Straight Up Girlfriend robots, Justin Bieber and blowing up your life
We are finally getting stuck into the book everyone has been talking about hunnies: All Fours by Miranda July, which has prompted an 'erotic revolution', with a wave of women 'blowing up their lives' by ending their marriages and pursuing sexual liberation. Why is older women’s sexual desire so taboo? Next, following the viral pictures of a 'gaunt' Justin Bieber and Tuppence Middleton’s memoir on her struggle with OCD, we discuss the ethics of media speculation into celebrity health. And also this week: the debate on AI voice recreation as American Murder: Gaby Petito trends at No1 Netflix, a Substack suggesting Booktok content is becoming soft porn for teenage girls (ft our Forth Wing review) and new AI girlfriend thriller Companion.
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Reviews/recs:
- Harris Dickinson on Chicken Shop Date, YouTube
- Harris Dickinson on Off Menu
- Is Rose Gray the Next Big British Pop Star? Vogue
- All Fours, Miranda July
- Miranda July’s Lucrative Fantasies, Substack
- Why Gen X Women are Having the Best Sex
- Scorpions: a memoir excerpt in the Guardian by Tuppence Middleton
- Companion, in cinemas now
- Her, Amazon Prime
- American Murder: Gabby Petito, Netflix
- If BookTok Was a Community Of Men We Would be Calling the Police, Substack
New York recs:
- Carbone
- Baretto
- Bemelman's, Carlyle
- Moxy Chelsea
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