The Best Things You’ll Ever Read About Hair Extensions and Medical Acting

At XOJane, Julieanne Smolinski’s fragmented essay about Los Angeles, hair extensions, loneliness, sausage, etc. is a gorgeous, funny delight (Some days, I sit in bed for hours and hours, reading, only getting up when I have to. Sometimes I think, “Hey, that was a great day!” and other times I think, “Uh oh”). Leslie Jamison’s “The Empathy Exams,” a long piece on medical acting, vulnerability and kindness at the Believer (I’m fluent in the symptoms of preeclampsia and asthma and appendicitis. I play a mom whose baby has blue lips) is a knockout too. [XOJane, The Believer]