The Pom Writers Recommend
Books, music, and essays.
Happy Monday, friends! Today we’re bringing you a link roundup for Media We’ve Been Enjoying Lately.
Taylor Schumann recommends…
I loved reading Mad Mable. It was excellent storytelling with the perfect amount of mystery and suspense.
I'm also loving Olivia Rodrigo’s new album! Sometimes you just need to dissociate to some teeny bopper bangers.
Amy Colleen recommends…
This excellent piece on matrescence by Fortesa Latifi.
Audrey Burges is always hilarious and her satirical take on her teen's perception of her typical day had me snort-laughing to the point that my own children wanted to know what was so funny.
This piece by Andrea Holme on grief, wisdom and dissonance. Though it touches on a well-known influencer who is currently in the news, I appreciated that it is respectful and gentle, not salacious or trying to capitalize on someone else’s grief.
Lindsay Fickas recommends…
This summer has gotten off to a rocky start in our household. The same week my kids got out for break, we had to put our beloved dog down. When I’m not managing chaos, I’m navigating my own grief. As a result, nearly everything I have consumed has been a form of disassociation.
This week I have finally started to crawl out of my bubble and explore new things, gravitating toward the gentle in all that I seek. Kevin Morby’s album, Little Wide Open, has been exactly what I need. It is a record filled with such warm instrumentals and thoughtful lyrics, you feel as though you might melt into the music. As a fellow Missourian, I resonate heavily with his love letter to the heartlands. “Badlands” has been playing on a near-constant loop, and the mimicked tornado sirens following the second verse is one of my favorite moments in recent releases.
I started slowly pecking away at my library holds pile, starting with the novel If You Love It, Let It Kill You by Hannah Pittard. The book itself is…fine. It falls into the same category as Miranda July’s All Fours where an author bases the writerly main character loosely on herself. There are times when I feel as though I want to protect her from the cynics of the world. Most of the time, I feel as though I would like to fight her in a grocery store parking lot. Novels like these always feel like disaster tourism where I get the chance to watch her blow up her life from afar. And unfortunately, that is my favorite category.
Now that the NBA Finals have finished, I also intend to dive back into the novel Three Ring Circus by Jeff Pearlman. I have an entire shelf of nonfictional books based on all the American wars, but this is the most dad-lit book I own. The book tells the story of the Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal years leading the Lakers to victory. If you love explosive inside stories and the chance to finally understand the difference between a Flagrant 1 and a Flagrant 2, it’s the perfect thing.
What have you been enjoying lately?
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