Entertainment

Sophia Bush made a plea for girls to have access to education across the globe, while both Piper Perabo and Imagine Dragons’s Dan Reynolds advocated for support for refugees.

Veep actress Lennon Parham reflected on what it’s like to have a baby in Hollywood.

Fall Out Boy announced their new tour.

Comedian Sara Schaefer wrote an open letter to “hipster Jesus.”

Manager and producer George Ruiz explained his Instagram account.

Jeff Maysh’s story about the the Los Feliz Murder Mansion is being developed for film.

Media/tech/business

Amazon’s Jay Carney rebutted the New York Times article on the company, to which Times executive editor Dean Baquet responded (eliciting a further response from Carney).

Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger looked back on the company’s first five years.

Executive Communications Manager for Facebook Dex Torricke-Barton analyzed how the internet is uniting the world.

Wharton professor Adam Grant shared his insights about communication.

Politics

Check out the Roundup for the latest, including David Plouffe’s endorsement of Hilary Clinton and activist DeRay Mckesson’s reflection on meeting Bernie Sanders and Clinton.

Policy

Chelsea Manning started a series of posts about transitioning in prison, and Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Ricardo Salvador, and Olivier De Schutter called for a national food policy.

Books

Sloane Crosley published an excerpt of her debut novel, which drew responses from Twitter’s former head of product, Michael Sippey; Google Ventures’s M.G. Siegler, Kickstarter’s Maris Kreizman, and editor Ed Park.

sarah knight revealed the cover of her forthcoming book from Little, Brown.

Markle Foundation president Zoë Baird published an excerpt on economic opportunity from her new book.

Julia Pimsleur convened a digital roundtable on her book topic, women raising capital.

Medium publications

Matter launched a crowd-sourced investigation to find a missing boat with 243 people on board.

We debuted a new conversation series, You Tell Me, on Backchannel, with Steven Levy convening a discussion about age diversity in tech.

Check out our list of 100 most recommended stories of October.