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Weekend culture recommendations

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In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

My new weekend read just dropped! Set in the 2001 New York art world, it’s already anticipated to be the new gay book of the summer (you will see hot people reading this on the subway, on Fire Island, in Palm Springs, on planes, etc.), so how about you get a jump start on it now?

And speaking of gay reads, I’m incredibly disappointed that Luca Guadagnino won’t be directing a television version of The Shards (a book I’ve been reading for about a year at this point, even though I love it, it is long and I have a short attention span) anymore! I have yet to see either of replacement director, Kristoffer Borgli’s, films Dream Scenario or Sick of Myself … but maybe I’ll be back on board with the TV series once I have.

I’ll keep pushing through The Shards once I finish In Tongues. This playlist someone compiled of every song Bret Easton Ellis mentions in The Shards will provide great background music: