Elyse Marshall

Mostly books and music.

[themarysue]

Michelle Obama Gave Her Last Speech As FLOTUS and We’re Not Crying, You’re Crying

Michelle Obama's last speech as First Lady is a burst of hope and tears.

You matter.

[elysemarshall]

Love you, Michelle. xoxo

[npr]

David Bowie, Prince and George Michael are all pop icons who died in 2016. But there is something else that connects them: They all helped to redefine the concept of masculinity in pop culture.

Cultural critic Wesley Morris has been thinking about how these artists performed gender and sexuality. He recently wrote in The New York Times that in today’s climate, “The Princes and the George Michaels seem as radical as ever.”

Morris joined NPR’s Ari Shapiro to discuss how Bowie, Prince and Michael called upon their audiences to reimagine what it is to be a man.

On The Men Who Rattled Pop’s Gender Rules — And What It Means To Lose Them Now

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

[gameofkardashians]

Blac Chyna Leaves Rob Kardashian, Takes Baby Dream

Rob Kardashian posted a number of Snapchat videos on Saturday, December 17, revealing that Blac Chyna had moved out and taken their baby Dream with her after her Instagram account was hacked — details

This weekend, Blac Chyna, Queen of the Petty Kingdoms, Breaker of Kardashian Rules, Protector of the Dream, and Owner of Lashed Bar (has anyone been there?), stole away in the dead of night, clutching only her daughter and Rob’s Eggos.

Rob be like

Chyna be like

Kris be like 

The Kardashian girls be like 

[elysemarshall]

The GIF set we’ve all been waiting for.

[nprbooks]

WHOOOO ALL THE BOOKS!  The Concierge is LIVE right now, with more than 300 of our favorite books of the year, a giant pile of staff picks and a brand new category:

Check it out here, and have fun!

– Petra

[npr]

Time to get reading! -Emily

[humansofnewyork]

“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thinking maybe this isn’t what I was cut out to do. I was forty years old, and I’d invested a lot of time and effort into something that didn’t seem to be working. But the thing that got me through that moment, and any other time that I’ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it’s about the work. Because if you’re worrying about yourself—if you’re thinking: ‘Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?’ – then you’re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”

[buzzfeed]

This Baby Was Born With The Exact White Streak In Her Hair As Her Mother

[elysemarshall]

ROGUE?!

[kevinwada-deactivated20230323]

Cloak & Dagger

2016 commission

[elysemarshall]

Love this!

[penguinteen]

Inside the Magical Storytelling Factory of Authors Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs

Literature is full of famous couples, many of them as tragic and dysfunctional as they are romantic. Few married writers combine both the harmony...

Goals.

[nprmusic]

Common: Tiny Desk At The White House

Watch Common play 3 new songs (and an oldie) with Robert Glasper and Bilal in the @whitehouse library. 

[elysemarshall]

These two, gorgeous inside and out 😍😍😍 #staypeculiar

[elysemarshall]

Sleeping pup. The newest Pfeiffer, Kenna.

[elysemarshall]

Tim Burton immortalized outside the Chinese Theatre as Winona Ryder looks on. We got to see his adaptation of @ransomriggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children right after and it was everything! Get ready to #staypeculiar on September 30!

[elysemarshall]

Borrowed @carmelai's copy of Another Brooklyn by @jacqueline_woodson, which traveled with her to Italy and is now my sunny San Francisco #read.

[elysemarshall]

A moment of repose after @taherehmafi's segment on @latenightseth - tune in tonight! (at Rockefeller Center)

[jesperfahey]

this harry potter and hamilton mashup thread will make your life

[lbardugo-deactivated20210617]

Unwillingly charmed. 

[theartofnotwriting-deactivated2]

Four for you, Internet. You go, Internet.

[sansadaynes]

[nprfreshair]

Marriage And Motherhood Are A ‘Source Of Power,’ Says Comic Ali Wong

Ali Wong spoke to Fresh Air producer Ann Marie Baldonado about her new material since the birth of her daughter: 

“I could go on and on and on about breastfeeding. I thought it was supposed to be this beautiful bonding ceremony, where I would feel like I was sitting on a lily pad in a meadow and bunnies would gather at my feet while the fat Hawaiian man version of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” would play.

But really it’s like this savage ritual that just reminds you that all of us, we’re nothing but mammals. We ain’t special. You know? When she gets hungry, my baby girl, she yanks my nipple back and forth like that bear effing up Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. It’s frightening.”

[elysemarshall]

The motherhood they don’t tell you about.

[nprbooks]

Autumn 1979. Ohio. Five kids on bikes tool around their suburban development and stumble into an adventure involving monsters and sinister authority figures.

Autumn 1983. Indiana. Four kids on bikes tool around their suburban development and stumble into an adventure involving monsters and sinister authority figures.

Autumn 1988. Ohio. Four kids on bikes tool around their suburban development and stumble into an adventure involving monsters and sinister authority figures.

These are the setups of three recent pop culture offerings: respectively, the 2011 film Super 8, the new Netflix series Stranger Things, and the Image Comics series Paper Girls, which launched last year.

But these three properties share a lot more than just that common jumping-off point. They are all concerned with adolescence, specifically the push-pull tension between the familiar safety of home and the unknown dangers of the adult world.

Kids On Bikes: The Sci-Fi Nostalgia Of ‘Stranger Things’, 'Paper Girls’ & 'Super 8’

[elysemarshall]

Yes, just bought ‘Paper Girls’ at #SDCC and can’t wait to read it.