> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fugs and Pieces: Yes, It's Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-pieces-yes-its-thursday-july-2nd-2020-07-2020/ - Published: 2020-07-02T19:00:19.000Z - Updated: 2020-07-02T22:33:24.000Z - Description: We're taking tomorrow off for the holiday. - Author: Jessica - Tags: Fugs and Pieces, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09 If you're an American, I hope you have a safe and healthy 4th of July weekend, at home! Everyone else: Please be well, and we'll see you again on Monday. A bit of news: *The Heir Affair* comes out on TUESDAY in the US and you can buy it here: - [Bookshop.org (which also aids indie bookstores)](https://bookshop.org/a/2671/9781538715918?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) - [Amazon](https://amzn.to/2YrU1JX?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) - [Barnes & Noble](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heir-affair-heather-cocks/1133983277?ean=9781538715918&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) - [Books-a-Million](https://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781538715918??ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) - [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Heather%5FCocks%5FThe%5FHeir%5FAffair?id=Z7G0DwAAQBAJ&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) - [iBooks](https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-heir-affair/id1482603290?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) We're also doing an event on Tuesday with NPR's, and author of *Evvie Drake Starts Over*, Linda Holmes. [It's a ticketed event through Vroman's bookstore, and the cost of the ticket gets you a signed hardback copy of the book](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heather-cocks-jessica-morgan-discuss-the-heir-affair-tickets-111017472248?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). We'd love to see you there (virtually!). If you are in Canada, the paperback is already out, but the Kindle and hardcover versions also come out the 7th. ([Chapters Indigo made us the Fiction Book of the Month!](https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/books-of-the-month/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)) That bit of business taken care of, to the rest of the links: Jasmine Guillory wrote this great piece, for Time: [Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don’t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction](https://time.com/5861861/jasmine-guillory-black-fiction/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) This is amazing, at the NYT: [The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/26/arts/design/rosie-lee-tompkins-quilts.html??ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Also at the NYT: ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: [What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/books/book-publishing-black.html?smid=tw-share&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) I thought this was very illuminating, and personally educational, at the National Post, about Canada Day: ['No celebrations': Indigenous communities, leaders share Canada Day frustrations. ](https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/no-celebrations-indigenous-communities-leaders-share-canada-day-frustrations-2?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Related, at Smithsonian, is this piece that they've updated and added to regularly, since 2003: [Do American Indians celebrate the 4th of July?](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2020/07/01/do-american-indians-celebrate-4th-july/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) (It's interesting that they're treating this post like a living document.) Also at Smithsonian, from 2016 but certainly very timely now (I saw this because it's currently one of their most-read posts):[ The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore. ](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Very nostalgic, at Jezebel: [What's Your Summer Reading Pick From This 1999 Doubleday Book Club Ad?](https://theattic.jezebel.com/whats-your-summer-reading-pick-from-this-1999-doubleday-1844219947?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) This was [a really illuminating piece, at the NYT, about Black wine professionals](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/dining/drinks/black-wine-professionals-sommeliers.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Texas Monthly continues to be great, this time with: [Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Master Auctioneer? Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”](https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/auctioneer-school-texas/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Speaking of logistics, this is swell, at Vulture: [The (Fake) Songs of Summer A compendium of the infectious tunes in Will Ferrell’s *Eurovision Song Contest*.](https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/eurovision-song-contest-the-story-of-fire-saga.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) At GQ, [this is a lovely interview with Yo-Yo Ma.](https://www.gq.com/story/yo-yo-ma-songs-of-comfort-interview?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) This is really interesting, at Harper's Bazaar: [André Leon Talley on the Influential Black Fashion Designers You Should Know](https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a32948143/andre-leon-talley-black-fashion-designers/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Glamour's [2020 College Women of the Year are amazing and inspirational.](https://www.glamour.com/story/meet-glamours-2020-college-women-of-the-year?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) At Bitch: [This Year, Pride Returned to Its Radical Roots](https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/pride-returns-radical-roots?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) [Have you seen this homemade Jane Austen Monopoly game?](https://twitter.com/sophlynne/status/1277293877507108870?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) It's amazing. \[via Twitter\] At Lainey: [Six Months of Ben and Ana](https://www.laineygossip.com/ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-great-spirits-six-months-into-relationship/66553?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Feels like six years! This is great, at The Cut:[ I Dressed Like Catherine the Great for a Week](https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/i-dressed-like-catherine-the-great-for-a-week.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) At the NYT:[ Man Falls Through the Floor and Discovers a Well Beneath a Connecticut House.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/guilford-ct-fire-rescue-well.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Who hasn't? This is a lovely piece [about Madeline Kahn at Bright Wall/Dark Room](https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2020/06/10/were-playing-space-explorers/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). I've heard the new Baby-Sitters Club TV series is wonderful, which is great news. Those books are very dear to my heart. At the NYT: [The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/books/review/baby-sitters-club-ann-martin-raina-telgemeier-netflix.html??ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) At Socialite Life: [TikTok Saved Judi Dench’s Life During Quarantine](https://socialitelife.com/judi-dench-tiktok-quarantine/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) And, finally, at Primetimer: [Beat by Beat: The Time Susan Lucci Broke Her Daytime Emmys Losing Streak](https://www.primetimer.com/features/beat-by-beat-the-time-susan-lucci-broke-her-daytime-emmys-streak?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)