March 2022

March 2022

Read:

Fiction:

•  A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell (K)
• The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell (K)
• Hot Water by Christopher Fowler (K)
• The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell (K)
• Island Reich by Jack Grimwood (K)

 

Shorts:

•  Your Hero Can't Save You Now by Katie Conrad (DSF)
•  “A Map to Camelot” by Rose Biggin (http://betwixtmagazine.com/a-map-to-camelot-by-rose-biggin/) 

• Thanks to armb for the recommendation!

• Junior Year by A. E. Lanier (DSF)
• War of the Worlds: Final Take by Bruce McAllister (DSF)
• Never to Behold Again by Marie Brennan (DSF)
• Random Acts of Magic by Amy Clare Fontaine (DSF)
• An Age-Based Guide to Children's Chores by Marissa Lingen (DSF)
• String Theory by Emma-Rive A. Nelson (DSF)
• The Last Gay in the World by Finnian Burnett (DSF)
• School Project by Robert Bagnall (DSF)

 

Poetry:

• Resistance by Simon Armitage (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/resistance-by-simon-armitage-ukraine-poem)
• Coleridge Gets Really High And Writes “Kubla Khan”, Quantocks, 1797. by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/coleridge-gets-really-high-and-writes-kubla-khan-quantocks-1797-e3bcd2c747f6)

 

Non-Fiction:

• Self Published Book Launch A-Z by Travis Baldree ()
• Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century by Robert Reich (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/13/putin-trump-ukraine-russia-invasion-war-21st-century)
• ‘By 10, I knew all about the impact of a nuclear blast’: growing up in the shadow of the bomb by Zoe Williams (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/by-10-i-knew-all-about-the-impact-of-a-nuclear-blast-growing-up-in-the-shadow-of-the-bomb)
• At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born by Edward Ongweso Jr (https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gb75/at-sxsw-a-pathetic-tech-future-struggles-to-be-born)
• ‘I am utterly in thrall to the beauty of cats’: David Baddiel on his favourite pets by David Baddiel (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/20/diavid-baddiel-on-the-love-of-cats-i-am-utterly-in-thrall-to-their-beauty)
• The Schism Breaking Apart the “Prepper” Community BY LILI LOOFBOUROW (https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/reddit-preppers-sub-women-splitting-off-twoxpreppers.html)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• Megson in concert online
• Nosferatu at 100: The Vampire as Contagion and Monstrous Outsider (https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/nosferatu-at-100-2022/)

• As someone said in the chat, best Saturday morning ever.

• Deciphering the past using ancient Irish genomes,  Prof. Daniel Bradley (online lecture)

 

Celebrated:

• 15 years on Twitter
• 30th wedding anniversary