I’m still working on the Alice Munro essay. Up soon! Worth it! (Oh, ha, there’s so much already published that I won’t need to do more research, and it will be done quickly, she said. Just a quick, breezy essay, she said.)
Here are links to my Daily Posts from the archives, in case you missed them, and some interesting articles. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
“Elizabeth Gilbert and the Pinterest Fantasy Life” (the “Deepak Chopra of Creative Work,” as I put it in this, my first essay for Current Affairs, in its very first issue).
“The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest”
The Chicago poet Yvonne Zipter, an integral part of this city’s queer LGBTQ history, has died. I reviewed her glorious chapbook, Like Some Bookie God, for Windy City Times in 2007.
“Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People”
“Jason Momoa, Aquaman, and the Queer Art of Friendship”
From Elsewhere on the Internet:
“How Bookstores Change the World,” by Lily Sánchez
“The Dead Hand of Clintonism,” by Lily Geismer
“DEI Was Never Going to Save Us,” by Malaika Jabal
“Trump’s plan to colonise Gaza echoes failed 19th-century American missions,” by Joseph Massad
“The Leaning Tower of New York,” by Eric Lach
A Humpback whale swallowed a man, and then spat him right back out. Nature finds us actually, literally revolting.
Joann Fabrics is closing 500 of its stores across the country.
It’s “Snowing in Brooklyn,” a Ferron classic.
And in case you missed it, here’s last week’s roundup, “Australian Animals Are Assassins: Links from February 3-7.”
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Image: Pink Angels, Willem de Kooning, c. 1945
