Your weekend recommendations
Hey friends,
How's everyone doing?! Spring is on full blast, and the sunshine has been a lifesaver. It's been a very full week on my end with work travel and the usual life juggles you all know well, so this newsy will be shorter than usual but, as always, filled to the brim with the same top-notch recommendations for what to watch, listen to, and read. Enjoy!
Sending big hugs,
Emily @ Hard Copy
📺 Watch
Biiig fan of Tom Hardy’s lips and gravelly voice, so I have to recommend Havoc, where he plays a bruised detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s son. (Netflix)
Surface is currently in Season 2, but I’ve only been suckered in recently to Season 1, and I quite enjoy it. The series follows Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who is trying to piece together the mystery of her own life after a traumatic fall leaves her with amnesia. Everything is not as it seems. (AppleTV)
Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of the comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the dance drama Étoile promises to be the show to pop on when we need something easy and comfortable to watch. (Prime)
🎧 Listen
Julien Baker of boygenius teams up with Torres for a smooth, bluesy, and country-influenced rock album, Send a Prayer My Way.
I’ve always loved the whimsical nature of Beirut albums and their latest, A Study of Losses.
My therapist suggested part of my struggle these days is my inability to grieve the loss of my former self. This is an interesting concept, and this podcast episode on The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience with Francis Weller has been really helpful in better understanding and reframing my perspective.
In the constant effort to reduce my phone-induced dopamine dependence, I always enjoy re-reading the likes of Dopamine Nation, and listening to the author Dr. Anna Lembke on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
📚 Read
As an editor at Archway Editions, Naomi Falk is part of a team that has published the likes of Blake Butler, Paul Schrader, and Lynne Tillman. The Surrender of Man marks her literary debut. Combining memoir and criticism, Naomi writes about the art that has impacted her most deeply, devoting each chapter to a new work. Featured artists include Louise Bourgeois, Remedios Vara, Gregory Crewdson, and Wendy Red Star.
Julia Elliott, award-winning author and University of South Carolina Gender Studies professor who has been called a modern-day Angela Carter is keeping the fairy tale tradition alive with Hellions. The stories bounce throughout space and time—one takes place in a medieval convent, while another is anchored in a North Carolina feminist colony. Yet echoes of Southern Gothic folklore are present throughout the text.
Lauren Cook’s I Love Shopping is composed of anecdotes that straddle the line between short story and prose poem and was first published in 2019. A passage from the text went viral (“Here is my kinky roleplay: I am an honest person. I am not ashamed of myself, the things I do… I have everything I need in this life”); the collection was even featured in Interview. Now, after the success of Cook’s most recent release, Sex Goblin, it’s back in print for your literary enjoyment.