Friday, er, some: oh look, I've made it to five
Dept of, Point Thahr, Misst:
How feminism sold out by becoming cool. It's a review of a book which sounds like a meritorious diatribe against the commodification of feminism into a consumer item: and then the reviewer says: 'I wish Zeisler had tried harder to reconcile feminism and capitalism.' WOT.
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Dept of, What Does 'Recent' Mean Here?
The best recent science fiction and fantasy novels - reviews roundup - TW for opheidophobes, the column is headed by a large photograph of a snake. This includes Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake (1978) and while I will concede that a) I am glad to see it back in print and b) it is indeed a work of great and enduring merit and deserves to be noticed: I would not call it 'recent' (perhaps this is a sub-editor fault?).
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Dept of, As An Archivist for 40+ Years, I Could Tell You Some Tales:
The lost art of reading other people's handwriting. Researchers (and, of course, archivists) have always had to learn how to read handwriting, either the conventions of a particular period or a particular individual (I have seen people look quite pale on encountering letters in the hand of my biographical subject: I got used to it). Also, in terms of having crappy handwriting and being extremely thankful for a) learning to type and b) the advent of computers, my own writing was wrecked when I was still at school by the need to take notes. Are we not glad, my dearios, that doctors, a profession historically noted for the awfulness of their writing, now have computer-generated prescriptions?
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Dept of, You Really Don't Need To Make Bucket Lists:
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything. Well, you know, even those of us who read a lot have probably been being extremely selective among what's available.
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Dept of, From What Small Seeds:
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