You’re reading Read Max, a twice-weekly newsletter that tries to explain the future to normal people. Read Max is supported entirely by paying subscribers. If you like it, find it useful, and want to support its mission, please upgrade to a paid subscription! Help us help you (find holiday gifts and other knick-knacks)New Read Max subscriber benefit: Personalized gift/knick-knack/item searchGreetings from Read Max HQ! As longtime readers know, in addition to being the editor/author of this newsletter, the 2011 winner of Village Voice “Best Personal Tumblr” award, etc., I (Max) am a small-business owner, and in this capacity I am always looking to make use of a core small-business strategy, to wit, exploiting my immediate family for labor. To this end, for many years now I have been wheedling and pleading with my wife, Ari, (pictured above) to contribute some writing to this newsletter, rooted, ideally, in her three main hobbies: (1) reading intimidating literature in translation; (2) hunting down tasteful, unique, and sometimes even affordable furniture and other home goods; and (3) unearthing and consuming streaming-platform documentaries about scandals, cults, crime, etc. My campaign seems to have finally paid off. Ari has (vaguely) agreed to write a semi-regular reading-recommendation column. (Stay tuned!) More immediately--and even better to the knick-knack-appreciating perverts among you--she’s agreed to co-author the upcoming Read Max Gift Guide. (In your inbox soon!) Best of all, though, she’s volunteered to help you--Read Max paid subscriber¹--solve your own home-goods problems. I’ll let her introduce the proposition herself:
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