Links to Infinity and Beyond

Feels like a links weekend, doesn’t it? Next week, we’ll have an interview with Severance creator/head writer Dan Erickson and, if everything goes as planned, the long-awaited sequel to The Age of Houseplants. This week, you have a picture of Steve from a perfect Spring run and a whole lot of links.

• After Elamin recommended Morgan Wade last week I realized I’d been listening to her through the Indigo playlist all year. Country/alt-country fans, this is for you.

• People ask me about my indoor plant pots a lot and my most trusted source is always the local nursery — but a lot of people don’t have good local nurseries, and these West Elm pots are currently on affordable sale (I have 3; they’re great)

• Just finished an interview with Camryn Garrett about her great YA fiction, so if you’d like to read ahead of its publication (sometime in the next month) find her work here

• New Irene Earrings!!!! (I have the Ripple and the Crescent and get so many compliments; don’t miss the 20% off code)

• The puzzle we’re doing now: Night Sky

• Hyper specific recommendation but if you have a golf playing person in your life like me, this is the hoodie for them

• I love Design Mom’s IG content just generally and this recent story on restoring old carriage house doors was fascinating (watch the others, too!)

• The Myth of Visible Abs

• Whew I have been WAITING for Brandon Taylor to write about the genre vagaries of Gilded Age

• A really remarkable piece of reporting on the emergency response to the Amtrak derailment in one of the most rural areas of the West (and written by a college senior!)

• I sure enjoy a good church condo (thanks to the Zillowsurfing corner of the Culture Discord for this one)

• If you love unique and difficult homes and houseplants, you will enjoy this newsletter, written by a Culture Study subscriber

• "Many will claim this a win for representation, but it’s not the idea that Indianness can be desirable that I find worth celebrating"

• People ask about the dogs’ favorite toys. Peggy loves any toy she can destroy. But Steve, he’s a connoisseur of these. Simple, satisfactory, Steve.

• The art of the film still (and if you love that, you’ll also love this)

• How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon. “The company’s response to his tiny initial protest may haunt it for years to come.”

• This is a story about overtraining but it is absolutely a story about productivity culture

• “Duke stands for what this country is,” McMillan Cottom said. “Carolina stands for what people hope this country can be. In the Southern context, Duke is the elite Southern aristocracy.”

  This week’s just trust me for Peloton

• This week’s just trust me

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