February 2022

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February 2022

Read:

Fiction:

• Ten-Second Staircase: (Bryant & May Book 4) by Christopher Fowler (K)
• A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (K)

 

Shorts:

•  EDGE OF LIFE by MARTHA J ALLARD (https://everydayfiction.com/edge-of-life-by-martha-j-allard/)
• Clay by Isabel J. Kim (https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/clay/)
• Godmaker by J.A. Prentice (https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/godmaker/)
• What To Expect When Your Daughter Returns from Neverland by Luke Sekiguchi (DSF)
• Super. Hero. by Karen Brenchley (DSF)
• The Cities Rise Up on Legs of Lead by Daniel Ausema (DSF)
• Bonsai Starships by Yoon Ha Lee (https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bonsai-starships/)
• Snow White by Max Barry (https://maxbarry.com/2022/02/16/news.html)
• The Messenger by Mari Ness (DSF)
• Last Teen Standing by Samara Lo (DSF)
• When It Pours by Carol Scheina (DSF)
• The Seller of Dreams: a tale for our times by Kathleen Jowitt (https://kathleenjowitt.com/2022/02/21/the-seller-of-dreams-a-tale-for-our-times/)
• The Cube by Jonathan Worlde (DSF)

 

Poetry:

•  Mud Season : Vermont by Jane Shore (https://twitter.com/IMcMillan/status/1489559896811089922)
• The Nightingale Replies to Keats by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/the-nightingale-replies-to-keats-5d4cb684e0d)
• Wordsworth’s ‘London’ (1802): some Brutality by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/wordsworth-london-1802-some-brut-e7fd094d4e3b)
•  Wildpeace by YEHUDA AMICHAI (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54294/wildpeace)

 

Non-Fiction:

• Boomer mathematics: why older generations can’t understand the millennial struggle to buy a house by Sarah Manavis (https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2022/02/boomer-mathematics-why-older-generations-cant-understand-the-millennial-struggle-to-buy-a-house)
• The death of the department store by John Harris (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/10/the-death-of-the-department-store-john-lewis-coles-sheffield)

• “For the next 40 years, in homage to local tradition, the Cole Brothers name remained on the building. It wasn’t until 2002 that the store was rebranded as John Lewis.”

• I always thought this rebranding of locally-recognised sotres was a mistake. Robert Sayles is still Robert Sayles to me and not simply my town’s John Lewis.

• There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID by Steven W. Thrasher (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-nothing-normal-about-one-million-people-dead-from-covid1/)
• Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu? Andrew Nikiforuk (https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/02/14/Pandemic-Ghost-Russian-Flu/)
• Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago? by Michael Marshall (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00157-9)
• America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him by Sam George (https://theconversation.com/americas-first-vampire-was-black-and-revolutionary-its-time-to-remember-him-149044)
• ‘In my 30 years as a GP, the profession has been horribly eroded’ by Clare Gerada (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/22/my-30-years-as-gp-profession-horribly-eroded-clare-gerada)
• Underwire Under Fire: How the Pandemic Changed the Bra by NICOLE SCHMIDT (https://thewalrus.ca/hope-youre-well-pandemic-bra/#)
• I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever by Cory Doctorow (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/24/ive-been-waiting-15-years-for-facebook-to-die-im-more-hopeful-than-ever)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• Simon Armitage in conversation with Glyn Maxwell courtesy of The Poetry Society (online)
• Secret Passages & Hidden Tunnels with James Wright (online)
• Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Esther MacCallum-Stewart (D&D @ 50) (online)