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As 2019 draws to a close, I wanted to look back and recommend a few of my favorite things from the year: books, music, television (this was a great year for television!), movies, podcasts, and so on. I hope you check some of these out, and if they’re already among your favorites of the year, let me know! At the end I share a handful of the books, TV and other things I’m looking forward to in 2020.
Books:
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Adrienne Maree Brown
The Book of Flora, Meg Elison
Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids, Vivian Ho
The Atlas of Reds and Blues, Devi Laskar
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West
(You can hear me talking about Burnout on the GrottoPod podcast on Tuesday, Dec. 31. To keep up to date on that podcast, which I co-produce, sign up for our newsletter.)
Music:
Alcest, Spiritual Instinct
Lizzo, “Boys” (song)
Rope Sect, “Handsome Youth” (song)
Russian Circles, Blood Year
Chelsea Wolfe, Birth of Violence
Movies:
Hustlers
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Little Women
Marriage Story
The Farewell
Television:
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Fleabag
Game of Thrones (Season 8)
Gentleman Jack
Good Omens
His Dark Materials
Killing Eve
Pose
Shrill
The Magicians (Season 4)
Podcasts:
By-The-Bywater
How to Survive the End of the World
The Boiler Room
The Storm
This Podcast Will Kill You
YouTubers:
Bernadette Banner
Cathy Hay
Kitten Lady
James Welsh
Some Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2020:
Anne with an E, Season 3
Big Girl, Meg Elison
Breath, James Nestor
You Were Born For This, Chani Nicholas
She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, Bridget Quinn
Parked, Danielle Svetcov
The Magicians Season 5