On Substack, the novelist Catherine Lacey wrote a post saying she stayed up all night reading Sad Tiger. “I took several pages of notes, copied out many passages, and I only stopped reading when I had to eat, sleep, or talk to Daniel about it, since he’d read the Spanish translation a few months earlier.” I’m between books right now, so I grabbed it on Kindle. It’s a harrowing, compulsive read about a young girl raped continually by her stepdad. It’s written in a clear and direct style that reminds me—both in tone and content—of Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, which focuses on a woman trying to get her family to admit that she was abused. Will and Testament was a sensation in Norway, as Sad Tiger is a sensation in France. Both are frankly titillating and obscene (though the former more in an intellectual sense). Sad Tiger talks explicitly about the sex acts; Will and Testament trawls through her family’s garbage so intently the author’s sister insisted on writing her own counter version of events. Not a recommendation for either, unless you’re looking for this sort of thing! I couldn’t stop reading…

Did anyone read A Child Called It when they were younger? A weird/voyeuristic abuse novel that was disseminated across American libraries as if it was YA for reasons I’ll never understand. Horribly written, from what I can remember, but a strange phenom nonetheless.

My 18-year-old friend Ara Lopez arrived in France wearing an extremely short skirt and moccasins?! Both Ara and the influencer (above) are wearing this model from Isabel Marant, which feels very throwback to me. Ara’s were in black. Calling this trend now. I was in The Row a few months ago, and they had a single pair of mid-calf suede moccasins—now nowhere to be found online.

Hasan Piker is taking the weekend off from streaming for his brother’s bachelor party. This will be his longest break from streaming since June 11, 2018?! Give the man his flowers.