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Thursday Links, Just for You
* 8 Characters I Created To Teach My Kid About Dental Hygiene That Have Unfortunately Come To Life. * There’s organized crime, and then there’s organized crime. Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a...
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Surprise Sunday Links! Watch Out!
* The route Google Maps recommends if you’re headed to Ferrum College from the west involves what may be the loneliest and most roller-coaster-like stretch of roadway ever to earn a state route number...
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Just a Few for Wednesday
* The U.S. Department of Education has recommended the termination of a controversial accreditor, which could threaten access to federal financial aid for 243 institutions — many of them for-profits —...
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So, So, So Many Wednesday Links!
* Just in time for my next trip to Liverpool, the research from my last trip to Liverpool five years ago is finally published! “‘A Dread Mystery, Compelling Adoration’: Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, and...
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London Calling to the Faraway Links
* accessiblesyllabus.tulane.edu. * Global Markets in Chaos After UK Votes to Leave EU. Five terrifying immediate reactions to Brexit from the markets. Results Map. All this and the vote wasn’t even...
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Blogging from the Mid-Atlantic!
* Modern conservatism came onto the scene of the twentieth century in order to defeat the great social movements of the left. As far as the eye can see, it has achieved its purpose. Having done so, it...
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Closing Every Tab Because My Computer Will Barely Work Right Now Links
Sorry I’ve been so quiet! Between summer teaching and wrapping up a few big projects it’s been a very busy couple of weeks. Here’s every tab I had open! * CFP: Hamilton: A Special Issue of Studies in...
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Monday Morning Links!
* ICYMI: A CFP for an upcoming issue of SFFTV devoted to Women in SF, keyed to the Frankenstein bicentennial. * We, the Undercommoning Collective, invite all those over whom the neoliberal, neocolonial...
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Monday Night Links!
* I had two short pieces come out this weekend: a review essay on Star Trek: Beyond at LARB and a flash review of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child right here at WordPress. * CFP: Vector Special Issue:...
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Sunday Links and Every Tab Is Closed, Forever and Ever Amen
* Second, and more surprising to me: Most papers simply lacked a soul—a compelling and well-articulated reason to exist. * I’ve noticed, to my bewilderment, the question circulating of whether J. K....
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Far Too Many Monday Morning Links, Sorry
* The Imaginary Worlds podcast did a recent episode on the legacy of Octavia Butler. * N.K. Jemisin has a plan for diversity in science fiction. * The best McSweeney’s link in years, maybe ever: “A...
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* The University of Wisconsin-Madison Mellon Postdoctoral Program invites recent PhDs to apply for its three two-year postdoctoral fellowships. The theme for 2017-2019 applicants is Translation,...
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Last Weekend Before the Semester Links!
* ICYMI: My new syllabi for the fall! Infinite Jest and Alternate History. There’s also a new version of my “Video Game Culture” class, set for a new eleven-meeting schedule and with a “Capitalism”...
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Saturday Morning Links!
* Really exciting new anthology I just heard about: Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation. * CFP: Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing. * CFP: The Literature...
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Happy First Day of School Links!
* The Japanese have a word for blogs that have fallen into neglect or are altogether abandoned: ishikoro, or pebbles. We live in a world of pebbles now. They litter the internet, each one a marker of...
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Monday Morning
* In local news: Dangerous Levels of ‘Erin Brockovich’ Chemical Found in Local Drinking Water. * Great little Wisconsin story about the hotel NFL teams stay at when they play the Packers. * A brief...
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Please Enjoy Weekend Links!
* Get your abstracts in! CFP: Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. And a CFP for a special issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies on “The Intersections of...
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Catching Up on My Open Tabs After an Incredibly Slow News Week in Which...
* CFP: And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python. * CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson. * Three on Dylan, Nobel Laureate. The Guardian reports. breaking news Nobel...
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Sunday Links!
* CFP: The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2017. And here’s a CFP for a special issue on Polish science fiction. * Do Earth laws apply to Mars colonists? * The Turner Legacy: The Storied...
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Monday Morning Links!
* My superhero identity has finally been scooped. * Lots of people are sharing this one, on hyperexploited labor in the academy: Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech. As with most of this sort of...
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