As old as creation / Syphilis is now curable
- Romance and Fantasy
- And Yet Do I Read
- “I was into Loki before it was cool” I’m pretty sure I didn’t write this essay…but I could have!
- A Culture of Moderation: or, no more messages from Satan
- On TRUCEConf and More TRUCEConf
- What No One Tells You About Losing Lots of Weight
- Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts This is an astonishing and eye-opening piece. Some of this I knew but much was new to me.
- This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time
- Remembering the Great War, 2013 I was more excited by a new entry in this long-running series of blog posts than I probably should have been.
- GIFs, memes and liveblogs: The controversial new language of book reviewing
- Recycled Movie Costumes This is awesome.
- Wounds On Our Fronts: Failure and Success More on stories that took a very long time to find a home.
- Green: R.E.M.’s Greatest Album Indeed.
- If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Come Sit By Me I think Olivia’s couch is getting pretty full this week…
- When The Personal Becomes Professional
- Oh, look, this argument again. Frequent commenter E ! on reviews. One of these days I’ll convince her to write me a guest post on book production…
- A Female Author Talks About Sexism and Self-Promotion and A Second Female Author Talks About Sexism and Self-Promotion
- Poacher-turned-gamekeeper
- An Open Letter to Mike Babchik: I Am Not For Sale
- So what does a gal have to do to get into The Comics Journal anyway?
- Contemplation, at the end of a season
- The Risk in Speaking Up
- Time Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Explains Why No Female Chefs Are ‘Gods of Food’ and Amanda Cohen on Time Magazine and Female Chefs
- How many male novelists does it take to change a lightbulb: SFF edition
- A discussion about Panel Parity
- Beware Attack Troll: Share Your Most Notable
- The Ethics of Mob Justice
- Why Pinterest Is Seriously Valuable (and What It’s Teaching Men in Power)
- A ‘Reluctant Reader’ Turns YA Author For ‘Tough Teens’
- Suleikha Snyder has been on fire this week: first with Mind the Queue: Privilege, Diversity and Romance and then with Variety is the spice of love: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- What The Giving Tree Gives Turning one of the creepiest children’s books ever into an outright horror story. Good job, Mallory Ortberg!
- The Making of Lorde I have no idea who Lorde is (because I live in a hole in the ground) but thought this was interesting anyhow.
- Richard Cohen In Context “‘Context’ is not a safe word that makes all your other horse-shit statements disappear.”
- Animal-hoarders are not animal-lovers and Hana Williams: The tragic death of an Ethiopian adoptee, and how it could happen again. (All the content warnings in the world.)
- The Fat Nutritionist on Real food.
- Jenny McCarthy, Anti-Vaccination Movement to Blame for Whooping Cough
- European Maps Showing Origins Of Common Words
- Shocking Pink . . . in the 1830s? FUCHSIIIIIINE!
- Fox Says Diversity Leads To Good Ratings And Better Business
- How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math This is kind of my story, too–except I learned that I could be good at math through having to be good at math for my job.
- Welcome to Dinovember
- Are We Ready for Tentacle Romance Yet?
- Guillermo Del Toro Reveals His Secret Sketches in ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
- Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Ends $15 Million Of Debt
- Families dealing with mental illness need support, too.
- These Sea Slugs Penetrate Each Other In The Head During Sex What is this I don’t even.
- Hild: Fantasy or History? See? Historical fiction IS speculative fiction. Darn it. Also, Hild is my weekend reading, too.
- Stefan Raets on Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh–which I’m hoping to review myself in the near future. And Ann Leckie gets in on the fun with a guest post over at Stefan’s called Skiing Downhill, or Agency in C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner.
And since today’s my birthday, everyone gets a cupcake!
