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Please, shut up about Goodreads
On The End of Everything’s Booker Prize win
Nov 10 • Ira Madison III
Vanity Fair can shade Carrie Coon, but not Sam Altman
On celebrity profiles
Nov 7 • Ira Madison III
My week in annotations
The Frank Index #002
Nov 6 • Ira Madison III
Nathan Fielder and Rachel Cusk are their own narrators
On You Can See Everything, and Nathan Fielder’s kinship with Rachel Cusk and autofiction
Nov 5 • Ira Madison III
A November of Black Nonfiction
Why I’m reading only Black authors this month
Nov 2 • Ira Madison III

October 2026

The Frank Index
A weekly inventory of taste
Oct 30 • Ira Madison III
Performative Politics in Potomac
The RHOP fandom’s silence on misogynist jokes against Robyn Dixon
Oct 26 • Ira Madison III
Frank Reads: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
A recording from Ira Madison III's live video
Oct 21 • Ira Madison III and Satya
1:13:35
Frank Reads: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Join a live video discussion on Oct 21
Oct 14 • Ira Madison III
A one day writing workshop this November
Pop Culture As Craft
Oct 11 • Ira Madison III
Winter’s Come and Gone
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s seventh year slump
Oct 8 • Ira Madison III

September 2026

My 10 Best Shows of the 21st Century
My NYT Best TV Shows ballot + new published fiction
Sep 24 • Ira Madison III
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