Forest Scent, Pavel Bautin. Russia. 2010 IAPLC Grand Prize Winner
- 8 Reasons Why The Rent Is Too Damn High
- The Murderer and the Manuscript
- Travers (author of Mary Poppins): “I lived with the Indians…”
- Bullet Journal: An analog note-taking system for the digital age This is interesting but it feels a bit, ah, hipster PDA-ish for my taste.
- Writing hacks: what you don’t get for free This struck me as a really interesting perspective on writing and craft.
- West Virginia spill is a perfect demonstration of externalized costs Yyyyyep.
- I’m From West Virginia and I’ve Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill
- Chris Christie And Pulling The Red Handle
- Death threats for researcher who demonstrated college athletes read below a third-grade level
- Twitter Regret: First Thought, Worst Thought
- When Does Finishing In Third Place NOT Get You An Olympic Spot? Oh, ice skating.
- The 4 Normal Guys Who Just Happen to Be Olympic Curlers
- Man Poses as Woman on Online Dating Site; Barely Lasts Two Hours
- Seeming Female: Gender In Digital Spaces
- Why I Think Author Eligibility Posts Are Selfish, Destructive And Counter-Productive Of course you do, dude. Of course you do.
- Luckily, Jenny decided to take that particular argument apart: Award Eligibility and What Makes A Reader. And Cora Buhlert weighs in as well: More on the 2014 Hugo nomination dust-up.
- “We don’t need no stinking codes of conduct” may have been a better title for this piece instead of this: ALA’s Code of Conduct.
- Dear Westin Chicago River North: You Have Chosen… Poorly This is the most comprehensive account of the Chi-Fi Con cancellation I’ve seen. Lots of updates at the end.
- Oh, Paul Kemp. You scamp: Why I write masculine stories. Rebuttals: This, again and Women and Gentlemen: On Unmasking the Sobering Reality of Hyper-Masculine Characters
- Justin Landon has a great article about whether or not people who are very successful in the SFF community are given a free pass when it comes to saying gross things on Reddit.
- It Is Expensive to Be Poor
- No Longer Human Content warning: forced birth, disregard of DNR wishes and wishes of next of kin.
- How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze? This, however, is pretty cool and awesome. Also I totally want some artisanal toast.
- Ancillary Justice and the Value of Hype
- Why I Bought A House In Detroit For $500 I kind of have mixed feelings about this. There’s something about the way this is written that rubs me the wrong way.
- How to piss off someone from Michigan Except I’ve never heard of that brand of coffee, must be something came along after I left.
- The Troubling Case of the ‘Cannibal Cop’
- Love, Failure & Scarves
- “Dumbest Thing Ever”: Scribbling in the Margins of Dan Brown’s Inferno (via) I have to admit that this made me laugh for a solid 10 minutes.
- Really neat article about a one issue zine called “Applicant”.
- Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew Unloads Stockpile of Star Wars Set Photos
- Goodbye, Shia LaBeouf! A note on art and theft in the age of Tumblr
- Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers
- SFFworthy: SFF themed images done in the style of Upworthy.
