Fran Magazine: Sunday Dispatch, Mar. 3-9

Big bug, Dune: Part Two (unrelated), more Hades

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Bug alert

Last Sunday it was sunny and warm and breezy, so Claire and I hopped the train up to the Natural History Museum to take advantage of her membership and see a movie about blue whales (nice), the new elephant exhibit (very okay), and the insect exhibit and butterfly garden (always fun). The bug pictured above is a golden-eyed stick insect.

Emma Stefansky

hasn’t written about them for

Bugstack

yet but consider this a plaintive request.

I had my first piece in The Atlantic this past week with a book list on what Hollywood is “really” like. Of course, if there are celebrity readers of Fran Magazine, you’re welcome to tell me if I left something off. I tried to include an eclectic mix of standards, memoirs, and recent reads.