March 2024

March 2024

Read:

Fiction:

• The Missing Mummies by Lisa Tuttle (K)
• Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (K)

Shorts:

• “Amoxicillin” by Liz Kerin (https://reactormag.com/amoxicillin-by-liz-kerin/)
• Also, the Cat by RACHEL SWIRSKY (https://reactormag.com/also-the-cat-rachel-swirsky/)
• The Year Without Sunshine by NAOMI KRITZER (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/)
• Enmity by K. Tempest Bradford (https://ktempestbradford.com/bibliography/enmity-by-k-tempest-bradford/)

Non-fiction:

• Poor Things and Buffy Feminism by Robert K Starr (https://medium.com/@robert.k.starr/poor-things-and-buffy-feminism-6a38e5048bb7)
• Behind F1's Velvet Curtain by KATE WAGNER (https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/)
• WHAT THE BIRTH OF THE SPREADSHEET TEACHES US ABOUT GENERATIVE AI by tim_harford_feed (https://timharford.com/2024/03/what-the-birth-of-the-spreadsheet-teaches-us-about-generative-ai/)
• Chengdu Revisited by Cheryl Morgan (https://www.salonfutura.net/2024/02/chengdu-revisited/)
• Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) by Cory Doctorow (https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security)
• Yes, we should care about Julian Assange by Jeremy Wagstaff (https://loosewire.medium.com/yes-we-should-care-about-julian-assange-b2315d8d074c)
• Imaginary Review: Muntcrow’s “Ooegenesis” by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/imaginary-review-muntcrows-ooegenesis-2fe73bb8c698)
• Lucifer Antevolat by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/lucifer-antevolat-49e0ebef54c4)
• Ofsted try to 'do' literature and end up with pap by Michael Rosen (https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/ofsted-try-to-do-literatureand-end-up.html?spref=tw)
• What Is Fantasy Anyway? by Cheryl Morgan (https://www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-is-fantasy-anyway)
• In the dog house: why are so many of Britain’s dogs behaving badly? by Gaby Hinsliff (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/25/in-the-dog-house-why-are-so-many-of-britains-dogs-behaving-badly)
• Are We OK? by Eva Wiseman (https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a46390035/are-we-ok-covid-pandemic/)
• Are We Watching The Internet Die? by EDWARD ZITRON (https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/)
• ‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’ How I got hooked on the piano craze by Simon Usborne (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/14/theres-joy-i-havent-felt-for-years-how-i-got-hooked-on-the-piano-craze)
• A glorious lineage, or an expensive disaster? Paris is at war over 300 wild rabbits by Agnès Poirier (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/08/paris-wild-rabbits-animals-rodin-les-invalides)
• THE LAST DAYS OF JULIAN ASSANGE IN THE UNITED STATES by MATT KENNARD (https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-last-days-of-julian-assange-in-the-united-states/)
• Under Mirk Wood by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/under-mirk-wood-25eff4b0e3a1)
• ‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burnt his initials on a patient’s liver by Jenny Kleeman (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/surgeon-who-signed-patients-livers)
• When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope (K)
• A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans by Owen Davies (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0015587X.2023.2282808)
• The Thing About The Thing (1982) by The Tax Collector Man (https://thetaxcollectorman.medium.com/the-thing-about-the-thing-1982-4022a159598b)
• Cambridge academic escapes toilet using eyeliner and cotton by Harriet Heywood (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68446843)
• ‘I don’t think I developed emotionally’: Earl Spencer on the pain of boarding-school abuse by Tim Adam (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/17/earl-charles-spencer-a-very-private-school-interview)
• Some Thoughts on Kramnick’s ‘Criticism & Truth’ (2023) by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/some-thoughts-on-kramnicks-criticism-and-truth-2023-c1b5beea129a)
• Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class by Rachel Dixon (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/20/britains-bitter-bread-battle-what-a-5-sourdough-loaf-tells-us-about-health-wealth-and-class)
• Tanya Bentham: A modern twist on medieval embroidery (https://www.textileartist.org/tanya-bentham-a-modern-twist-on-medieval-embroidery/)

Poetry

• The Book of Taliesin, Rowan Williams and Gwyneth Lewis (K)

Attended

• Levitation (virtually)
• Addenbrookes (CAT scan)