HeyJaredFeminist Music Geek
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Bookshelf: Summer 2026 (opens the original)
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School started last Wednesday at UA. While it is still technically summer, the air thick with cicadas and sweat, it is psychologically autumn. This fall, I’m chairing a book prize committee (details to follow). But before I clear off my shelf to make room for a fresh stack, here’s what I read over the break. In June, I celebrated Pride with a cluster of books about queer life and expression that culminated in a final proof of Christine Capetola’s monumental work (details to follow). For the US S
An extraordinary life (opens the original)
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Madonna turned 68 yesterday, but leave it to a Leo to hijack Cancer season so she can start her birthday celebration early. She dropped Confessions II on July 3, and leave it to a gay icon who became a star at the height of the AIDS crisis to pull Pride into the Semiquincentennial. As a longtime Madonna fan, I’m both glad and somewhat relieved to say that I really like her new album. Her reunion with Stuart Price, her primary collaborator on 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, has produced some
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