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Friday, March 31, 2023

Fen, Bog & Swamp

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 Annie Proulx, "Fen, Bog & Swamp", Scribner, 2022. pp. 100-101 I learned to read from recognizing the skeleton letters of word...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots

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  Euan Ward, "Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots, Uncovered by Amateur Code Breakers,"  New York Times, Feb. 8, 2023.  https://w...

H-1B visa lottery starts next week.

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Palak Jayswal, "The H-1B visa lottery starts next week. Here’s why some experts say the process makes it hard to hire international tal...

Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians

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  Taylor Brorby, "The Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians" New York Times, Feb. 24, 2023. https://www.nyt...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Democracy's Data

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 Dan Bouk. Democracy's Data the Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them .  Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. I had read ab...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Transgender or Devoutly Christian?

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"Transgender or devoutly Christian? An Iowa teen refuses to choose." by Casey Parks Washington Post , December 23, 2022. Theirs wa...
Monday, October 17, 2022

How do we Turn Symptoms into Words?

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 Rachel Aviv, "How do we Turn Symptoms into Words?", New York Times , October 16, 2022, pSR4-5. Ms. Gaines-Young ended up incarcer...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Factor Separation Into the Divorce Equation

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 Emily O. Gravett, "Factor Separation Into the Divorce Equation," [Modern Love] New York Times,  Oct. 16, 2022 p. ST6.  Monomaniac...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Forget the Book on Impractical Boundaries

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 Sophia Ortega.  "Forget the Book on Impractical Boundaries"  (Modern Love], New York Times, October 2, 2022 p. ST6. Around this t...

The Disinformation Machine

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 Nancy McLean. The Disinformation Machine. Orion Magazine, 2022.  https://orionmagazine.org/article/koch-network-climate-change-misinformati...
Monday, February 28, 2022

I Witnessed a Fatal Bike Crash. It Changed Me Forever.

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Amelia Arvesen, "I  Witnessed a Fatal Bike Crash. It Changed Me Forever." Outside Online.  December 13, 2021. https://www.outsideo...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Mamoudou Athie Loves the Library

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 "Momoudou Athie Loves the Library" (Headliner, My Ten). New York Times,  February 27, 2022, p. AR8. 8. New York Public Library Th...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

The public library is the latest place to pick up a coronavirus test. Librarians are overwhelmed.

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  Julie Zauzmer Weil, " The public library is the latest place to pick up a coronavirus test. Librarians are overwhelmed", Washing...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Lots of People Want to Check Out this Library

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 Kate Dwyer. "Lots of People Want to Check Out this Library", New York Times,  January 16, 2022, p. ST3.  After Dr. Mackesy's ...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Being Homeless Cost Me $54,000

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 Lori Teresa Yearwood, "Being Homeless Cost Me $54,000", New York Times January 2, 2022, p. SR10. By the beginning of 2015, I had ...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Things I Would Never Do

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Cailin Flanagin, "The Things I Would Never Do" Atlantic Dec 23, 2021 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/cancer-tee...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

The Stranger I Become

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 Katherine Coles, "The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking and Writing",  Turtle Point Press, 2021. The author gratefully ackno...

A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives

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 Jennifer Schuessler, "A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives", New York Times , December 10, 2021. https://w...

Chloe Kim Is Grown Up and Ready for the Olympic Spotlight

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  John Branch, "Chloe Kim Is Grown Up and Ready for the Olympic Spotlight," New York Times,  Kezia Dickson, a student from New Yor...

A Place Built By Poets for Poets

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 Jessica Kassiwabara. A Place Built by Poets for Poets. Poets & Writers , Jan/Feb 2022, p. 15-17. In 2013, Sims noticed a disconnect bet...