January 2021

[muninnhuginn]

Read:

Fiction:

• The Faerie Hounds of York by Arden Powell (K)
• The Swiss Familiy Robinson by Johann David Wyss (PG)
• Only the Women are Burning by Nancy Burke (K)

 

Shorts:

• An Account of the Land of Witches by SOFIA SAMATAR (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-account-of-the-land-of-witches/)
• The World's Champion Ball-Bouncer by Patricia Highsmith (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/09/the-worlds-champion-ball-bouncer-by-patricia-highsmith-read-the-unpublished-story)
• STOKER SYNDROME by PAUL A. FREEMAN (https://everydayfiction.com/stoker-syndrome-by-paul-a-freeman/)
• I HARDLY KNEW DARYL by BRENDON ARNOLD (https://everydayfiction.com/i-hardly-knew-daryl-by-brendon-arnold/)
•  The Billionaire Shapeshifters’ Ex-Wives Club by MARISSA LINGEN (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/the-billionaire-shapeshifters-ex-wives-club/)
• BABEL by PAUL DICKEN (https://everydayfiction.com/babel-by-paul-dicken/)

 

Poetry:

• "Rape Joke" by Patricia Lockwood (https://www.theawl.com/2013/07/patricia-lockwood-rape-joke/)

 

Non-Fiction:

• Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters (https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/07/pandemic-fatigue-how-adherence-to-covid-19-regulations-has-been-misrepresented-and-why-it-matters/)
• Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? by Jim Davies (https://nautil.us/blog/can-you-treat-loneliness-by-creating-an-imaginary-friend?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication)
• IS IT POSSIBLE THAT JOHNNY MNEMONIC’S FUTURE IS BETTER THAN OUR OWN by Leah Schnelbach (https://www.tor.com/2021/01/26/is-it-possible-that-johnny-mnemonics-future-is-better-than-our-own/)
• Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen review – genuinely enlightening on the millennial experience by Holly Williams (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/24/cant-even-by-anne-helen-petersen-review-genuinely-enlightening-on-the-millennial-experience)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Alfred the Great, and Viking History by Michael Livingston (https://www.tor.com/2021/01/26/assassins-creed-valhalla-alfred-the-great-and-viking-history/)
• Patricia Lockwood: 'That's what's so attractive about the internet: you can exist there as a spirit in the void’ by Hadley Freeman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/30/patricia-lockwood-thats-whats-so-attractive-about-the-internet-you-can-exist-there-as-a-spirit-in-the-void)
• THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN BY TLOTLO TSAMAASE by M. L. CLARK (http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-silence-of-the-wilting-skin-by-tlotlo-tsamaase/)

 

Watched:

• A world of shacks and shanties is a place of makeshift beauty on England’s margins (https://aeon.co/videos/a-world-of-shacks-and-shanties-is-a-place-of-makeshift-beauty-on-englands-margins)