Bye, my friends. Thanks for everything.

My mom makes a manchego rice dish with dried sour cherries (the kind you get at Trader Joe's) and I could eat an entire pot of it in one sitting. I'm pretty sure it's just onions sauteed in butter in the rice pot, then toast the rice briefly with the onions, then add water and cook the rice, then before serving add HEALTHY serving of grated cheese, cherries, and parsley.

Favorite part of Lemonade was the night stage with the bowls of fire and Bey and Michaela DePrince surrounded by the beautiful women in white, including the mothers of the lost boys. The visual itself brought tears to my eyes and then the woman Mardi Gras Indian casting some sort of magic over the empty place settings just made me lose it.

That picture makes my heart swell with emotion! Fried pickles in bed, imagine!

I have feelings about Trey from Broad City! Spoilersish below if you're not caught up.

I'm so mad at Abbi! No one is obligated to be in a relationship they're not fully invested in, but use your words! Poor Trey's little fist pump when she faked "getting emotional about us" was so sad. Kirk Steele deserves better.

Grandma stocked a few Vienettas for our yearly visits. Grandma was great.

It is completely awful and I hate that judge and that jury BUT there was a comment on the article on The Cut about Carmichael's appointment that was so delightfully savage and I was ::eyeball emojis:: for days. Gawker is the worst. http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/jury-asks-if-jeze...

I was AlScorcho98 for the longest time. Woof.

This is such a great article and echoes conversations I've had with colleagues and friends in the industry. It's a complicated problem. I will self-interestedly say that I hope readers will look to diverse authors and books wherever they may come from--not just small presses. The big 5, as you said, respond to $$$. If you want to see more diversity in the frontlist, buy the kind of books you'd like to see more of--it makes it that much easier for the next one to get through the acquisitions process to publication.

Hi, big 5 editor here. The salary thing is different depending on the dept. In my experience, if you're marketing or publicity, you're going to move up quickly and the money gets okay within your 5-7 year range. You're still going to be able to make better pay in almost any other industry, but if you stick with it, I've seen people hit associate director or director within 10-15 years.

Editorial is the crux of the problem, I think. The salaries are low and they stay low for a looooong time. And, yes, a lot of people get pushed out either bc of the money or bc it's incredibly competitive--very few assistants rise to editor at the same house, there just aren't enough positions to go around. You usually have to move out to move up. And these are the people who are identifying the projects for acquisition. So even though the executives hold the purse strings, a lot of it comes down to the editorial staff, who have been winnowed to the people who were able to take an unpaid internship in the first place, can stick out the early years with very low pay, have had several lucky breaks along the way, and keep their p&ls healthy (usually by not taking on too many risky projects) so they're not on the chopping block during the inevitable next round of layoffs. *For an added layer of terrible: those lucky breaks seem to come fast and furious for the very small number of male editors.

No worries at all--hope you find the best, snuggliest cat!