Jan
05
2020 in Book Reviews
All the books I reviewed in 2020, from which I distil 9 faves
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Amal El-Mohtar
Dec
21
Winter Solstice, 2020
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Dec
11
Friday Open Thread (with Release)
Dear Friends,
For weeks I’ve been labouring over a Big Important Job Application (for
“labouring” read “unproductively stressing”), but
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Dec
10
Brooklyn Book Festival Event: In Conversation with Arkady Martine!
Tonight, 8PM EST!
Dec
04
Friday Open Thread (with Review)
Dear Friends,
I’ve missed so many Fridays! A colleague once said to me “November is a bear,”
and didn’
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Dec
02
Letter of News: Reviews, Can*Phemera, Time War Deals
Dear Readers,
November is past! December is here! What times, what a time, what is time.
December is my birthday
4 min read
Nov
09
Letter of News: Ignyte, Illumicrate, Otherworldly, and a Chat with C. L. Polk
Dear Readers,
It’s been a while! In the last Letter of News
[/letter-of-news-podcasts-awards-readings/] I’d not yet moved house,
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Nov
06
Friday Open Thread (with Birds)
Dear Friends,
A brief question today: do you have an especially beloved, especially admired,
especially associated-with kind of bird?
I
Nov
03
Poem for a November Evening
My husband’s been making himself a good audio rig in the new place, and we’ve
been experimenting with
Oct
30
Friday Open Thread (with October's end)
Dear Friends,
This whole month I’ve been taking stock of what October means to me — how bright
are its
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