Wasp hive, assemble: I hope you didn’t forget about everyone’s favorite sporty rumored cannibals, a.k.a the Yellowjackets girls, who are back for season two this Sunday! The Showtime series has the simmering female rage of Desperate Housewives, the unhinged supernatural undercurrents of Riverdale, a perfectly nostalgic ’90s soundtrack, and a stacked cast. Enough said!

Page-turner:  I picked up a copy of Anderson Cooper’s Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty at a book talk I went to purely because Andy Cohen was hosting. But I couldn’t put it down because it’s packed full of fascinating and frothy NYC high society history.

An inspirational watch: American Masters: In the Making is an uplifting series of documentary shorts spotlighting barrier-breaking artists as they become masters of their craft. Tune in for free on PBS.  *Sponsor 

Would you still love me if I was a worm? I was instantly delighted by Worms magazine’s DIY aesthetic and freewheeling, FUN lens on the notoriously lofty literary world. Even better, they focus on publishing work by women and non-binary writers.

Follow your nose: It’s amazing what a spritz of perfume can do for my mood. This Maison Margiela set of mini perfumes is perfect for the sentimental but indecisive who can’t decide if we want to smell like a “Jazz Club” or “Springtime in a Park.”

Strangely soothing: If, like me, you struggle to listen to music with lyrics while working, might I recommend the dulcet tones of professional whistler Molly Lewis? Her otherworldly warbling is like a soothing sound bath for the central nervous system.

Fave new follow: I love scrolling through artist Laura Watters’ gaudy, surreal paintings exploring magic, femininity, old Hollywood, horror movies and beyond. How could you not be obsessed with this little goblin in the mirror?

Pump it up: If you’ve heard murmurs of the Vanderpump Rules “Scandoval” but don’t understand why the Bravosphere has been rocked to its core, it’s time to start the series, which follows the dizzying highs and devastating lows of a group of young L.A. waiters with stars in their eyes. I assure you, you won’t regret it!

A Seoul-ful film: Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul follows a chaotic, young French woman named Freddie as she unexpectedly reconnects with her birth parents in South Korea. It’s so much messier and more ambiguous than it sounds, which is why it’s been playing on my mind since I saw it in theaters last month. Catch it in theaters.

Morning pages: I’ve been doing “morning pages”, a.k.a  writing three stream of consciousness pages first thing in the morning, on and off since I first read The Artist’s Way a few years back. As author Julia Cameron warned, my missives are “often negative, frequently fragmented, and repetitive”—but it does feel great to flush that out of the system to ideally make way for something better!

Not-boring sports coverage: Stay up-to-date with everything happening in wide world of sports with this women-founded and written newsletter. Whether you’re new to watching or a die-hard fan, we think you’ll love it.

Organized Fun: Who’s It All For? (The Face). Making sense of the commodification of shared experiences.

Cool People Accidentally Saved America’s Feet (The Atlantic). “Millennials popularized bulky, super-cushioned shoes. Then Millennials got old.”

Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin? (The New Yorker). “We might recognize metabolism and appetite as biological facts rather than as moral choices; rising rates of Type 2 diabetes and obesity around the globe could be reversed.”

‘We’re Book Nerds’: The Female Friends Opening Bookshops Together (The Guardian). BFF goals.

“‘Oh, This Is Gonna Be Classic!’”: Paris Hilton Remembers the “Bimbo Summit” in Her New Memoir (Vanity Fair). An entertaining and breathless excerpt that manages to cover that iconic photo of Paris, Britney and Lindsay, an attempted escape from an abusive wilderness program, and an anecdote about hanging out with “Puffy” at Burning Man.

Planning a Garden? Here's a Step-by-Step Guide to Start Off on the Right Foot (NPR). It’s time to start.

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