My picks for #sundayread for September 29, 2019:

• I listened to “Frankenstein,” all credit to young Mary Shelley for her genius and her creativity.
  https://buff.ly/2nUW5u4
• Chika’s story: A fight to cure the incurable
  By @MitchAlbom
• Gunfire on a South Carolina school playground still haunts the first graders who survived
  By @JohnWoodrowCox and @ChrisAlcantara
• Nobody Would Have Been Surprised If I Had Died
  By @KatherineFugate
• Becoming an American in the Age of Trump
  By Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
• How women became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
  By @JiaTolentino
  (via @sundaylongread)
• 44 years. 41 sexual abuse allegations. How the past caught up to a former Olympian.
  By @MikeSKessler and Mark Fainaru-Wada @markfwespn
  (via @sundaylongread)
• .@RollingStone feature on @TaylorSwift13
  By Brian Hiatt @hiattb
• The Em Dash Divides: Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?
  By Kate Mooney @yatinbrooklyn
• A teen girl posed for 8 years as married man to write about baseball and harass women.
  By @LindseyAdler
• Black motherhood on TV has never been so nuanced
  By Kellee Terrell @kelleent
• If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? (an excerpt from “Rebooting AI”)
  By @GaryMarcus and Ernest Davis
  (via @@nxthompson)
• The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS
  By Luke Mogelson
• .@Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
  By @MaureenOCo nnor

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Why not us?

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 29 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me