We’re reading Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff in September! I was so excited counting the votes—I feel like this book perfectly kick off fall reading. I hope it’s more of a hit than last month’s book was 😅 ALSO, this is the first book in a completed trilogy, which bodes well if anyone loves it and wants to continue on with the series!

Per usual, don’t forget to check the Discord for this month’s giveaway winner. I hope you all are having a wonderful start to September 🍁

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I don’t know if you’ve been on Threads recently, but the old discourse has come up once again:

Influencer Bad! Arcs should go to me instead! me: Good!

Anyway, I have a lot of thoughts that might be unpopular? Check out my video on Yourube and let me know if you agree or not?

https://youtu.be/dZE-ndCLBjk?is=br5WG_kr21MjHBbs

What: An Evening of Bourdieu

When: Sept 28, 7pm ET

Where: Online (no recording, live attendance only)

Cost: The price of my book

Tickets here

The king of TASTE

Pierre Bourdieu has been my fixation since I started to work on my novel about taste, DOES THIS MAKE ME LOOK RICH? He is a French sociologist who provides a scholarly approach to a subject that is typically very hand wavy and "you know it when you see it"--so I appreciate that he legitimizes a lot of "takes" that are otherwise, how should I put it, loosey goosey.

Bring me your cynics, your skeptics

My live chat will appeal to anyone who raises an eyebrow in skepticism every time they see a shortform video that "cites" Bourdieu. I'm confident that most of these TikTok scholars are getting their Bourdieu from 1) other Tiktokers 2) Wikipedia 3) AI. That's fine--it works for their purposes (making slop). I'm not here to castigate content creators for insufficient rigor in their research🙃 I know a losing battle when I see one.

If you're genuinely interested in Bourdieu,

so am I. That's why I'm reading Distinction even though it's not a walk in the park. My friend Neeha and I have been assigning reading every week and then meeting up to discuss it. Our conversations sound a lot like my Salons so I had the idea that we could broadcast our next one.

It's not a true Salon

I'm staying true to my tirade that Salon would never move online. This is a live podcast, if you will. We are going to have a conversation and stream it. POV: you're a fly on the wall while my friend and I chat about something that is interesting to us. Neeha is wonderful and smart (me, likewise) so I have no doubt it'll be a thoughtful dialogue and entertaining to boot. If it goes well, maybe we'll do it again.

I hope you can join us🥰