August 2022

August 2022

Read:

Fiction:

• The Soldier by Neal Asher (K)
• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (K)
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (K)

 

Shorts:

• In the Enchanted Forest by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (DSF)
• How to Find Your Happily Ever After by Holley Cornetto (DSF)
• Business Is Suppurating by Rich Larson (DSF)
• 'My Future Self, Refused' by Adam-Troy Castro (https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-magazine-timetravel-story-by-adamtroy-castro-1849368275)
• My Wife Hates Time Travel by Adam-Troy Castro (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/my-wife-hates-time-travel/)
• The Old Horror Writer byAdam-Troy Castro (https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/old-horror-writer/)
• Helpful Truths For the Chosen One Who Has Returned Home by Cislyn Smith (DSF)
• Five Visits to the Smallest Closet in the Imperial Capital by Hayley Stone (DSF)
• Pick-up time at the Daycare by Filip Wiltgren (DSF)
• Haunted by T.R. Frazier

 

Poetry:

• The Long Undressing by Annemarie Austin (https://twitter.com/IMcMillan/status/1556583335979278336)
• Swiping left on Larkin by Imtiaz Dharker  (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/09/philip-larkin-flinched-from-intimacy-social-media-imtiaz-dharker-swiping-left-on-larkin)
• Proverbial By Wendy Videlock (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56015/proverbial)
• In Winter the Steep Lane by Peter Sansom (https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2022/aug/22/poem-of-the-week-in-winter-the-steep-lane-by-peter-sansom)
• Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures by Ernest Dowson (https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2022/aug/29/poem-of-the-week-villanelle-of-his-ladys-treasures-by-ernest-dowson)
• Pushkin’s ‘Two Ravens’ trans. Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/pushkins-two-ravens-1828-2d2639a9d13a)

 

Non-Fiction: 

• Fantasy and Violence: the Sadean Turn by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/fantasy-and-violence-the-sadean-turn-b3811669ebd1)
• The Disappeared by Salman Rushdie (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared)
• How brain surgeon Henry Marsh went from doctor to patient: ‘I blurted out the question we all ask – how long have I got?’ by Henry Marsh (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/13/brain-surgeon-henry-marsh-doctor-patient-prostate-cancer)
• The Kiln Gods are Trans (https://roseschmits.substack.com/p/the-kiln-gods-are-trans)
• ‘I can’t grip a pencil’: Maggie O’Farrell on Covid, convalescence and writing the follow up to Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/20/i-cant-grip-a-pencil-maggie-ofarrell-on-covid-convalescence-and-writing-the-follow-up-to-hamnet)
• THE GHOST OF WORKSHOPS PAST: HOW COMMUNISM, CONSERVATISM, AND THE COLD WAR STILL MOLD OUR PATHS INTO SFF WRITING by S.L. Huang (https://www.tor.com/2022/08/17/the-ghost-of-workshops-past-how-communism-conservatism-and-the-cold-war-still-mold-our-paths-into-sff-writing/)
•  The surprising dangers of sewing machines by Katie Birkwood (https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/blog/surprising-dangers-sewing-machines)
• Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) by Brett Beasely (https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction-in-william-delisle-hay-s-the-doom-of-the-great-city-1880)
• Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard by Emily Monaco (https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220816-why-theres-no-dijon-in-dijon-mustard)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

•   A New Day (much prog! very flute! yay!)