Happy Sunday, friends, and welcome back to the third-for-me-but-fourth-overall Something on Sunday! I missed last week due to travel plans and being lazy, but from NOW ON there will be ALWAYS a Something on Sunday for y’all lovely people to splash around in. Here’s what I’ve got. Intisar Khanani, an author I adore and cherish, has landed a two-book deal with Harper Teen. They’ll be reissuing her book Thorn, a marvelous retelling of “The Goose Girl,” and she’ll be writing a companion novel to go with it, tentatively called A Theft of Sunlight. Intisar Khanani seems like a truly lovely…
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You should buy the Hamilton cast recording: A links round-up
Published 25 Sep 2015
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Gin Jenny
If you haven’t yet listened to the Hamilton cast recording, you are not living your best life. It’s out today for digital download, and you should buy it. As of this posting, you can also stream it on NPR First Listen. Did you miss my linguistics nerdery? Great news: Here’s an article about how language shapes our brains. Jenny Zhang on being a writer of color and the Best American Poetry mess. If you like Return of the Jedi but hate the Ewoks, you understand feminist criticism. Remembering to use a trans person’s preferred pronouns is no harder than remembering…
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