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The New Academy has released a longlist for their Alternate Nobel Prizes, since the Nobels are such a fucking shitshow this year that they had to call the whole thing off. I voted for Marilynne Robinson. You should vote for somebody.
Tell me you're all listening to LeVar Burton Reads, right? I'm not generally a huge fan of audio books, but I do listen to podcasts or sometimes audio books when I knit. I missed this podcast until a few months ago - it's just LeVar Burton reading you a short story. He also talks a little at the end about what he likes about the story, and I wish he'd extend that part because he's an interesting and clearly well-read guy and I want to hear him talk more about lit'ratuhr. His voice is like a warm cabin on a cold night, and if you don't like one story, the next one will be different.
Cops are challenging summer reading books here in my state because evidently African-American high school students only find out that cops sometimes shoot black kids when they read The Hate U Give and not, say, from watching Michael Slager's first trial end in a mistrial even though we all saw the video where he shot Walter Scott in the back and then lied about it but what the fuck do I know about anything.
This is old but cool - the Smithsonian is trying to figure out how to describe old-book-smell. They should also work on whatever that smell is at thrift stores and why it takes a couple washes to get rid of it.
Why aren't schools teaching black literature? Well? I was assigned two whole books by black authors in high school that I can recall (Their Eyes Were Watching God and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.) That's pathetic. Do better.
Tell me you're all listening to LeVar Burton Reads, right? I'm not generally a huge fan of audio books, but I do listen to podcasts or sometimes audio books when I knit. I missed this podcast until a few months ago - it's just LeVar Burton reading you a short story. He also talks a little at the end about what he likes about the story, and I wish he'd extend that part because he's an interesting and clearly well-read guy and I want to hear him talk more about lit'ratuhr. His voice is like a warm cabin on a cold night, and if you don't like one story, the next one will be different.
Cops are challenging summer reading books here in my state because evidently African-American high school students only find out that cops sometimes shoot black kids when they read The Hate U Give and not, say, from watching Michael Slager's first trial end in a mistrial even though we all saw the video where he shot Walter Scott in the back and then lied about it but what the fuck do I know about anything.
This is old but cool - the Smithsonian is trying to figure out how to describe old-book-smell. They should also work on whatever that smell is at thrift stores and why it takes a couple washes to get rid of it.
Why aren't schools teaching black literature? Well? I was assigned two whole books by black authors in high school that I can recall (Their Eyes Were Watching God and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.) That's pathetic. Do better.
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