March 2016

[muninnhuginn]

Read:

Shorts:

- Charity Ball by Gary Cuba (https://everydayfiction.com/charity-ball-by-gary-cuba/)

- Why we hear better when we shut our eyes by Kate Glahn (https://everydayfiction.com/why-we-hear-better-when-we-shut-our-eyes-by-kate-glahn/)

- A Package for Ms. B. by Justin Hoo (https://everydayfiction.com/a-package-for-ms-b-%e2%80%a2-by-justin-hoo/)

Novels:

- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (WBC March)

- Hary Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling

Non-fiction:

- Three days with The Dice Man: ‘I never wrote for money or fame' by Tanya Gold (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/three-days-dice-man-never-wrote-money-fame-tanya-gold)

- Silkworms Spin Super-Silk after Eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene by Prachi Patel (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silkworms-spin-super-silk-after-eating-carbon-nanotubes-and-graphene/)

- George Saunders: what writers really do when they write (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write)

"What a pleasure that is; to be, on the page, less of a dope than usual."

- Observation of a discrete time crystal by J. Zhang, P. W. Hess, A. Kyprianidis, P. Becker, A. Lee, J. Smith, G. Pagano, I.-D. Potirniche, A. C. Potter, A. Vishwanath, N. Y. Yao & C. Monroe (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/full/nature21413.html)

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as art by Lucy Mangan (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/10/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-at-20-the-thrilling-brilliant-birth-of-tv-as-art)

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone – including me by Anthony Stewart Head (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/10/20-buffy-vampire-slayer-feminist)

- Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future by Naomi Alderman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/25/dystopian-dreams-how-feminist-science-fiction-predicted-the-future)

- Why You Feel the Urge to Jump, The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place. by Jessica Seigel (nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-you-feel-the-urge-to-jump)