Issue #36: A Guide to Online Shopping (Part 1)

And an interview with the co-host of Oprahdemics.

Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!

🎥 Everything Everywhere All at Once: I’ll keep this brief, so you can experience this movie the same way I did—knowing almost nothing beyond a vague recommendation. Completely surprising and genre-defying (it’s made by the same filmmakers behind ‘Swiss Army Man,’ where Daniel Radcliffe plays a corpse the entire movie), it stars Michelle Yeoh as a multiverse-spanning badass tasked with saving the world and her daughter.

🎧 “Oprahdemics” Podcast: In their weekly podcast, co-hosts Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (a professor at my alma mater, Wellesley!) and Dr. Leah Wright Rigueur explore Oprah through the context of the pivotal historical and cultural moments she covered and endorsed on her show. They invite experts to discuss the time Oprah had everyone on her staff go vegan for a week, her infatuation with Toni Morrison, and her coverage of the L.A. Riots. It’s a fascinating walk through the past two decades—read on for my interview with Dr. Jackson!