OCTOBER ‘24 READINGS
Ask Ugly: my mother is pressuring me to get plastic surgery. How do I deal with imperfection? • prose
‘I was convinced I was going to die’: Meet the people risking their lives for the perfect BBL • prose
How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid? • prose
Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77) • illustration
I Knew Diddy For Years. What I Now Remember Haunts Me. • prose (tw: violence, sexual assault)
Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business • prose
#38 by @soulmvtes • prose
Every morning the world is created • poetry, illustration
Keep going, still • prose
A Guide to Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys • prose
marquis & peele • prose
Hard Work, Success, and You • comic
Voices On Addiction: Incorrigible, A Love Story • prose
How Has Music Changed Since the 1950s? A Statistical Analysis • prose
Pep Talk • prose
Unlock Your Creativity in 10 Simple Steps • comic
does anyone know how to inherit wealth? • prose
how to stay in your body • prose
What Words May Come • prose
Birds on Stamps • illustration
My Mother, The Gambler • prose
How Bird Collecting Evolved Into Bird-Watching • prose
this is what it sounds like when dads cry • prose
The poets in my sketchbook • illustration
Forever Less Of Beauty • prose
The House With 1000 Stories • comic
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