Today I learned: How to say heat wave in French! How hard it is to be an adult living with one’s parents in the Hamptons! And about Hannah “Cassie” Murray’s great new memoir!
ONLINE THINGS
The European Heat Wave Is Melting Twitter
Becca Schuh documents what it’s like to be both on the internet and abroad.
Becca is in France, which means she’s been experiencing a historic and lethal heat wave. Persevering heroically, she has found some tweets to share with us that convey the situation in the way only tweets can. (For a dispatch from men’s Fashion Week, here’s Sam Hine’s report.)
It’s somehow weirder, worse, better, and more unhinged than even this can communicate.
This is actually the exact type of brain malfunction that the canicule causes.
Literally the only reward for the sweat lodge that is Paris is these vibes at the Canal St. Martin.
As if this weren’t enough going on in Paris, Club Chalamet got attacked by a fellow celeb stalker outside a hotel?!
It is not only Paris that is in chaos mode. It is also Great Britain.
Also, I hear you guys had an election back in New York?
THE HAMPTONS ISSUE
Pity the Adult Children Summering at Their Parents’ Hamptons Homes!
No sarcasm, it sounds like an absolute nightmare.
If your parents bought a house in the Hamptons long ago, when ordinary people could still do that, it kind of makes sense to use your vacation days to visit them or even to live there for a while in the summer, as Lucy Boyle does. But beyond the inevitable tiffs about laundry and using coasters, there are also the class tensions that arise between the middle-class 40-somethings staying with mom and dad and the beyond-moneyed 40-somethings who own their Hamptons homes.
Lind’s parents bought their first house on Shelter Island for $64,000 in 1980. The average home price in the area is now over $2 million. Summer rentals start at around $15,000 a month. So for many downwardly mobile millennials looking to re-create their childhoods with their own kids, staying with Mom and Dad is the only viable option. “I think there is this interesting dynamic of people who grew up coming out here as children,” says Lind. “You know who your peers were, who you grew up with there. And then there’s all these other people who are now in their 40s who have actually purchased their own houses themselves, and you don’t know who they are. So you’re kind of like, ‘Hi, I’m a writer. You must be a venture capitalist.’”
Is a free vacation worth daily ego death?
BOOKS
Hannah Murray Wrote a Great Book About Going Nuts
In an interview, the actress gets candid about acting, writing, and mental illness.
Immediately before being hospitalized and diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Skins and Game of Thrones actress Hannah Murray had been drawn into a wellness cult that focused on energy healing. In her new memoir, The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness, Murray describes the experience in a way that has resonated with readers who are familiar with psychosis. Fran Hoepfner talked to her about the seven years she spent writing the book, going back to school for creative writing, and the inherent weirdness of writing and acting.
I do think there’s something about creative work where I look at this book now, and I’m like, Where did you come from? There’s things I see in it that I didn’t intentionally do. I think that can feel very magical. But also: Acting is a weird job. Writing is a weird job. It’s a strange thing to go deep into imaginative worlds, or your own memories, and examine them from all these different angles and construct something for people to read. We require overactive imaginations in those industries, which can be a really wonderful thing, but also I think my imagination could be so vivid that it made me vulnerable in certain ways.
As someone of both “loving Skins” and “psychotic break” experience, I’m so excited to read this!
Click Your Way Out
Zohran Mamdani promised, and delivered, a rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments.
A detailed, wonky interview with Darializa Avila Chevalier about housing and Harlem.
Meta is getting into prediction markets as a last-ditch attempt to keep us feeding it our information in exchange for nothing.
The last day of Prime Day is your chance to get discounted, Strat-endorsed candles or tea kettles or vacuums or headphones.
Eight things you should never say to anyone.
School’s out for summer! It’s Pride weekend! The Mets are playing the Phillies tonight! Congratulations to all of us simply for being alive!
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This made me miss my house in the Hamptons that only exists in my dreams