🧆🥘🍤🎄TAPAS FOR CHRISTMAS? TAPAS FOR CHRISTMAS.

Your turkey could never.

Dec 7, 2025

November 2025

🦃 Nonfiction November

Heading South for the winter; Buying a house—in this economy?; No one's reading; Everyone wants to read; and much more...

Nov 2, 2025

October 2025

🍁👻🕸️🦇 Orange You Glad It's October?

The climate's a mess but the books are great; Noir all the time; American hegemony, but make it show business; and so much more.

Oct 5, 2025

September 2025

🍂🎃☕️ September: We Are So Back

A monthly book pick with Big Fall Fiction Energy; Tim Riggins but with a Mississippi accent; Chicken, road, etc.; The robots will never be(at) us, and…

Sep 7, 2025

August 2025

August: Sunday Afternoon, But Make It 31 Days

A long, hot summer calls for a longer, hot(take-filled) Your Inside Voice. In this issue: Spies are everywhere. What it is to miss New Orleans, Smurfin…

Aug 3, 2025

June 2025

Can June Hear Me?

Mario Puzo meets Walter Mosley. Sound the siren. Gatekeepers are back (but are they?). Row, row row your summer, sloppily down the stream. And so much…

Jun 8, 2025

May 2025

The Month of May-triarch

Mother Always Knows, Hope for Hollywood, and A Hot Take Gone (quickly) Cold

May 3, 2025

April 2025

April's Fooling No One

America's (Magazine) Golden Age, America's (Tech) Not-So-Golden Age, and the miniseries is so back.

Apr 5, 2025

March 2025

Marching into March...

Your Hotel California could never, Oscar is ready for his close up, book clubs are on the edge, and so very much more...

Mar 1, 2025

February 2025

January was a Year in a Month

In this month's newsletter: What is reality, anyway? Also, a literary pairing to "Severance" that'll help take the edge off, BookTok, the business of…

Feb 1, 2025

December 2024

Wreaking Havoc

The Dark White Lotus, Diplomats, and Widows

Dec 7, 2024

November 2024

🐦🗳️🧟‍♂️ The Spookiest of Seasons

Optimistic Hollywood ennui, a not-so-scary trip through Middle America, and a giant bird walk into a bar...

Nov 2, 2024