What's got my attention this week #45

Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend

E.Jean Carroll, who took Trump to court and won, is one of this year’s Time 100 Most Influential People

Hello new subscribers! There are so many of you – yesterday’s newsletter about the midlife divorce epidemic taking place amongst my (heterosexual) friends and acquaintances really struck a chord! – that I want to say a special hello and thank you. I’m so happy to have you here. In case you don’t know, every week I do at least two newsletters, the Thursday essay and then, on Friday, a round up of all The Shift-adjacent things that have grabbed my attention this week. (As well as the monthly bookclub, chat etc) Let me know what you think. Samx

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• If you liked yesterday’s essay, you might find this piece – Is Marriage Stressing You Out? – by

Deborah Copaken

interesting.
• Chaka Khan on the night she was catfished by Prince! £
• One Day author David Nicholls on the perverse pleasure of long, soggy, solo walks.
• In defence of never learning how to cook. (I feel seen.)
• Is your envy out of control?
• What we can learn from artists in their 90s.
• This 1995 piece about OJ Simpson, and how there’s another law for rich, powerful men has startling (and somewhat depressing) resonance today.
•

Clover Stroud

on the earthly pleasures of seeing someone else’s life laid out on a pavement/sidewalk.
• What

Kirsten Powers

learnt being on both sides of layoffs.