October 2022

October 2022

Read:

Fiction:

• The Green Man's Gift by Juliet E McKenna (K)
• The This by Adam Roberts (K)
• The Historian by Anna Kostova (reread for Hallowe’en)

 

Shorts:

• Fair Aliquant by Chip Houser (DSF)
• Plane Light, Plane Bright by Jonathan Carroll (https://jonathancarroll.com/plane-light-plane-bright-a9698d6b507e)
• Don't Call Us--We'll Call You by Eric James Stone (DSF)
• Into The Forest by River West (DSF)
• The Chosen One by Kimberly Ann Smiley (DSF)
• The Forgotten Treaties of Wildfire and Feathers by Daniel Ausema (DSF)
• High Concept by Dave Henrickson (DSF)
• The Airbnb (g)Host by Lena Alison Knight (DSF)

 

Non-Fiction:

• BRITISH INTELLIGENCE PREDICTED UKRAINE WAR 30 YEARS AGO by PHIL MILLER (https://declassifieduk.org/british-intelligence-predicted-ukraine-war-30-years-ago/)
• Humiliated Liz Truss is in office but barely in power. Rebel MPs have the whip hand now by Gaby Hinsliff (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/03/humiliated-liz-truss-office-power-rebel-mps-whip-hand)
• Seeing and somethingness by Nicholas Humphrey (https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness)
• “THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION” CAPTURES THE VIOLENCE OF OUR CURRENT MOMENT by Nic Anstett (https://www.tor.com/2022/10/04/the-screwfly-solution-captures-the-violence-of-our-current-moment/)
• How the War in Ukraine Might End by Keith Gessen (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/how-the-war-in-ukraine-might-end)
• Counterculture design legend Kaffe Fassett: ‘I’m that bizarre beast – a man who does textiles’ by Morwenna Ferrier (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/07/counterculture-design-legend-kaffe-fassett-im-that-bizarre-beast-a-man-who-does-textiles)
• My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise by  IMOGEN WEST-KNIGHTS (https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/gone-girl-cruise-review-diary-gillian-flynn.html)
• On Curiosity by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/@profadamroberts/on-curiosity-4d8c2b660383)
• I was given a house for free – but it already belonged to someone else by Anne Elizabeth Moore (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/18/detroit-house-free-property-tax)
• The Oligarch’s Oligarch by George Monbiot  (https://www.monbiot.com/2022/10/30/the-oligarchs-oligarch/)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

• The Cambridge Greek Play (The Persians/Cyclops) (https://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/whats-on/cambridge-greek-play-2022)
• 'Clare at 50: hope and experience in a postfeminist age' by Professor Polly O'Hanlon  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-NF-sMqWc)