Happy Friday, ya turkeys! I hope all you Americans had a good Thanksgiving and are planning to coast through your tryptophan-filled Fridays by idly browsing the internet. Because we have links for that.
ICYMI on FYA
This week on the blog, we kicked off our end of year content with the 2022 FYA Gift Guide and it is STOCKED with things you will want to buy your friends AND yourself.
Brian’s Stream It post this week investigates season two of Only Murders in the Building.
Brian also reviewed Kalena Miller’s The Night When No One Had Sex about a group of teens who make a pact to have sex on prom night that clearly does not go as planned.
Book-Related Things
Sabaa Tahir has won the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature! Here’s the full winners list.
Check out Yallfest 2022 in photos (if you feel like having FOMO).
What happens when publishing houses merge.
Is BookTok a reinvention of bookish social media, or just a repeat?
Onscreen Things
Slow news week for Onscreen Things, but if you, like me, plan to spend your weekend watching all the holiday things, Vulture has you covered.
Here’s what to watch this Thanksgiving weekend, or the definitive list of the best Friends Thanksgiving episodes.
OR if you’re like me and plan to go straight to Christmas movies, here are the best Christmas movies to stream on Amazon Prime and HBO Max.
Social Media Things
They call this Resting Weird Vibes
When everyone was like “Twitter is dying, it’s time to air your dirtiest laundry” this was what I wanted to see:
A great thread on gender non-conformists throughout history:
Hold on tight, spider monkey. We’re going to Target:
Miscellaneous Things
Starting the year off right. NBC’s New Year’s Eve party will be hosted by Miley Cyrus and…DOLLY PARTON.
The house from The Goonies is for sale!
Did y’all know that there’s a podcast all about Sassy magazine and that FYA queen Megan McCafferty is a regular guest? Name a better duo, we’ll wait.
Was anyone else as enthralled by the Joan Didion estate auction as I was???
What’d we miss? Drop your juiciest links in the comments!
