LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Totally Nutz" Edition
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Dear Readers,
What a week. Here's what I'm thinking:
--Mailchimp silently farted last week, technologically speaking that is. Result: many people are saying that they did not receive my newsletter. Sorry 'bout that. The bad news is that Mailchimp expertise still eludes me. Good news is, folks notice when they don't get the newsletter.
--Today I head out for a couple of weeks of travel. I'll be going to the regular fun-but-work places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, but also to fun, non-work places like Maine. Understandably, Susan Collins was feted as she stepped off the plane yesterday after the healthcare vote. I don't know if I would recognize her but I will be on the lookout!
--Though August is upon us, there's still time to read the books you said you would read during the summer. This list of Michiko Kakutani's 38 years as The New York Times book critic will surely give you some ideas. Cheers to this influential and good-taste journalist/reviewer who has decided to step down.
--My personal recommendation is a book of (relatively long) short stories written by my near-favorite writer. It is seemingly all about men. But by their absence, it turns out that it's actually about women. Here is a great synopsis that sums up what constitutes a very compelling premise, at least for me!:
"Men Without Women is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost their women, usually to other men or death."
--Time for a movie? While 'Dunkirk' is not on-target fodder for LZ Sunday Paper coverage (it has, I think, not only zero "good" parts for women, it has zero parts at all--not even a nurse, mother, girlfriend or prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold to be found) it was good. On the war-is-hell movie continuum, this one was very good. I think that part of its box office dominance is that it has been very effectively marketed to women. One article said,
"Anecdotally, one of our sources told us he took his 90-year-old mother to the movie and she was blown away."
I don't know that I would have gone with the "blown away" vernacular for a war movie about 400,000 men stranded on a beach with no cover from air raid attacks, but I get the 90-year-old mother part. Something for everyone to enjoy, if they enjoy moody, sad, moving, tense, historical, well-cast, acted and directed drama.
This newsletter also has something for everyone to enjoy--a free-flowing range of news about and by women in business, media, digital, politics, and pop culture. Send me comments, questions, or stuff you think should go in next week's edition here. I have a bajillion pieces that I just don't have room for in the weekly edition, so you can follow me on Twitter to get a daily fix. I am on Insta @LZSundayPaper and at @LZFloors .
See you from the road!
//LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
New Details From Hillary Clinton's Memoir Revealed via The New York Times
POLITICS:
A Tale Of Two First Daughters via Dame Magazine
Murkowski and Collins Went Maverick Long Before McCain via The Boston Globe
Don't Get It Twisted: Women Saved Healthcare via National Women's Law Center
Female Senators Increasingly On The Receiving End Of Insults From Male Officials via The Washington Post
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski: The GOP Senate Duo Keeping Trump In Check via The Guardian
Kristin Beck, Transgender Navy SEAL Hero: "Let's Meet Face To Face and You Tell Me I'm Not Worthy" via Business Insider
Anthony Scaramucci's Wife Files For Divorce via PageSix
BUSINESS: DIGITAL, MEDIA, & TECH:
The 25 Best Companies For Women via Refinery29
If Go Daddy Can Turn The Corner On Sexism, Who Can't? via The New York Times
The Creation Story Of Women In VC via Hackernoon via Medium
Young Female Coders Get Strong Support For Facing Tough Culture via The San Francisco Chronicle
Laurene Powell Jobs Is Buying 'The Atlantic' via Recode
ARTS & POP CULTURE:
How 'Calculating and Methodical' R. Kelly Groomed A 'Naive' Young Woman via The Daily Beast
Rick Ross' Sexist Comments Reveal What Women In Hip Hop Are Really Up Against via The Huffington Post
The Secret Sexuality Behind Nintendo's 'Splatoon 2' via Mashable
Fashionista's Superlatives From The Fall 2017 Haute Couture Shows via Fashionista
Why Men Are Getting Less Marriage-able via Thrive Global
A Brown Woman With A White Man Brings Out The Worst In Indians via Quartz
Nearly Half Of All Murdered Women Are Killed By Romantic Partners via The Atlantic
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
150 Greatest Albums Made By Women via NPR
150+ Greatest Singles Made By Women via Spotify
The LZ Sunday Paperâ„¢ launched at the dawn of 2014. We expose and recirculate interesting content that is about, and frequently by, women in business, with a dose of ultra-relevant culture. We think that culture comes high and low, not much in between. Our audience is vast and not gender-driven. Every week we expect to deliver at least one good laugh. Send suggestions, clips, or names of people you think might enjoy this to LZSundayPaper@gmail.com.
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