Well, well, well, another week gone, and another week closer to Thanksgiving, a time at which I hope we can all look forward to having a few days of goddamn peace and quiet. Events keep flying at my head at very high speed, despite the fact that I have clearly stated in writing that I don’t want things to happen very suddenly. I want none things to happen! At slow speeds! My position on this has been clear from the beginning! However, since that seems not to be in the cards for me or for anyone, I am enjoying the…
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OMG I am highly blessed and favored, y’all. Literally as I was writing this post, I was complaining internally about the fact that it’s the middle of July and still no second-half-of-2021 book preview from The Millions. I was like, “Forget ‘I love television,’ I’m going to use the subject of this post to bitch about the fact that the lengthy and clearly labor-intensive book preview has not dropped,” and as I was thinking about a pithy way to bitch about that, I opened The Millions to double-check and you will never guess what happened! YES THAT IS RIGHT IT…
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 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…
Leave a CommentOops, the holidays happened and I forgot to post links round-ups. I know you have all been suffering terribly without them. My hope is that you improved the shining hour by catching up on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Good Place, my two favorite shows on TV. But if you just moped around a-waiting, here’s the goods at last. Black women have largely been left out of the conversation about harassment (quelle surprise). Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience of racist belittlement from Charlie Rose. On the state of Kentucky and the borders of the South. Gillian Flynn writes about how…
9 CommentsOkay, full disclosure, in a bid to make my watch of Black Sails last longer, I have been reading a lot of pirate books in the evenings. I checked out I think fifteen of them from my library, and that’s not counting the ones I own from the last time I got interested in pirates. So I haven’t had as much time to compile links for you. I’ve made up for it by including the very very best links. First up, the Book Smugglers are running a Kickstarter so that they can continue to do what they do and pay…
14 CommentsManuel Gonzales NK Jemisin Nicole Chung Mira Jacob Masha Gessen Vann R. Newkirk II Rebecca Traister Rembert Browne Nikole Hannah-Jones Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham A whole bunch of writers of many genres Stay safe, guys.
11 CommentsI don’t know what to say about the hate crime against queer people of color in Orlando this past weekend. I won’t say the killer’s name because we know that intense coverage of these guys inspires copycats do to the same. Instead I want to link to NPR’s article about the people who were murdered. Here also is a round-up from NPR’s Code Switch of responses from queer Latinx folks. The element of the fantastical in The Boxcar Children is their coherence to a Protestant work ethic. I am THE MOST susceptible to this kind of sadness. Just read enough…
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