Summer's here! 🏖️ For the next three weeks I plan to be on social media as little as possible (🤞🏻) so I'm leaving you all with my beautifully curated reading pile, both physical and digital, plus four novels I read in recent summers which I thought were amazing 🌊
Molly McGhee
@mollymcghee.com
Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Hey, Portland, just a reminder to get your tickets now for this incredible event. Marlon James is amazing and I can promise as the in-conversation partner a rollicking good time along with some great and serious conversation about James' new novel and career. www.powells.com/events/marlo...
Marlon James in Conversation With Jeff VanderMeer
The Legendary Independent Bookstore
powells.com
"To do such organizing work, however, we must first actually see these workers." Ashley Dawson reviews Kohei Saito’s "Capital From Zero" and Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohei-saito-capital-from-zero/
He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.
Art by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki
Tomorrow is the big day - see you at McNally Jackson’s new DeKalb spot www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/colson...
Colson Whitehead: Book Launch at McNally Jackson Books
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his…
downtownbrooklyn.com
The only useful mnemonic device for "continually" vs. "continuously" is to remember to look them up every single time, and you still won't know which one is which.
I can’t believe it’s finally here. This is the holy grail of all ARCs as far as I’m concerned. I have been waiting (and waiting) for the follow up to Gus Moreno’s THIS THING BETWEEN US for years. Years. Now it’s in my hands. I absolutely cannot wait to begin IF YOU THINK YOU’RE LONELY NOW. Feb 2027.
Remember the quote about how God must love beetles?
Earth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More Than Three Times as Many as Previously Thought, a Study Suggests
Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that those counts may be drastically underestimated
smithsonianmag.com
I reviewed Paul Tremblay's newest (and got off one of my favorite puns in recent memory) - gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/b...
She’s an Aimless Gamer. Her New Job: Pilot This Brain-Dead Man.
nytimes.com
I wrote a short story about the surveillance state 😇
Call of Duty | Molly McGhee
This is why it was more important than ever to track dangerous thinkers.
thebaffler.com
Thank you for being part of our twelfth anniversary, Mr. Mayor! It was an honor to have you officiate our marriage.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury
every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse
I hope everyone has a nice sleep cycle tonight. Good luck in the ether.
my read-through of dostoyevsky did not heal me as i thought it would. if anything i am worse than ever. perhaps it was foolish not to anticipate this outcome.