Honestly, 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…
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We 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…
Leave a CommentTo Tell the Truth Freely was published in 2009, a biography of a journalist and activist who died in 1931, and its applicability to modern-day politics is so acute that I tore through it at warp speed. Her political milieu is described as “a time when the Democrats were increasingly billing themselves as the party of white supremacy and the Republicans had largely abandoned any commitment to racial justice in favor of an alliance with big business.” I defy you not to shudder when you read that. Though Wells’s biographer repeatedly emphasizes her subject’s temper (and intemperance), it’s clear that…
Leave a CommentRemember that series on The Toast, Children’s Stories Made Horrifying? Where you would be like, hmm, but that story is already kind of horrifying, and then you’d read the piece and be like, “Ah.” Bob Proehl’s sophomore novel, The Nobody People, is X-Men Made Horrifying. Journalist Avi Hirsch is our way in to this story: An adrenaline junkie who’s done his best to settle down for his wife and kid, Avi is pursuing two seemingly unrelated stories, a bombing at a mall and another at a local black church. He learns that the man responsible has special powers, that there…
Leave a CommentIt’s Friday! Or, described to align more closely with my experience of this week, Monday Part Five. (That is a joke I cribbed from my brother-in-law, so please enjoy it and praise me as if I had coined it myself.) Litrally nothing has happened this entire week. Only time has passed, at an agonizingly slow rate. What is time? What is truth and goodness? Is there a future? I don’t know, and neither do you! To distract us from the existential dread we all feel, here are some links! Advice on how to dress professionally hits marginalized women so, so…
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