You Need a Break: What’s Your Favorite Thing to Read?

I learned that Kim Kardashian West gave birth to a baby boy over the weekend.

That at the time of announcement, the baby was as-of-yet unnamed (at least publicly).

I also learned that people were really vying hard for name Wild. Then I learned that Saint won.

I learned all of this about 12345678 times over because it seemed to be the only story anyone was posting about, which meant that I didn’t need to read it. Also, I’m not a baby-news kind of gal.

But I did click to read about about 5 different versions of the same “Ryan Gosling can’t stop laughing” clip. I needed a laugh too and think Kate McKinnon is a hero.

I read a story about White Debt, and I read the comments, because someone I respect tweeted that it was a must-read. (Then I guess I was like, shit. Better read.)

Another long one I read from start to finish: Eddie Redmayne’s Complicated Masculinity. I clicked it because a friend shared it, I love Eddie Redmayne and I want to see The Danish Girl. I stayed because the writing was good, the article was interesting and the author had a unique point of view.

I also read about strobing (I’d never heard of it before), caught up on NY Mag, read through the New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs (both are happy habits) and spent about 500 hours scrolling past different meme accounts on Instagram (needed to zone out).

So no shit: I clicked different things for different reasons — because I wanted to learn, to be entertained, hear a different opinion than the one barking in my own head, hear an opinion that agreed with the one barking in my own head, to let my brain melt. But I already know my own reasons.

What I’m more curious about are the kinds of stories that drive you. What do you love to read? Are you on the eternal search for fashion advice? Do you just want to laugh, context be damned? Are you, in fact, a celebri-baby news person?

While I have your ear, A) here’s an earring and B) what’s your favorite thing to read on Man Repeller? What do you actually want to see?

Have you ever been to a bar or restaurant but you don’t know what you want to drink and the bartender asks, “Well what do you like?” and then creates, like, the ideal cocktail that you didn’t even know you wanted?

Yea. Tell me that, but about stuff you want to read.

Elizabeth wearing: Veda green suede jacket, Topshop turtleneck, Taylor Morris sunglasses, MAC matte lipstick in “Diva;” p hotographed by Krista Anna Lewis.

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