Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Literacy 2021: Book 20: Circe
or, “Defying Odyssey,” Madeline Miller’s wicked re-interpretation of the story of literature’s first witch
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Movie List Monday: My 10 Favorites (For Now)
One of the things I miss the most as I gradually ween myself from social media: all the fun and pointless list-making! When I deleted my old Instagram account, I was in the middle of a month-long thing where you’d post a screenshot from a movie in a particular category each day. Because I got…
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Literacy 2021: Book 19: Goldenrod
An excellent poetry collection by Maggie Smith
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Literacy 2021: Book 18: Longitude
Dava Sobel’s account of the efforts to calculate longitude at sea
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One Thing I Like About The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad feels like a faithful adaptation of a Vertigo comic series that doesn’t exist
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Literacy 2021: Book 17: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
This horror novel by Grady Hendrix is a lot better than its premise might suggest
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Literacy 2021: Book 16: Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s comic series about people whose orgasms stop time.
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Literacy 2021: Book 15: Devolution
Max Brooks applies his World War Z style to Sasquatches instead of zombies
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Ain’t No Brother Like the KID
In honor of Biz Markie, two tracks from one of my favorite albums.
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Literacy 2021: Book 14: The Caledonian Gambit
A cold-war sci-fi novel by Dan Moren
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Groovies
If ever this country needed Cartoon Network to be cool again, that time is now
