What's got my attention this week #45
Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend
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
• 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.
• on the earthly pleasures of seeing someone else’s life laid out on a pavement/sidewalk.
• What learnt being on both sides of layoffs.