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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 EnrÃquez 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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https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/brandon-sanderson-kickstarter-criticism-why-writers-are-upset-about-his-record-setting-campaign.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/entertainment/marvel-king-conan-matoaka-pocahontas-cec/index.html Oldest-known octopus relative lived 328 million years ago and had 10 arms – CNN ‘X’ Review: The Rare ‘Chain Saw’ Homage That Earns Its Fear – Variety Why revive Harry Crews, author who bridged new and old South – Los Angeles Times I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My
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
Independent Bookstore Day 2021
Here I am hanging with Boulder Bookstore and Pam Houston, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine:
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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/
Best of 2021 so far: for January
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
Best Stuff I Found in 2020
Gonna do this fast, here, as, when I take time and mull, this annual post just gets longer and longer—me, trying to include everything. So, before I can think too much, dig back too much, and probably including stuff I should have caught in 2019, or 2002: Novel(s) of the Year Comic Book of the
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/europe/woolly-rhino-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park – CNN https://apple.news/ARN2f6fEDR8GHQJucqUfIwQ https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-your-university-president-reminding-you-that-you-have-until-september-14th-to-infect-someone-in-our-college-town-with-covid https://film.avclub.com/the-new-mutants-finally-opens-this-week-here-s-why-we-1844833667 https://apple.news/Abymo8M4QR7qTNQyLpHCcoQ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story Globe Book Club: Why are there so few Indigenous crime writers? It’s no mystery – The Globe and Mail http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/06/making-franchise-friday-13th-part-2.html Personal Canons: Warren Ellis – Here’s The Thing https://apple.news/A4XFWO_dMRrCqIgl31JOUVQ https://tv.avclub.com/when-one-sketch-flopped-two-words-saved-the-state-mo-1798265654 https://apple.news/AuGNyLfe6RMq3JV9IWXHJ1A https://apple.news/AsdIqsrWPQSiFsNQjOt6I-w https://apple.news/AQ98ST7FXRLajkLPWqwNAYQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-platypus-evolution-science/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-lubbock-born-country-musician-mac-davis/ I Love Paulette Jiles’s Novels.