Category: General
Stuff I’m thinking about.
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Worth Reading: Milo Todd’s The Lilac People
Once again, I’ve learned something I feel like I should have known about the experience of trans people — only this time, it wasn’t simple ignorance; it was at least partially the result of silence.
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The New Pynchon is Here!
Reasonably good timing: I just finished Brian Eno and Bette A.’s What Art Does, so I didn’t have to set anything aside to start Pynchon’s just-released Shadow Ticket.
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A stack of gift books, round 2
Top photo by me. And now, I present the second round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using the balance of a retirement gift from my colleagues. Unlike the first round, which I more or less impulsively bought based on what was available in the store, I special-ordered these.
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A stack of gift books, round 1
Here’s the first round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using some generous gift certificates I’d accrued — a retirement gift from my colleagues, as well as a birthday gift from The Younger and a Christmas gift from his mom. These were, for the most part, impulse buys, based on what the store had in stock.
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