rcmnd

SpentBook

by Alison Bechdel

Who uses, recommends or left Spent, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

1 person

Kathryn Schulz
Journalist and author; staff writer at The New Yorker.
recommended

Uh, number two is a book that just is out uh this week, I believe, uh, which is this wonderful graphic novel spent by Allison Bechal, uh, with beautiful color artwork by her partner, Holly Ray Taylor. It's about the experience of growing up in a relatively harsh scrabble family and living this kind of marginal artistic existence and then suddenly finding yourself reasonably well off.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kathryn-schulz.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

2025-05-30·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.