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[cofax7]

John Crowley writes an appreciation of Joan Aiken's Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and the sequels involving Dido Twite. (Ignore the headline, which is blatant clickbait--Rowling is barely mentioned in the essay.) (SF Signal)

MGK has a pretty cool piece of LotR-based fanfiction here, which is not unrelated to Jim Hines' essay about the way goblins

Comments

[fengi]

Okay. The NYT hasrshly reviews a Michael Jackson book as a bland rehash save the wild theory he died a virgin for which the author "does not present any persuasive evidence", criticizes the weak and dubious sourcing and concludes watching youtube clips would be better "than reading this bloated and thoroughly dispensable book." The book flops but the author's calculated sensationalistic money quote riles some lunatic fans who bomb the comments. The NYT then uses this as the sole example for a hyperbolic trend piece with almost no sourcing that glosses over the severity of their own review and obvious other reasons it didn't sell. I find it utterly depressing that Jessa would fall for that, particulary when she has written takedowns of other poorly sourced hyperbolic trend pieces about women. I suspect when the trend confirms ones own views/fears the journalistic evasions don't matter.

[cofax7]

Well, really, isn't the NYT in the habit of hyperbolic trend pieces? It's what they do.

[vivwiley]

Are you around this weekend? I will be in SF for meetings fri and sat. Dinner on sat or brunch sun? Vivwiley at yahoo is a reliable way to reach me if you can play. Hope you are well.

[cofax7]

I sent email to your Yahoo account!

[rednikki]

Thanks for that Paleo critique link. I have a couple of friends who are focused on that era and find the Paleo diet laughable.

[rednikki]

By the way, just out of curiosity and because you are the most active-on-both-sites person I know: do you find that you get more activity/feedback from folks on DW or on LJ?

[cofax7]

It kind of depends. I suspect that the more explicitly fannish discussion tends to happen over on DW. But even that is just a guess.

[katie_m]

The thing that always strikes me about older menus is the extent to which they do not believe in vegetables. Granted, some of that is going to be a seasonal issue here, and it's not like they were going to be importing anything from the south, but still. Can a girl get a carrot up in here?