*scuttles back into cave and rolls the boulder in front of the entrance*
SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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DongWon Song
I had some thoughts on gift economies and what it means for publishing.
www.publishingishard.com/a-publ/
I did not look at bsky before posting this and did not know we were having a conversation about author income. idk if that makes this post timely or deeply inappropriate.
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
one irritating consequence of the plagiarism machine becoming so prevalent is that emails are getting longer
thoughts on grace and finding it in risking your life
www.publishingishard.com/grace-will-f...
new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.
www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
