Comments on: Fantastic Girls and Gilmore Beasts: A Links Round-Up

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:16:00 +0000

I loved every one one of these links this time. So much good stuff - the post-election stuff was especially powerful, as was the HP fandom one. I have definitely been on the fence about the series expansion and have yet to see Magical Beasts or read The Cursed Child.

By: Read Diverse Books

Read Diverse Books — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:39:00 +0000

The piece on famous black Sci-fi writers was really interesting. There several writers, but few have reached mainstream fame. Everyone always name-drops Jemisin, Okorafor, Hopkinson, Butler. But we need many more. Thankfully, we have new voices like Victor Lavalle & Daniel Jose Older who will continue to write and innovate as well. I’m pretty excited for the future of speculative fiction.

By: Aarti

Aarti — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:58:00 +0000

Ooh, I am clicking through on almost all the links! Especially the Traister ones, I just finished my review of her book today 🙂

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 19:49:00 +0000

I was initially very interested in reading Hillbilly Elegy when I first heard of it, but the more I read reviews and reactions like the one you linked to, the more I’m inclined to put it off. I like how Thomason says “The accident of Vance’s success is that he published his memoir about “a
culture in crisis” at precisely the moment that Trump’s election has
forged a national consensus that such a crisis exists. And, to
paraphrase Milton Friedman, the ideas that get picked up in a time of
crisis are the ones that are lying around.”
The article on the history of political correctness and the current employment of it as a boogeyman was really good as well.

By: Akilah

Akilah — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 02:01:00 +0000

Thanks for the Buzzfeed link. Some excellent recs there.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:51:00 +0000

I have to work on Sunday, and I’m “half-time.”
The article on HP fandom is interesting (I hate the part where they say “If you look around the pop-cultural landscape, it’s clear we’re in the era of the un-death”). After we went to see Fantastic Beasts, Eleanor was saying that she and her group of grad school friends were all disturbed by the final scene, in which witches and wizards go around righting toppled buildings and restoring NYC to its pre-disaster state. To them, the HP world is real and they ask “what does that say about the wizarding community now? They were two busy to right the twin towers?”

By: Stefanie@SoManyBooks

Stefanie@SoManyBooks — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:56:00 +0000

Excellent links as always!