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Best of May 2024

(bit late on/for this one, oops. StokerCon ate my weekend, and a lot of my brain. Just now surfacing again) — "Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole." [image or embed] — Stephen Hopkins (@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social) May 21, […]

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https://www.living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/susanna-clarke-alan-moore https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2024/new-orleans-police-child-sexual-abuse-rodney-vicknair Cavaliers’ J.B. Bickerstaff says he’s been threatened by gamblers – ESPN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/entertainment/kevin-bacon-footloose-high-school-prom/index.html https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-be-a-mysterious-woman-who-is-also-in-bed-by-930-pm https://filmschoolrejects.com/godzilla-legacy/?amp Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 208 The Paris Review – A Conversation with Louise Erdrich – The Paris Review https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/wolves-sterling-holywhitemountain Maximum Overdrive — Grady Hendrix TCR Talks with Travis Burkett, author of An American Band –

Best reads from lately

Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines

Best reads from lately

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/10/02/cu-boulder-announces-native-american-affairs-associate-vice-chancellor Confusing Haunted Maze Fails To Explain Narratively Why Someone Would Jump Out From Corner Screaming https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Corpus-Christi-woman-making-waves-with-Halloween-211681.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogxim-first-dog-fox-hybrid https://x.com/chris_moliere/status/1711465188900429949?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html https://www.longmontleader.com/local-news/beyond-local-the-scariest-part-of-halloween-may-be-costume-contact-lenses-an-eye-doctor-says-7713194 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ Shock of the new: Jordan Peele, Mariana Enríquez and more on the horror fiction renaissance | Horror books | The Guardian

Best of 2018

wow, THIS in Drafts as well. looks like it’s what I meant to by my Best of 2018, but then forgot I’d started it, so did it all over. Novel: The Outsider NF: Atlas of a Lost World, Close Encounters with Humankind, The Neanderthals Rediscovered  Non-Horror Movie: The Rider  Slasher: The Strangers: Prey at Night,

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https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-2-1235507813/ Who made the first stone tools? Discovery sheds light on mystery | CNN https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2023/01/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-old-white.html Neanderthal genes may have helped early humans adapt to differences in Eurasian daylight hours https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-did-neanderthals-hunt https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/world/maya-civilization-causeways-lidar-discovery-scn/index.html Cruise ship stumbles on a rare sight: a gathering of 1,000 whales https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-you-give-a-bear-cocaine https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/severe-weather-coverage-for-sunday-february-26/

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Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/encino-man-oral-history https://mashable.com/article/snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska-why https://www.gq.com/story/dont-fear-the-reaper-more-cowbell-oral-history https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846 Scientists Might Have Just Found Where Cannabis Originally Came From : ScienceAlert Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects millions. Why isn’t the medical profession paying more attention? | CNN Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the

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Best of 2021

Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db5qa/hunter-brittain-arkansas-teen-holding-antifreeze-shot-killed-sheriffs-deputy https://scroll.in/article/998630/a-new-extinct-human-species-found-in-china-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our-closest-relatives https://www.businessinsider.com/female-lawyers-dress-codes-law-firm-court-discrimination-sexism-2021-6 Neanderthals engraved a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago – CNN Inside the Imagination of Ellen Datlow – Mythaxis Review https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/10/trauma-began-us-faces-reckoning-native-american-boarding-school/ https://worldnewsera.com/news/politics/this-governor-withdrew-from-a-climate-pact-days-later-hes-pleading-for-help-with-drought/ Opinion: What the GOP is really after in Texas | CNN https://www.gq.com/story/jason-sudeikis-august-cover-profile https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/national-park-sued-for-starving-152-elk-to-death Russia’s permafrost is thawing – and it could make melting polar ice caps look like a

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-29/larry-mcmurtry-early-work-obliterated-western-cliches ‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Trollhunter,’ and the Birth of Found Footage Monster Movies https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-surviving-wood-sculpture-even-older-previously-thought-180977320/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-school-shooting-that-austin-forgot/ https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/star-wars-george-lucas-marcia-editor-wife-15991031.php https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Broke-in-the-D-League-Why-my-NBA-dress-code-16064235.php https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/sf-movie-theater-reopening-godzilla-amc-16070767.php https://rifnote.com/2021/04/03/crystals-found-in-kalahari-desert-challenge-assumptions-about-where-in-africa-human-culture-arose/ https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/bbc-three-comedy-horror-series-wrecked-1234940633/

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