Molly Young

Her hypnotic new novel asks: What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?

Hit the beach with a paranoid plagiarist, your best friend’s diary, and “a 17th-century female version of Larry David.”

Intimacies and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My Head  Vulture

Reading recommendations from Alia Shawkat, Hugh Grant, and the staff of Vanity Fair.

The life-changing magic of working out, an inactive shooter, and a rags-to-ennui tale to read this month.

The role occupies a peculiar place in the modern office.

A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.

Molly Young | The Oregonian/OregonLive  oregonlive.com

What can we learn about the meaning of solitude from a 50-year-old Elephas maximus at the Bronx Zoo?

A new crop of small printed magazines are the cool alternative to starting a Substack.

Court filings say the man had said two strangers attacked him before the shooting occurred.

Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so much more!

Petra Mayer of NPR Books talks about book sales during the pandemic as well as a few of her favorite books of the year.

His show “Big Mouth” is a seriously funny — and surprisingly mature — exploration of humanity’s most horrifying shared experience.

The YouTube celebrity Adriene Mishler made yoga accessible and search-optimized even before so many Americans were confined at home. Can she help us learn to live better lives in front of the computer?

If the idea of a “female Moroccan Henry Miller” makes your antennae wiggle, have I got a book for you.

The death of Molly Young has made its way into local political discussions once again as voters will select a new Jackson County state’s attorney and coroner on Nov. 3.

I believe this is a technically perfect book.

“I picked Fieldwork up because I saw interesting words on the flap (fascination, taboo, sexual),” wrote Stephen King. Why not you, too?

Here are some beach reads for all types of people and beaches.