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Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

February 15, 2013

Linkspam, 2/15/13 Edition

Highlander watering some flowers which he has planted outside his dug-out

Highlander watering some flowers which he has planted outside his dug-out

  • MY BRAIN IS A JERK: a post about writing with (and in spite of) perfectionism This link was pointed out to me by Janine Ballard over on Twitter and…yes. I’m not a creative writer, but I am a writer and man, my brain is such a jerk sometimes.
  • There are almost no obituaries for Sylvia Plath This can be filed under “Ted Hughes ruins everything” or “Ted Hughes is why we can’t have nice things”.
  • Kate Elliott on “Strong Female Characters”
  • The Humanities Know (Part 2): Meaning Matters
  • Repeat post on m/m and gender politics because not everyone got the memo
  • Quit Fixing Introverts and Doing disservice to introversion As an introvert…argh. I do a pretty good job at pretending to be an extrovert at dayjob but when I get home, it’s all introvert all the time.
  • Your Dates with Fictional Men I can’t decide which one is the funniest, because they’re all pretty good.
  • Romance Novels for Feminists on the Wrinkle in Time graphic novel I reviewed this one here and it illuminated some things in the original text I hadn’t noticed–this review also finds some other things for the astute reader to be a bit o_O at.
  • Dear Male Allies: Your Sexism Looks a Bit Like My Racism
  • Can Heroes of One Size Fit All Readers?: How Heavyset Heroes Can Rock Your World I was so happy to see this post–I do need to look for more romances with pudgy heroes!
  • N.K. Jemisin on The Unbearable Baggage of Orcing
  • Liz McCausland starts a really interesting discussion on objectification that I’m still thinking about a week later.
  • Seraphina, fullblood prejudice and pervasive racial passing “… my experience of prejudice is a myriad small things that made it clear that I was odd and unwelcome; and that I would argue is no less damaging/formative than the large burn-the-halfbreed/kill-the-abomination prejudice that is writ large across Seraphina.”
  • Why Read Romance? This is a brilliant post from Susanna Kearsley on the perils of judging a book by its cover.

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  1. Selki says

    February 17, 2013 at 9:10 am

    There’s a charming side romance with a fat computer geek in Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder (criminal caper) book, *Drowned Hopes*: https://www.librarything.com/work/182019/reviews/94160386

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