If you’re a member of the Authors Guild (and if you’re a writer you should be) you’ve already received this news as the first story in the July 31st newsletter, but just in case: Click through here or the image above to read the whole piece but here’s the heart of it: What Happens Next…
A book I should have read in the Women’s History class that was never offered at UAF, or at least not while I was there. In 1890 Dr. Mary [Mollie] Babcock Moore decides that she’d rather work for herself than for her husband. She had good cause. …it wasn’t long after she started working with…
Read more Clearly she was going to have to defend her status as a single woman and a doctor here.
I remember seeing the animated Aladdin in the theater, laughing so hard and so continuously my sides literally ached, and wondering later how on earth the animators’ pencils managed to keep up with Robin Williams’ mouth. “We had a script,” one of them says at the beginning of this video, a little despairingly. (h/t Laughing…
Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “shay”), yet another magical place in these United States. I was lucky enough to visit there in 2012. Canyon de Chelly is not Chaco Canyon, but I’m using it as a way into this story: Quote: “…the Trump administration’s plans to rescind a 10-mile buffer zone barring drilling and mineral extraction…
The Rock Garden The Duchess’s Garden Meanwhile, inside the kitchen window… But it was a good little producer while it lasted!
From the Brooklyn Public Library’s website: Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist. Organized by genre and category of interest, this all-ages list is a deep dive on the stories, voices and moments that shaped America. Selected by our expert librarians—with…
[Reposting this because of all the hoohah about The Odyssey. Penelope’s voice is every bit as important as her husband’s (and I would argue far more worthy of listening to than any nasty thing their son has to say) and Claire North’s trilogy is inspired, hilarious, heartbreaking, and mesmerizing. Prepare to binge.] This is the…
Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) I’m an optimist for the most part, not a doom-and-gloomer, but I also read history for fun. Hard to ignore the parallels between 1929 and 2026. (Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250.) Quote: “Dishearteningly, but perhaps inevitably, [the priest] began to speak of the Great Replacement Theory. ‘There are places where…
An excerpt… “Guns are noisy and smelly and too often it takes too long for the guy that gets shot to die. Now, a knife to the throat, if the guy who’s holding it knows what he’s doing, is quick and quiet and so long as you stay out of range…
