This is a very weird book. It's hugely overwrought in its prose and its big argument is almost entirely conjecture but it's still oddly compelling as a portrait of societal rot.

I plan to spend today reading this.

She was meant to be the next Rita Hayworth. He was the entertainer who dominated Vegas. Their romance almost ended with his murder. I wrote about Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. Sydney Sweeney is not invited. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remem...

Shout out to Jessie Ware for starting her album launch mini tour in Dundee.

A reminder that this incel loser is only in the mainstream because of his publicist, a rank misogynist who also represents Candace Owens and got sacked from Vice for cozying up to Milo Yiannopolous and encouraging him to harass Lindy West.

Happy Good Friday.

I love this piece and I love this film.

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She was meant to be the next Rita Hayworth. He was the entertainer who dominated Vegas. Their romance almost ended with his murder. I wrote about Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr. Sydney Sweeney is not invited. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remem...

Tonight's film.

I found an old issue of Movieline in a charity shop. It had a juicy blind item in it. Who was the starlet making prank phone calls to sabotage her competition? Let's figure it out together! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/lets-solve-t...

“All the writers are using AI, they just don’t tell anyone.” Okay then how the fuck do you know that? You got an AI whisper network? Is there there a lil club? What the fuck do you want from me, a little cardboard crown because you’re brave enough to admit you can’t write worth shit?

I really appreciate this Lindy West deep dive from Ashley: dense, fair, empathetic to Lindy, and proportionate about the context of her work (seriously, it feels like every other write-up of her book was from some smarmy loser who never got over Jezebel calling them a TERF in 2015.)

Oh hell yes, I deserve this. deadline.com/2026/04/wagn...

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Anyone up for some classic Hollywood drama? Olive Thomas was a rising star of silent cinema. She married the brother of the most famous person in Hollywood. She died tragically, and then the conspiracies fired up. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...

If Backrooms is successful, can we finally get a House of Leaves adaptation?

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Here's what Bowen Yang told me about being put in conversion therapy in Colorado as a teenager: “That’s scar tissue that will never totally go away...That was a moment of real danger for me, where this thing I love and cherish about myself—there was an effort to eradicate it.”

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Anyone up for some classic Hollywood drama? Olive Thomas was a rising star of silent cinema. She married the brother of the most famous person in Hollywood. She died tragically, and then the conspiracies fired up. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...

Instead of watching that HBO Harry Potter show, might I recommend another HBO series instead? One focused on fantastical creatures called "Italians" and set in the faraway land of "New Jersey"?

Meet Tyger, Megan thee Stallion's New Dog!

See also the people bragging about how they're going to pirate it. Your cultural incuriosity is not an act of progressive rebellion. This also applies to people who claim their HP fanfiction is exempt from these discussions because "JKR would hate it."

As we have always said: it was never about "protecting women." Scratch the skin of a transphobe and you will always find a garden-variety misogynist beneath it.

*checks author* Likely thing for him to say.

The two genders.

An afternoon at the theatre.

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Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

I wrote this.

Piggies update from my cousin.

I had this very issue of Movieline, remember this item well, and have occasionally wondered over the years who it might be about...

I found an old issue of Movieline in a charity shop. It had a juicy blind item about an actress who was sabotaging her competition to land top roles. Why don't we try to solve it together? gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/lets-solve-t...

I wrote about the endless nightmare of making your living from vivisections of your personal trauma.

It’s always bothered me how readily people seem to see “Believe Women” as the start of some terrifying, socially disastrous ~slippery slope~ ending with us wreaking havoc on innocent bystanders. Is this threat so compelling, so viscerally realistic, that disbelieving us is the only viable default?

Oh, you're so moral that you're going to pirate the wizard show for kids? Should we throw a party? Should we invite John Lithgow?

Well, Nicki Minaj's MAGA Turn Makes a Lot More Sense Now

I wrote this.

Let's talk about Miley Cyrus on the eve of the return of Hannah Montana! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/profiled-wel...

People will giddily give their money to a bigot who admits to using it to fund horrendous transphobic campaigns rather than read literally any other book.

Let's talk about Miley Cyrus on the eve of the return of Hannah Montana! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/profiled-wel...

What's your favourite album? Top 10: Discovery: Daft Punk Release the Stars: Rufus Wainwright Hejira: Joni Mitchell Pacific Ocean Blue: Dennis Wilson When I Get Home: Solange Low: David Bowie Stop Making Sense: Talking Heads I'm Your Man: Leonard Cohen Erotica: Madonna Sound & Fury: Sturgill Simpson

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Tonight's film.

Reading a biography on Liz Taylor and Richard Burton has reminded me of the man who almost became her last husband! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remem...