Papergreat's summer reads 2019

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Here's another batch of things that I've bookmarked or tucked away for rainy days. I hope you find some of these articles enlightening, too...

• The Atlantic: "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper" by Dan Cohen (University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.)
• Medium: "What I Don’t Tell My Students About 'The Husband Stitch'" by Jane Dykema (The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s "Her Body and Other Parties" brings up big questions about who we believe and why.)
• Atlas Obscura: "Why Is Iceland So in Love With Licorice?" by Linni Kral
• The Atlantic: "The Adults Who Treat Reading Like Homework" by Julie Beck¹
• The New York Times: "Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due." by Karen Zraick
• Salon: "Is the Impossible Burger a threat to vegetarianism?" by Amanda Marcotte
• Mashable: "No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you." by Chris Taylor
• CNN: "How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America's supermarkets" by Nathaniel Meyersohn
• The Washington Post: "How San Francisco broke America’s heart" by Karen Heller
• LancasterOnline: "Summer reads 2019: Lancaster County book recommendations"
• Columbia Journalism Review: "What if reporters covered the climate crisis like Edward R. Murrow covered the start of World War II?" by Bill Moyers
• York Daily Record: "Silent storytellers: How trees function as nature's pillars for the past, present and future" by Frank Bodani
• New York magazine: "Measles for the One Percent" by Lisa Miller (Vaccines, Waldorf schools, and the problem with liberal Luddites)
• Mother Nature Network: "Why we still need paper maps. GPS may be handy, but there are some serious downsides." by Sidney Stevens
• The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Why the lies my teacher told me about race in America after the Civil War matter in 2019" by Will Bunch
• Forbes: "Fears Grow That 'Nuclear Coffin' Is Leaking Waste Into The Pacific" by Trevor Nace
• The New York Times: "If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?" by Andy Newman (In the age of global warming, traveling — by plane, boat or car — is a fraught choice. And yet the world beckons.)
• PA Post: "How a Pennsylvania man ended up in an iconic D-Day invasion photo" by Tim Lambert
• Sierra: "We Were Poor, But the Beach Was Ours" by Kaitlyn Greenige
• Pacific Standard: "A generation of hip-hop was given away for free. Can it be archived?" by Jack Denton (They won't be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes?)

Gorgeous old bookplate art. This would make a fabulous tattoo. pic.twitter.com/PB0jnJ7MbP

— Omnivore Books (@omnivorebooks) May 1, 2018

Footnote
1. My Twitter response to this article:

I enjoy the community on @goodreads.
I enjoy the Reading Challenge and the nudge it gives me to read, but I don't set my reading habits by it or stress over my goals.
Books are not stress.
I don't understand the notion or worry of "sucking the fun out of reading" https://t.co/VBC0CbUaNd

— Chris Otto (@Papergreat) June 7, 2019