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Your Weekly Breakdown
To our friends, both old and new, welcome! This is Your Weekly Breakdown, your comfort newsletter for cozy weekends, now part of the Culture section of Hard Copy. We make sure you’re in-the-know and serve up the best in what to watch, listen to, and read.
Don’t worry, it’s still me, Emily, clacking away at the keyboard. I’ve been tucked away working on expanding with more op-eds, interviews, profiles, essays, and podcasts, all in service of helping you continue to create a life well-lived.
Anyhow, let’s get to what you came for:
In addition to the great book recommendations below, I wanted to highlight some great articles that I bookmarked:
my favourite think piece on Beyonce’s new country album
Sharon Stone on confidence, boundaries, and peace
a touching essay on a man’s family dinner with his wife and girlfriend
Until next week…
Enjoy!
Recommendations
đź“ş Watch
The Many Lives of Martha Stewart: who doesn’t love a great profile piece? The episodic show covers her rise to the limelight, her fall from grace, and her renewed position at the top of celebrity culture.
The French are always better at romance, and The Taste of Things takes us along for the swoon. Food, love, drama.
Scoop is a fun and damning dramatized take on the infamous Prince Andrew’s 2019 BBC interview about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Gillian Anderson and Billie Piper are clearly having so much fun. Delicious.
🎧 Listen
An absolute bop of a spring playlist that we shared this week in collaboration with curator extraordinaire Aidan froms Things from Gardens.
Who Trolled Amber Heard - an investigative podcast about the celebrity trial of the decade, and the destructive power of organized online trolling campaigns.
Tyla’s new album is a sonic masterpiece blending R&B, pop, afrobeats. It’s one of those albums that presents the listener with something new each time you press play. A true jam.
đź“š Read
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is a psychological thriller that takes the reader for an absolutely unpredictable ride. A famed artist shoots her husband, and never speaks again, leaving the criminal psychiatrist with one hell of a mystery.
Men Explain Things to Me and other essays by Rebecca Solnit is feminist, funny, and very frank. It’s our special little antidote to the constant mansplaining.
Don’t Forget to Scream by Marianne levy is the quintessential tome on what modern motherhood is really all about.