Happy new year everyone,

I hope you're looking forward to an email of some misc stuff I was jamming on in 2023. You already know the books and the albums, of course, but not everything fits into those categories.

Well, I guess books fit into those categories, but here's another books thing from me - it's the yearly Vincennes Review of Books. This time around I went really deep on the work of a business academic and he really engaged with it, driving more traffic than I strictly expected to this silly joke:

https://medium.com/@vincennes/vincennes-review-of-books-2022-2fdfa151ce6b

Last year I also got EXTREMELY into the Maintenance Phase podcast, about diet/health/wellness discourse and featuring "fat woman about town" Aubrey Gordon. If you're looking for a way into this, their deep dives into wellness personalities are always good, but my personal recommendation is to start with Snake Oil:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0o641Ypdw61Ry06LbWu9ru

And then go to Celery Juice:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1iGta3rVlOUGzULqnPqPAL

Which form a delightful diptych, if you will, of podcast episodes.

Finally, as you know I love outfits and I love production design so obviously I am ALL OVER the Marie Antoinette thing on iPlayer. Apparently it's been criticised as historically inaccurate? lol, like I care, it's not my period, go nuts on the dramatic licence. Check out this headdress:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dlx596/marie-antoinette-series-1-1-the-slap

Love,

Alex.