Links for June 20
Father's day, Susan Collins, ambitious restaurants in nontraditional locations, SBF, Andrew Tate, Nike ads
Hello, hope you had a smooth week. On top of the overall level of activity, also traveling this week, but some good links all the same. Someday, there will be book commentary again.
Links
On the occasion of father’s day, Megan Stack wrote a lovely and compelling piece about her late father and the way his death (in her twenties) started her own life.
If you want to contemplate why Susan Collins wins so much (traditionally), and also the question lingering over this one, this piece is good.
Heidi Blake’s (very intense and often grim!!!) investigation into the Tate brothers is 20,000 words, but it really moves and it is difficult to put down.
If you want a vibe of someone who like wants things at cross purposes in a somewhat endearing way, here is a piece about the best omakase in Omaha:
“We’re out here blazing a trail, and every night someone will go, ‘This is definitely the best sushi in Omaha,’ ” Utterback said. “I don’t even get the state, the region, the surrounding Zip Codes! If we were in New York, if we were in L.A., people wouldn’t say, ‘This is good for L.A.’ They would say, ‘This is one of the best I’ve ever had.’ We never get that. No one’s ever tried to change it.”
This has some interesting stuff in it about affordability issues and nonissues that get conflated into one larger amorphous political topic.
Regardless of whether you care much about Sam Bankman-Fried, this has some really interesting details (including communally) about what it’s like inside the prisons he’s been in.
Everyone’s seen it but it’s still so good, which is the post-Finals Safdie Nike ad.
In terms of the vibe, a vintage New Yorker cover and these cool photos from the Statue of Liberty restoration.
Light book commentary
Very light.
A note on all this
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you enjoy. The goal here is just to offer up some links you may have missed, and maybe the occasional commentary on something in politics or a book I may have read that you, the reader, might enjoy. If you have thoughts on any of this, hit me up at katherinemillernyc@gmail.com.