Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales shares her weekend plans, including where to find some of her favorite classic movies.
Beloved Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales is back and better than ever with her new book on sex and dating in the digital age called Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno. We’ll be publishing an in-depth interview with Sales very soon, but in the meantime we asked her to share her Weekend Whats with us…and for anyone who’s looking for a summer alternative to “stretchy pants,” you will not be disappointed.
What to watch: You can’t go wrong with the Criterion Channel, which costs about the same as other streaming services. Just about every movie on it is amazing. Right now they’re having a festival of neo-noir, and I am a huge noir fan in general, so I’m so down for this. My daughter and I have already watched the sizzling The Last Seduction with the great Linda Fiorentino, and this weekend we’re planning on seeing the ’70s cult classic The Eyes of Laura Mars with Faye Dunaway.
What to cook: I got tired of spending so much money on our Seamless bill, getting takeout from our favorite Chinese place, so I learned to cook rice noodles with chicken and vegetables myself. It’s easy. Make sure you slice the chicken thin and add a dash of peanut oil as well as chopped-up scrambled eggs. Celery and scallions help give it an authentic flavor. And don’t cook the rice noodles too long.
What to listen to: Listen to my Spotify playlist for my new book Nothing Personal. It’s a playlist of songs about falling in love and getting over heartbreak, sort of the playlist to my romantic life from the 1970s to today. Everything from Lauryn Hill to the Go-Gos to Chaka Khan.
What to wear: The pandemic has made it OK to spend your days in what Nacho Libre called “stretchy pants.” But now that summer’s raging, the stretchy pants are too hot! I’ve been lounging in my favorite boy shorts of all time, Women’s Comfortable Cotton Bike Yoga Boxer Brief Boyshort, which I got on Amazon. They’re cheap and cute with a T-shirt.
What to read: I just finished re-reading Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and it blew me away. Also, Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, which came out this spring, was so powerful, just devastating.
