Worth the Click + Books, Of Course 📚

It’s time for another round of things on my recent radar that I think are worth sharing! This one is filled with a wide range of interesting things and plenty of book titles.

More of this please

Sandy Ernest Allen has a great new project at Literary Hub, “to commission a whole package of reviews of books by trans and queer authors, folks whose projects weren’t covered by the NYT under Paul’s reign.” If you’re looking for books to read, you’ve got a list of 13! And if you’ve never read the fantastic takedown of Pamela Paul by Andrea Long Chu you should: Goodbye, Pamela Paul

We can still fix things

“‘This report shows that cities can achieve what was once thought impossible: cutting toxic air pollution by 20-45% in a little over a decade,’ said Cecilia Vaca Jones, executive director of Breathe Cities, one of the organisations behind the report. ‘This isn’t just happening in one corner of the world; from Warsaw to Bangkok, cities are proving that we have the tools to solve this crisis right now.’” The Guardian: London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution

The problem remains the gatekeepers

“Films with casts that were 41–50% BIPOC performed the best across several categories, including the highest median global and domestic box office receipts, the largest average theater releases, the highest average opening-weekend rank, and the widest international distribution.” Variety: Audiences Prefer Films With Diverse Casts, UCLA Study Finds

Ryan Coogler’s croissant metaphor

Ryan Coogler sat down with Ben Stiller to talk about creating Sinners and his croissant metaphor is A+.

Judy Blume participated in this biography but refuses to comment on the book

“If a writer’s novels present the parts of her that she is willing to show, a biographer’s job is to recover what has been swept out of sight: those vivid, occasionally unsettling details that isolate and define her, and that risk placing her beyond the pale.” The New Yorker: “Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography

The Blues on Tiny Desk!

Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Buddy Guy performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk months before turning 90 and he’s incredible. Definitely make time for these 20 minutes.

A site of alternatives

Cut Off the Spigot: Finding alternatives to badly behaving companies, big corporations, & private equity firms.

The best TV show right now will have another season

The second season of Paradise (Hulu) is the best tv series airing right now and I’m so glad there will be a third season. I don’t want to know anything about it, for maximum twist enjoyment, but I will be seated.

And this has the potential to be really good (*fingers crossed)

This is a fun, humorous mystery series that finds a single mom and her kid’s babysitter constantly getting into criminal trouble. I’m surprised it took this long to get adapted but the Tina Fey brand seems like a perfect pairing. People: Tina Fey to Adapt Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano for Peacock

Trans Rights Readathon!

Join the Trans Rights readathon, which runs through March 31st! There’s also an auction with great things to bid on, including “Custom book/media themed macarons”.

You can follow the readathon, and join in, across all the major social medias and here’s the main site page. Need reading suggestions? I had at least 10 books on my 2025 Best Books Read list that you can read for the readathon (or at any time!):

Hot Girls With Balls by Benedict Nguyen

Woodworking by Emily St. James

Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan

Authority by Andrea Long Chu

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson

Lesson in Magic by Charlie Jane Anders

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

Here are some recent trailers for films and shows I want to see

And some recently acquired galleys I’m excited to read

Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw

Obsessed with this cover.

Sincerely, Your Murderer by Ravena Guron

YA murder mystery.

Clementine H. Hopeful is Not a Hero by Noah Corey

Title sold me.

Kill the Puckers by Sam Evans

Good pun, Navessa Allen sold me on dark romance and Heated Rivalry sold me on hockey romance so win-win.

Seasons of Glass & Iron by Amal El-Mohtar

By the author of This Is How You Lose the Time War.