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Get your sunblock, bikini, and beach reads ready! This week, Alyssa sits down with Sophia June, writer and co-founder of the Language Arts Substack, to go deep on this summer’s biggest fashion-adjacent trend: literature. Sophia breaks down what it was like to be at the center of the recent Literary It Girl discourse on Twitter, how big industry names like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, and Marc Jacobs have turned book selfies into the ultimate signifier of good taste, why digital book clubs (including Kaia Gerber’s stellar Library Science) are such a valuable platform for emerging authors, whether book curators are the newest iteration of stylists, the parallels between BookTok and fashion influencing, the logic behind authors’ partnerships with brands, the pros and cons of Miu Miu’s international Summer Reads activation, and why, in many ways, books are the pinnacle of luxury.