I've sorted this morning's set of links into thematic categories, so that you can pick and choose whatever strikes your fancy. Trigger warning: After the BOOKS illustration, you'll find the links to political stories. Maybe you come here to read anything but politics, which is fine. But they're there if you want them, hopefully to provide some insights.
Modern Life & Culture
- The Atlantic: "The Binge Breaker: Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop." by Bianca Bosker
- Center for American Progress: "Workin’ 9 to 5: How School Schedules Make Life Harder for Working Parents" by Catherine Brown, Ulrich Boser, and Perpetual Baffour
- My Inside Voices: "Being Mr. Bucket" by Susan Jennings
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Model train enthusiasts want to attract a younger fan base" by Maria Sciullo
- NPR: "Bees Added To U.S. Endangered Species List For 1st Time" by Merrit Kennedy
- The Washington Post: "The mystery of the ‘ghost trees’ may be solved" by Sarah Kaplan
- LancasterOnline: "Lancaster man, 75, dusts off childhood dream, hikes 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail" by Ad Crable
Books, Reading & Writing
- Los Angeles Times: "Shirley Jackson and her bewitching biography, 'A Rather Haunted Life'" by Scott Bradfield
- Los Angeles Review of Books: "On Samuel R. Delany’s 'Dark Reflections'" by Matthew Cheney
- Geeked Out Nation: "Chelsea Cain Left Twitter and This Is Absolutely Comics’ Problem" by Jess Camacho
- The New Yorker: "What Makes a Children's Book Good?" by Adam Gidwitz
- The Atlantic: "How to Write a History of Writing Software: Isaac Asimov, John Updike, and John Hersey changed their writing habits to adapt to word processors, according to the first literary historian of the technology" by Robinson Meyer
- Electric Lit: "The Strange Horrors of Robert Aickman: A master of unsettling tales is poised for a revival" by Matthew Cheney
- Vulture: "How Do You Capture the 1980s in Writing? Six Novelists Discuss Re-creating the Decade" by Miles Klee
Games We Play
- Paste: "Agamemnon is the New King of Short Two-Player Boardgames" by Keith Law
- FolkloreThursday.com: "The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland" by Edward Parnell
Cats
- Atlas Obscura: "A Dearly Departed Istanbul Cat Gets a Commemorative Statue" by Sarah Laskow
- The Siberian Times: "Pallas's cats to get their own 'palace' in Siberian mountains: New plan to protect the world's fluffiest feline" by Olga Gertcyk
Halloween 2016 Wrapup
- Literary Hub: "Why We Love To Be Haunted" by Lyz Lenz
- The New York Times: "Boo? Halloween used to be about finding true love" by Niraj Chokshi
- The Guardian: "Which way for Witch City? Is Salem losing its spookiness?" by J.W. Ocker
- Atlas Obscura: "Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses" by Sarah Laskow
Ephemera!
- The Washington Post: "From the attics and shoeboxes of Virginia, a trove of historical gold" by Gregory S. Schneider
Politics and the election
- The Washington Post: "President-elect Donald Trump is about to learn the nation’s ‘deep secrets’" by Bob Woodward
- Los Angeles Times: "A primer on executive power: Trump can't end same-sex marriages, but he could speed up deportations" by David Lauter
- The New York Times: "Want to Know What America’s Thinking? Try Asking" by Public Editor Liz Spayd
- The Guardian: "What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters" by Chris Arnade
- CBS News: "Steve Bannon and the alt-right: a primer" by Will Rahn
- Chicago Tribune: "What a Trump presidency might mean for transgender students in schools" by Duaa Eldeib
- The Guardian: "Trump's conflicts of interest take White House into uncharted territory" by Sam Thielman
- The New York Times: "Trump Wants to ‘Drain the Swamp,’ but Change Will Be Complex and Costly" by Michael D. Shear and Gardiner Harris
- Los Angeles Times: "How to weather the Trump administration: Head to the library" by David Kipen
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