After a month of being off-the-grid on a farm, Eliza is back in the stu and the girlies reunite to roundup this month’s media consumption. Julia unleashes her backlog of urgent cultural dispatches: what it was like getting the “he’s dead” texts with no service, thoughts on Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, and how Wired basically dropped Womb Service 2.0.  They also dig into the inherent eeriness of twins (sorry twinchies), the elusive category of books that will get men to read, and the timeless beauty of gothic horror during spooktress season.

BOOKS

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Piglet: A Novel by Lottie Hazell

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Herculine by Grace Byron

The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

MOVIES

East of Eden

Sliding Doors

Poto and Cabengo

Freaky Friday

Twinless

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser

TV SHOWS

Overcompensating

ARTICLES

The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It? 

MUSIC

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