This month I'm focusing on completing (hopefully) the Vander Meers' mammoth anthology The Weird, so likely it will be another month with a small total.
- NYer 2/26/24. Pretty good story about Afghan community in Sacramento by Jamil Jan Kochai.
- The Nation Feb. 24. The Desi community may be big enough to swing the election.
- Empty Theater by Jac Jemc. More a speculative dual biography than anything else.
- NYer 3/4/24. "Eat" by Joy Harjo.
- The Scandal of Father Brown. GKC. I don't have a great memory (ha ha) but these are not the best, nor are they the worst FB stories. I liked the last ("The Vampire of the Village") the best (
- The Weird by VanderMeer and VanderMeer. About 500 pages too long.
- Chesterton: Man and Mask by Garry Wills. Thorough survey of his career, best is stand-alone essay on Thursday. Very little on Father Brown, but considers "The Fairy Tale of FB" to be the most significant (last one before conversion).
- EQQM Nov/Dec 22.
- NYer 10/3/22. Owner of EDM nightclub in Ibiza sez "The problem with this kind of music is you have to take drugs to listen to it."
- NYer 3/18/24. Liberal arts curricula coopted by the right wing.
- The Arab of the Future. Vol. 1. Didn't like the visual style, found the pacing to be boring, and children torture a dog. Will not be continuing.
