🔖 Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.

🔖 I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its conclusion: it would be good to calm down about books. (The verbs attacks Book People are defending themselves against are published, rather than imagined.)

We Have to Save Books from the Book People

🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and Brecht’s work with alienation.

🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.

🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself.

I’ve been feeling the need to do some fun, low-pressure writing. Fic may be just the thing.

🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination

🔖I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual and psychological depth of tabletop RPGs: How One Rabbi Uses Roleplaying Games to Build Community

🔖This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep

🔖 Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my favorites.

🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. 🎭