Summitry [#68]
Annyeong,
After being knocked down by the worst jet lag I've ever experienced, I am awake again at the "correct" hours of the day. There is a lot going on here and in my life, I guess, but ugh, I don't want to talk about it. Wah wah. There are many links to share!
Reading
Research endorses keeping your phone in another room. Tomorrow terrifies me (ht @dannydb). Is it the "end stage" of the Trump presidency? Art Acevedo's had enough. Sexpat journalists are ruining Asia coverage is THE hot link circulating in my circle right now, obviously. When 12-year-old Meghan Markle challenged a sexist commercial. How to handle "benevolent sexism." In our beauty-obsessed world, self confidence is "laughably insufficient." You can't read this profile and then not want to read this man's books (h/t @ReeveHamilton) A non-native Korean speaker, a native son. "Incels" don't even really exist. Come for the lies about his wealth, stay for the audio of him faking an accent while pretending to be a publicist. The embassy spectacle in Jerusalem. 50 years in jail for the Texas fajita heist. What I miss, a comic. Finally: What your Myers Briggs type tells you about whether you'll take a Myers Briggs test.
Werk and Musings
North Korea threatens to pull out of the Singapore summit. Reflections on the inter-Korean summit with the Vox "Today Explained" podcast. Asia Society Policy Institute invited me to talk to young wonks about whatever I want, so I talked about women in South Korea and Japan. Notes on a quick week in Amuricuh. "Elise Tries" won a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. The Gracies are being handed out this week in Beverly Hills, which I'm super sad to miss. But NPR ladies (we have six winners this year) will be representing. Go team!
Watch
The Fourth Estate, a behind-the-scenes documentary about The New York Times in the age of Trump, premieres May 27.
The Americans is almost over for good and it's going out as excruciatingly as it has ever been.
As we wrote in yearbooks way-back-when, have a kickass summer,
Elise
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