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January 20, 2017

Links Roundup 01/20/17

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  • Marissa Lingen has a lovely essay up in the new journal Reckoning: How Far Are We From Minneapolis?
  • Code-switching and linguistic acrobatics on the internet
  • Academic slapfights are the best: Why language is not everything that Noam Chomsky said it is
  • Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’?
  • Martha Matilda Harper: The Greatest Businesswoman You’ve Never Heard Of
  • Just how smart is an octopus?
  • An only slightly tedious essay about what a boring person Wallace Stevens was: The Detached Poet
  • Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, reviewed. I always find it so interesting that these projects never seem to talk to genre writers.
  • While this is interesting, I find myself irritated by the erasure of the human labor that has made floor coverings throughout history: Carpet History: How Fabric Flooring Went Wall-to-Wall
  • Miss Fisher and the Female Gaze Great analysis of why Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries are so wonderful.
  • Liz Barr’s cat is problematic. He’s also very handsome.
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering in a Post-Apocalyptic World
  • This series of tweets by Sigrid Ellis gave me a little glimmer of hope. They might do that for you, too.


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  1. I_Sell_Books says

    January 21, 2017 at 10:10 am

    That article on language is absolutely fascinating!

    Thanks for this post, too. I…finally told my fb feed that they can tag me with funny and interesting things, because my anxiety is so high that I just can’t scroll. As I suspect many of your readers know, panic attacks of any variety (yesterday mine lasted 5 hours) sucketh mightily. I’m on a near total news blackout, and suspect I will be for a very long time. On the plus (?) side, I am now Very Familiar with all the current pop songs on the radio, and even my car’s cd player (don’t look at me like that, my cell phone can’t use data services because rural ‘Murica) – yes, the one that eats cds, is getting a hefty workout these days.

  2. Natalie Luhrs says

    January 21, 2017 at 10:15 am

    @I_Sell_Books: I’m on a near total news blackout myself and have been since late November. I check in occasionally and I get a couple of newsletters that keep me reasonably up to date with what I need to be calling my reps about and that’s about it. I listen to a public radio station that is light on news and heavy on music in the car so I know where you’re coming from. I thought about making this post nothing but kitten pictures and videos, to be honest. Being informed is important, but so is staying sane. I hope your anxiety gets down to a manageable level soon.

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