Given that I revived this series in part because of AO3’s Hugo win, I was extra-thrilled when 2019 Hugo winner Zen Cho agreed to participate! And you should absolutely read her Hugo-winning novelette, “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” which is a dear and lovely story that I adored. How did you get into fanfic? Do you remember the first fandoms you read/wrote in? We got a computer when I was 9 and the first thing I did was go online and look to see if there were any books by L. M. Montgomery that I could…
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Once again we have made it through another week, and this time the weary week has done us a solid by leading us into October. The best of months! Welcome, October, we have been wishing for you. If you measure this week by hours, it has been the normal length, but if you measure it (and this is the trick) by presidential crimes openly committed, it has been ten thousand eons. I did get to play Untitled Goose Game this week, though. So at least there’s that. Anyway, here are some links for you! Call off the dogs; the best…
Leave a CommentSomehow it is October, and though many months of the year have passed, we are ever more convinced that linear time is a collective hallucination. We hope that you are experiencing Autumn, and we welcome in the settingsiest time of year by chatting about our thoughts on book settings. (I am opposed to them, and Whiskey Jenny is in favor.) In this podcast, we welcome the marvelous Ashley Wells, whom we do love but whom I invited to the podcast to punish her for forcing me to read this goddamn Irish book. She made us a game!!! We haven’t had…
Leave a CommentHello, hello! Have you missed me? I have not been telling you about short fiction lately, but I am inspired by the start of a new semester to resume my short fiction reading, even though semesters are meaningless in my life now that I am no longer (thank God) in school. Suitably, though, I am starting with a kind of story that I’m a sucker for, the kind that is written like a pretend piece of scholarship. You know the way to my heart, M. E. Bronstein. “Elegy of a Lanthornist,” by M. E. Bronstein (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 6700 words)…
Leave a CommentHonestly, it’s kind of weird. Why do I have so many links to things that dudes wrote? This isn’t like me at all. WHO AM I. WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN. (Don’t worry, y’all, there’s still lots of things that women wrote, because I’m still me and women write amazing things.) Anyway, here are a bunch of links, two of which are about copyright and estate drama, which I adore. Enjoy! Jerry Falwell Jr. runs Liberty University like a dictator. I am SO obsessed with weird shit around writers’ estates and who controls the rights to a writer’s work and…
Leave a CommentWe are back after an unscheduled hiatus to commence the 2019 Hatening, wherein I Haten Whiskey Jenny incredibly successfully — even more successfully, if you can believe such a thing, as the year I forced her to read The Easter Parade. But it’s all in good fun, as mainly we are just really elated to be back podcasting together. We missed it! And you! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 122 I say this in the podcast, but please accept content warnings for…
Leave a CommentHands up everyone who read Freshwater and thought “When will Emezi grace us with a YA novel? That is clearly their metier.” Because I freely admit that I was not among your number. Freshwater was one of my best reads of 2018 — the writing was brutal and gorgeous, and I felt elated to be reading the debut of an author of Emezi’s talent, and to know that they had a whole writing career ahead of them and I would get to read all those books. But still, when I saw the announcement that Emezi would be releasing a YA…
Leave a CommentIn an effort to appear Current, I am putting a more Current link at the top of this links round-up but it will quickly become apparent that a lot of these are old links because I forgot to post my links round-ups in a timely manner, and I am sorry. I have no excuse except that I just forgot about it on Thursday. Here’s a history of all the times New York Times opinion columnists wrote opinion columns about how unkind the internet is to New York Times opinion columnists. THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO…
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