The Sunday Digest 017
Three drink minimum — I don't make the rules.
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
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Sunday Read: The Very Public Private Life of Andy Warhol
by Louis Menand for The New Yorker
I attribute it to the books my dad had on the coffee table as a kid. He wasn’t a huge Warhol guy, but he had some David Hockney books that I still think about today. As a child who spent most of his free time drawing, artists (and the lives of artists) always interested me.
This week’s Sunday Read is a piece about famous American artist Andy Warhol and the new Netflix documentary about his diaries. I have yet to watch the documentary itself, but it’s something I’ll surely be diving into — probably tonight.
Here’s an excerpt of what you can look forward to:
Warhol’s work is notoriously indeterminate. What did he think about Campbell’s soup, car crashes and electric chairs, Marilyn Monroe, Mao? He never said. Some people (mostly professional art critics) read social criticism into the work, even though Warhol does not appear to have ever expressed a political view. He was certainly not a political radical. He seems to have been a liberal Democrat. Other people think that the work can be read autobiographically. Netflix’s “Diaries” does an honorable job of raising these interpretative questions without closing them.
Read the entire piece here.
The Sunday Haiku: One-Star Uber Rating
Can we pull over?
Seriously, pull over.
*rolls down the window*
Relaxing Follow of the Week: @sightsofrelief
I’ve gotten to the point with my Instagram feed where I really only care about seeing (1) my close friends and (2) relaxing settings of places I can’t afford to go to.
While I’ve got the former covered, the latter is something that’s an ongoing process. Luckily, Sights of Relief is here to calm all of us during our anxiety-induced times of need.
Follow @sightsofrelief or live a life filled with chaos — your choice.
New Episode: The Holy Trinity of Brunch, Mint Juleps, and Arrival Fallacy
This week’s episode of The Sunday Scaries Podcast is a boozy one, so apologies to anyone out there who’s struggling with a hangover. Luckily, today’s discussion around The Holy Trinity of Brunch may inspire you to climb out of said-hangover.
Additionally, I took this opportunity ahead of next week’s Kentucky Derby to talk about a classic cocktail that I hold close to me — the mint julep. After having my first several Derbies ago, there’s something about the first Saturday in May that just gets me craving one.
And finally, I took a look at a recent completed goal of mine that left me feeling unfulfilled. As I looked more into it (specifically this column from The New York Times), it all began to make just a little more sense.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
Read this before Wednesday’s episode of Retail Therapy: TikTok’s New Favorite Aesthetic Is “Coastal Grandmother”
We’re suckers for a good aesthetic story, and given my history with romantic comedies I think we’ve finally found the crown jewel of Sunday Scaries-esque aesthetics: Coastal Grandmother.
Do you find yourself longing to take walks on the beach wrapped in a shawl, mulling over your latest fling? Or maybe you find yourself wishing to sit in the bay window of an elarged beach cottage, sipping a cup of coffee while reading a good book. Or perhaps you’re daydreaming about hosting a candlelit dinner party in your dreamy New England Cape with plenty of white wine to go around.
If any of the above is true, you may just be into “coastal grandmother.”
More on that this Wednesday, though.
See you then.
— Will
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