books & reading
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… writing was born only fifty-four hundred years ago in the Fertile Crescent, and the alphabet itself is only thirty-eight hundred years old. These time spans are a mere trifle in evolutionary terms. Evolution thus did…
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I REALLY enjoyed this discussion (this is what a podcast interview should be!) between journalist Mary Harrington + columnist/author James Marriott, on his new book, The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn…
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"…what is so wonderful about being big? It is often said that the world is suffering from the ills of bigness, and we now have some clinical examples in our large cities. Many cities are probably past the point of good…
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hosting October’s IndieWeb Book Club with Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a short read exploring hopepunk, solarpunk, and what people need.
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on ergodic appetites, bedtime fiction, and why for a recovering perfectionist the easy things are the hard ones.
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on experimental literature, recovering from perfectionism, and why the easier reading experience can sometimes be the better choice.