mind being in here right now. (Katrin Korfmann)

“By the time I was 27, I was pretty successful, but I didn’t feel like I was doing work that was meaningful.” I loved this interview with Molly Crabapple. (The Great Discontent)

“This first struck me as an almost hysterical overreach, but I came to see it as something else: Christian conservatives acknowledging feminism’s revolutionary potential, taking it far more seriously than did mainstream society.” Kathryn Joyce in Medium’s Backlash Book Club. (Medium) 

This is the best and most complete resource I’ve ever found on book publishing, including the (many, many) things that happen after you get the book contract. (Ian Irvine)

I’ll be your mirror: a cautionary tale of a former dream girl. (Rookie)

Okay, I’ll admit it: the last time I caught a medium-haul flight, I was quietly incensed when the person in front of me put their seat back, meaning I had to either A) crick my neck for the rest of the flight, or B) put my seat back, and similarly inconvenience the person in front of me. (I chose option A.) I considered it an act of selfishness; or prioritizing your comfort at the expense of others. But it turns out that other people consider it equally selfish to be incensed by people putting their seats back, and that these two tribes of people are not-at-all-quietly getting into fights on planes. What to make of it? I could write a whole post on this very First World Problem (and will, if people want me to), but for now I will just direct you to this post on Jezebel. The comments are fascinating. (Jezebel)

The Nation has put together a “state of the nation” on the new wave of racial justice organizing on the United States. (The Nation)

“In a way [Orange Is The New Black’s] Morello is like the mirror image of the Santa Barbara shooter, Elliot Rodger: the same but opposite. Rodger took his anger at his lack of attention from women—spurred on by porn and men’s rights forums—out on the female population in general in the most violent way, whereas Morello continues her stereotypically feminine obsession with romance and fixates on one man, dangerously crafting an alternate life with him.” (The Scarlett Woman)

“With Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century still on best-seller lists and New York City’s new spate of mixed-income housing developments, it is becoming harder for the fashionable rich to deny their disproportionate wealth.” Elissa Strauss on how income inequality is shaping high fashion. (The Week)

And a couple of stories from me over the past couple of weeks that you might have missed: I wrote about the rise of the #bossbabe and #girlboss (the hashtag is vital) for The Daily Beast, and interviewed two women about asexuality for Cosmopolitan.