What to read on Substack

Green Lucite engagement ring?!?

• Not-to-be-missed new Substack alert: Abigail Sandler’s Price Upon Request. She’s only written nine posts—one per week—but I went back and read them all. She describes her project as a “one woman crusade to bring ornament back.” This week, she asked authors to make reading recommendations with lamp pairings. Clever. Last week, she investigated game table furniture. (Instagram says the author is an architect.)

  

• “Did Don DeLillo Invent the Racy Hockey Novel?” Standing applause only to the New York Times for this piece. I had no idea! And I’m a bit of a DeLillo guy myself. (If you’re planning a trip to Greece this summer, you must pack The Names. He really knows how to balance sex and the esoteric.)

• Meet Max Stein, the agent every Substacker wants to land. He’s the present and the future! “He’s a manager for people who don’t really know what they need managed because they’re sort of strange creatives.”

• Hilarious no-news-peg piece about the Gould-Gessen’s. You can tell the writer pitched this story. You can’t manufacture passion! If you don’t already know who they are, just ignore it. This is Brooklyn news…

  

  This makes absolutely no sense but it’s very “Kate Hudson on vacation” to me, in a good way? I swear.