Some of the Best Things I Read This Year, Culled A Little Bit From My Brain and Email But Mostly From This Tumblr:

The Percentages: A Biography of Class, Sady Doyle at Tiger Beatdown

Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Connor Oberst! by Ben Dolnick

Cowgirl Mouth, by Molly Lambert (though almost anything else she wrote could go here, too)

Yes There are Grocery Stores in Detriot, by James Griffoen

Beauty School, Crotch Out, by Julie Lauren Vick

Ask An Abortion Provider, by Dolores P.

Jonathan Gold Reviews the Olive Garden, by Jonathan Gold

Going Native: Writing Place in LA, by Edan Lepucki

My Rayannes, by Emma Straub

Too Much Information, John Jeremiah Sullivan on DFW & The Pale King (same goes for JJS as Molly, above, with a special mention for Peyton’s Place, because the house I grew up on was often used as a set and yes.)