Weekend reads: Week of February 7, 2025

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog last week but thought were worth highlighting.

• How American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman became the ultimate “sigma male" (Vox) 

• Rain Man for Millennials and other adventures in ableism with Sally Rooney (Disability Visibility Project) 

• Freida McFadden and the twist machine (Slate)

• What are book blurbs and how much do they matter in publishing? (The New York Times) 

• Patricia Zipprodt’s legendary costume designs — in pictures (The Guardian)

• Is the book you're reading literary or genre fiction? (Electric Literature)