What's got my attention this week #14

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

Edinburgh festival season is upon us. Last weekend I interviewed Maggie O’Farrell, my sister from another mister, at Fringe By The Sea North Berwick about her wonderful novel, The Marriage Portrait.

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• Loved this piece about how newsletters are the new women’s magazines. Unsurprisingly!
• People always used to tell Zoe Williams she looked older than her age. Now she’s 50, she really doesn’t care. Anyway, she’s now, officially, “beekeeping age”. (I’m so here for that…)
• “I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.”
• Why adults should read children’s books.
• The women suing the Swiss government over climate change.
• Does your hangover get a hangover?
• Jam-making is the next big thing. Apparently.
• Chrissie Hynde: “I don’t mind getting older. I do mind getting uglier!”
• The invention of the male gaze.