Fran Magazine: Issue #22

The "beauty" issue

You’re reading Fran Magazine, the first and only blog to be written while its author is drinking a big bowl of soup. This issue is for paid subscribers, but consider sharing or gifting a subscription to someone with really good taste and/or connection to beauty products who can send me something for free. I’m not above sponsored content and I am actively working towards selling out.

Dog Days

It’s hot. It’s humid. I’m sweating. It’s summer, if not officially, then everything but “officially.” We keep having then killing then having then killing ants. Someone yelled “fuck you!” at me on the street. The daylight is so long and the nights are too quick. Sometimes when I’m working in the kitchen (as I am now) I’ll see the power lines out the window start to tremble and then a squirrel will come dashing across.

Issues of Fran Magazine intended for paid subscribers usually refer to some piece of older pop culture, but I’ll be honest and say that everything I’m interested in right now is new: Elif Batuman’s sequel to The Idiot called Either/Or, Terence Davies’ film Benediction, the latest season of Barry.

This weekend, as I tried to convince my friend Veronica to go to a party with me, she texted the following:

Let this be proof that if you text me a “you should do a ______ issue of Fran mag,” I’ll at least entertain the thought.