It's a cold Friday morning here in Pennsylvania; it seems seasonally appropriate, for once, during this atypically warm winter. Here, gathered from the past few weeks (plus some older picks that were new to me) is my latest roundup of reading suggestions that you might find interesting.
Reading & Writing
- The Guardian: "Istanbul bookshop that transports young Syrians back home: Founder of city’s first Arabic bookshop lets children read in their own language and escape the isolation of refugee life" by Kareem Shaheen
- Electric Lit: "Keep Safe, Read Dangerously: Why We Need Provocative YA More Than Ever" by Lauren Saft
- Lit Hub: "The Places We Read: On Solitude and the Reading Habits of Writers" by Michele Filgate
- The Guardian: "Whatever next? How plot grips us, from Dickens to Line of Duty" by John Mullan
Ephemera and History
- Atlas Obscura: "Library of Congress Card Catalog: There’s a bibliographic gem gathering dust in the basement of the Library of Congress"
- The New York Times: "Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street in a Discarded Photo Album" by Annie Correal
- BBC: "Why paper is the real 'killer app': With apps taking over our lives, there’s a movement afoot as people yearn for simpler, technology-free times." by Alison Birrane
- The New York Times Magazine: "To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation: Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation" by Jeanne Marie Laskas
- LancasterOnline: "After 40 years, Lancaster County woman reunited with a photo she didn't know existed" by Jennifer Kopf
- The Washington Post: "Clare Hollingworth, reporter who broke news about start of World War II, dies at 105" by John Otis
- The New York Times: "Centuries of New York History Prepare for the Move" (regarding the Division of Ancient Records) by Rick Rojas
- Slate: "The Website That Collects the Forgotten and the Unfamiliar: Twenty years after its founding, UbuWeb is still totally weird" by Jacob Brogan
- The (Allentown) Morning Call: "A wild ride: The story of Lehigh Valley's small amusement parks" by John J. Moser
The World We Live In
- The New Yorker: "Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich: Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization." by Evan Osnos
- The Washington Post: "In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did." by Andrés Miguel Rondón
- The New York Times: "As Trump Vows Building Splurge, Famed Traffic Choke Point Offers Warning" (an examination of Breezewood, Pennsylvania) by Charlie Savage
- The Washington Post: "Meet Osama. To his players, he’s ‘Coach Oss.’ These days, should he be ‘Steve’?" (feature story on a Muslim high school basketball team) by Kent Babb
- The Daily Dot: "Muslim superhero Ms. Marvel emerges as a powerful symbol during protests" by Michelle Jaworski
- My Inside Voices: "Transforming pain into compassion" by Susan Jennings
- The Allegheny Front: "This Pittsburgh Group is Pioneering the 'Uber of Food Recovery'" by Kara Holsopple
- The Atlantic: "A Short History of the Tomboy: With roots in race and gender discord, has the 'tomboy' label worn out its welcome?" by Elizabeth King
- VQR: "Here Be Dragons: Finding the Blank Spaces in a Well-Mapped World" by Lois Parshley
- Slate: "The Fight for the Future of NPR" by Leon Neyfakh
Popular culture
- Glixel: "How a Pen and Paper RPG Brought 'Star Wars' Back From the Dead" by Chris Baker
- New Statesman: "The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does" by Amelia Tait
- Smithsonian.com: "How Disney Came to Define What Constitutes the American Experience" by Bethanee Bemis
- FolkloreThursday: "Poltergeist, Witchcraft or Hoax: The Witch of Scrapfaggot Green"
My current reads
- FINISHED: City, by Clifford D. Simak
- FINISHED: Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, by Henry Petroski
- FINISHED: Through the Woods, by Emily Carroll
- Making Hay, by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Baba Yaga's Assistant, by Marika McCoola & Emily Carroll
- A Hundred Thousand Worlds, by Bob Proehl
- Spell on Wheels, by Kate Leth & Megan Levens
- The Great Lakes Avengers, by Zac Gorman & Will Robson
- Captain America: Steve Rogers, by Nick Spencer & Javier Pina
Hugo Steiner-Prag, Old Man Reading, c. 1927 pic.twitter.com/ejPhXjY4uR
— Berfrois (@berfrois) February 9, 2017
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