Some Monday Links

Stuff to read or listen to

Welcome to What’s Helping Today, a newsletter about the everyday work of staying alive on earth — written by author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen.

Hey folks,

It’s a stormy Monday here, my week a hectic one. I wanted to briefly share some links to things to maybe read or listen to …

Also … this was lovely:

Another exceptional thing that happened last week: LitHub published an extensive feature that Maris and Sandy Allen worked super hard on. They put together a collection of reviews by queer writers of books by transgender authors that had been overlooked by the New York Times while Pamela Paul (a chump) was in charge of book coverage. The books are extremely varied in terms of tone and structure and subject matter, and I got to see how much effort Maris (and Sandy) put in to curate the list, commission the coverage, and edit the whole thing. It felt like such an innovative and necessary way to support queer artists.

Once again, here’s the package itself …

Also here’s a playlist of just Andrew Bird’s instrumental albums …

Take care,
Sandy

p.s. If you ever want to write into this very newsletter’s advice column, Dear Sandy, the instructions on how to do so are here. Here was the latest one, the one before that, and the one before that

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