Morgan Jerkins Starts Her Own Newsletter
Author Morgan Jerkins has announced that she’s starting her own newsletter entitled Lorain, in honor of Toni Morrison’s birthplace. In a post on Twitter, Jerkins details the reasons behind starting the newsletter: “I have been disenchanted with the way the media treats those who look like me and those who have even less structural privileges than I do…The community I hope to have here is one that seeks to understand the broader implications and connectedness of everything from large, societal events down to the minutiae in our everyday lives.”
You can subscribe to Jerkins’ newsletter via Substack for free, and you will receive a new post every Tuesday. For paid subscribers ($6 a month), you will get: weekly posts on Tuesdays; Friday link round-ups or community threads on current events; access to monthly video uploads where Jerkins will talk career and money with industry folx; and a rolling advice column. Founding members ($200 a year) will receive all of the above as well as the opportunity to work 1:1 with Jerkins personally. Jerkins’ first story drops today, so if you’re interested, you can subscribe now!
Zazie Beetz in Talks to Return for Joker: Folie à Deux
Zazie Beetz is in talks to reprise her role as Sophie Dumond Warner Bros/DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, directed by Todd Phillips. The film, which is rumored to be a musical, will also star Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix reprising his role as Arthur Fleck. Joker: Folie à Deux is set to start shooting in December and will hit theaters on October 4th, 2024.
Charles Dickens Exhibition in London Explores the Author’s Lifelong Fascination with the Paranormal
Starting in October, Victorian author Charles Dickens’ fascination with the paranormal will be the subject of an exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum in central London. Among the exhibits is a never-before-displayed letter from the author to William Howitt. Dickens asks whether the spiritualist and fellow writer has suggestions for “any haunted house whatsoever within the limits of the United Kingdom where nobody can live, eat, drink, stand, lie or sleep without sleep-molestation.” The exhibition will also include Dickens’s own, annotated copy of The Haunted Man that the author read from during public performances. To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, Ghosts and the Supernatural opens on October 5th.
The Bennett House from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice is for Sale!
The property that was used as the Bennet family’s home in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice series is for sale for £6,000,000.