Oops, I let many years pass since my last links round-up, and you have all been deprived of the best links on all the internet. I am sorry for this long hiatus, and I bring you here what I hope is a particularly stellar collection of links. As we head into Mardi Gras weekend, I hope your personal bon temps are roulezing away! Catch some beads! Drink some beer! Here’s the definitive update on the indie romance writer who faked her own death. It is, perhaps not unexpectedly, a pretty sad story. On the resemblance of dinner to a magic…
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It’s Friday! And not to tip my hand, but I have a favorite from among my links today, and I’m putting my favorite link first, and hopefully you too will enjoy it as I did. It’s about those mystery seeds. Remember those mystery seeds? From last year? A bunch of people started getting mysterious seeds in the mail, from China, and then it was like, aaaa, where are these seeds even coming from? Why is China sending people seeds? WHAT GIVES? The answer may surprise you. Have some links. The China seeds mystery, solved. (link) IDK maybe we shouldn’t have…
Leave a CommentLast week I was reading a bunch of things where people said that quarantinaversary was going to be very hard for everyone so we should go easy on ourselves, and I was like, la la la, I’m doing amazing, I’m not even slightly having a hard time, I have escaped the trauma of quarantinaversary. And then this week came along, and my brain now comprises a (1) scrambled egg. Pride goeth before a fall! All of this to say, please be gentle with yourself if you’re having a hard time right now. Here are some links! Gabrielle Bellot writes about…
Leave a CommentWelp! Things are very cold here! And everything is awful! 2021 just won’t stop doing things — in this case, dumping a ton of ice on a bunch of places not structurally equipped to deal with ice or extreme cold! If you would like to be of service, Southwest Louisiana has been absolutely slammed by weather in the past few months, and this is a mutual aid organization that continues to supply aid to people who were hit by Hurricane Laura, and then Hurricane Zeta, and now this ice storm. So now here are some links! What I learned in…
Leave a CommentThe NPR! Book! Concierge! Has arrived! It has arrived to gladden our days. I have been parceling it out to myself bit by bit to make it last, because NPR Book Concierge comes but once a year. When I have gone all the way through it, I will not have it again for so many years. Here it is (link). Be blessed with its bounty. Watch Ted Lasso, please. I beg you will watch Ted Lasso. I am saying this for your own good, because I want you to feel positive emotions in your life, and frankly where else can…
Leave a CommentMy first link is from The Boston Review, and I just think it’s a good time to appreciate The Boston Review for all the terrific, interesting, thoughtful writing that it publishes. Great job, editors. Keep up the good work. You are doing brilliantly. “To celebrate what was good and criticize what was lacking in the American Revolution were two sides of the same civic coin. Both were necessary for political reasons, but not least because both were true.” On the historians’ debate over The 1619 Project. To nobody’s surprise, the Catholic Church continues to resist transparency on child abuse by…
1 CommentThere are haunted dolls in this links round-up. Happy Friday; you deserve it. “Perhaps you had better stay in the womb, I think, just to be safe.” Alexandra Petri on The News. Bret Stephens continues to be a dingbat. Jay Fernandez identifies a few common mistakes that book reviewers make. (Some of this is nonsense! But it’s still interesting.) The final book in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy is coming out in 2020! AT LAST I can read Bring Up the Bodies! Here’s Mikki Kendall talking about how not all harassment is sexual (though it is also sexual!) On not…
Leave a CommentWELP I have gotten behind on my links, which means a bunch of these are old. On the other hand, the passage of time has lost all meaning and the news cycle is now 3.2 seconds, so the important thing is probably just that I included some snails in dollhouses for y’all’s Friday. Have a wonderful weekend! These are just some motherfucking snails inside some motherfucking dollhouses. Why casting Nagini as an Asian woman is so offensive. Ron Charles considers whether we still need Banned Books Week, and reaches no real conclusion. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a writer I adore, talks about…
1 CommentWell, the end of August is finally here, and you know what that means: FOOTBALL IS COMING BACK. Admittedly I have mixed and complicated feelings about both college and professional football, but I also really love watching it. So, uh, yeah. I have reached no conclusions on this matter. Meanwhile, have some links; autumn is coming. This article on fanfiction’s rebranding in the past few years is excellent, and features Naomi Novik saying many intelligent things. What it’s like for women who flee North Korea. The librarians who track down the books their patrons only sort of remember. Since I…
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