Please Read Me: The Magazine

A quarterly roundup of stories, thoughts & worthy distractions

It’s the four year anniversary of Please Read Me. I quite literally cannot thank you all enough for reading. Writing this newsletter started as an outlet for creativity and along the way, helped me transition careers! Can you believe?? To celebrate, please enjoy the first edition of Please Read Me: The Magazine. This edition is free, but next quarter, the magazine will be only for paid subscribers (so upgrade today!)

Substack is for the girlies (

Julianna

,

Hunter Harris

,

Alex Friedman

). My favorite zines of recent are: the weekly and Unstructured. There was a month growing up when my mail lady stole our People Magazine. I was heartbroken and angry. The mail lady had short red hair and definitely, positively, stole our People Magazine.

Nuuly sponsored my annual Galentine’s Dinner. I actually forgot I read Onyx Storm. Kendrick Lamar wore flared jeans and changed the course of time. I really loved the extended Eternal Sunshine album and the It Ends With Us press tour lasted far too long. Doechii’s Grammys performance and Parker Posey’s North Carolinian accent were life altering. My shower lamp! Gabby Windey is the best character on The Traitors. Bowen and Matt made Las Culturistas history, Dr. Robby made TV hot again, and Timmy pursued greatness.

Book recommendations by my ride or die

Lael O

! Gayle King “going to space”, Grimes reading the Communist Manifesto, and Reese Witherspoon in shock! Plus, read From Here to the Great Unknown and I’m Glad My Mom Died.

I can’t wait to start reading The Serpent and the Wings of Night! I don’t want to relive sitting in shit, so I think I’ll skip out on The Guest, but if you all could read Sweetbitter and manifest love for me, that would be great. Other books from the word of Lael are: The Rachel Incident, Talking at Night, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, This Time Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Thank you

Lael O

for these amazing recommendations!

These are all Googleable, but for good measure, I shall link them. My Kindle, my Mejuri ring, and New Balance 9060s. The Runna app, Dyson, Wiz lightbulbs, and my Warby glasses. The Crown Affair towel, my Baggu bag, and Impossible nuggies.