Great Things I Read in January

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What I Read:

• I can’t get enough of this romance author who faked her death and thinks that was fine

• The lovely comments in this thread, with tears in my eyes.

• Morse code is back, baby!

• They’re coming, by our very own

  Five Black Lines

• This inspiring tweet:

  Kate Kaput @katekaput

  Maybe 2023 can be the year of the anti-Karen. Have really good service someplace? Fill out the survey on your receipt. Write a positive Yelp of Google review. Ask if you can share that employee’s name with the manager.

• How we love teen detectives by

  What To Read If

• Thoreau on the tragic and sudden death of his brother

• Where do Tolkien’s Shire, Thacher’s England, and Punk’s Iconoclasm intersect?

• Edith Wharton knew the 21st century would be for the promiscuous and showy

• Should we begin meeting to scream into the night?

• A ranking of over 1,000 literary journals. Yes, over 1000.

• Go ahead: Steal like an author

• Girl-Shaped

• Devastated by the death of Paul Lafarge, but this obituary is lovely.

What I Published:

• When Coffee Becomes a Religious Experience

• A Tale of Two British Memoirs

• Who Are We Conforming For?

• The Best Things to Do in LA Right Now

• Catherine de Medici: The Serpent Queen? Part 1 and Part 2