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Is the Death of Millennial Wedding Culture Upon Us?

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By Rowan Beaird
| ELLE Verified
6 min read Earlier this month, Taylor Swift—perhaps the ultimate millennial among us—married Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in a multimillion-dollar ceremony in an 820,000-square-foot sports and entertainment complex. Reportedly, nearly 1,000 guests were in attendance. For some reason, Adam Sandler officiated. Like the excesses of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI before them, Swift and Kelce’s nuptial festivities feel, to me, like the swan song of a decadent era.
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Rowan Beaird’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Tenderness

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By Rowan Beaird
| largeheartedboy.com
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Rowan Beaird’s novel Tenderness is both propulsive and moving, a book both literary and thrilling.
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What Romance Novels Taught Me About Writing Literary Fiction

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By Rowan Beaird
| Literary Hub Verified
Rowan Beaird on How Reading Romance Rewired Her Writing Brain In August of 2021, I couldn’t read. I’d just had a miscarriage—my second within six months—and every time I picked up a novel, my attention would splinter, the words disconnecting from one another, nearly incomprehensible. I complained about this to a friend. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. “It’s like my brain has changed. I can’t even reread books I love.” Article continues after advertisement She asked what I was reading.
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