Here is this week’s list of blog posts, short stories, and other tidbits from my favourite corners of the web.
My Life in Law (a short story). I love this.
Summer Is For Skinny People via mediocreventure. Do you agree? Disagree? I’ve always been skinny to average sized, so this is a new thought to me.
14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch. Would you believe that I’d only read about a third of these before stumbling across this list? It sure surprised me because I read so voraciously!
Staying Present and Grounded in the Age of Information Overload. Originally I was planning to quote something from this interview to whet my reader’s appetites for more, but the whole thing is incredible.
From I Can’t Even:
The other day, while reading some old horror stories, I realized that we’re sitting on a gold mine of such linguistic gambits. One hundred years ago, an American fiction author embarked on a mission of exploring precisely this aesthetic territory—the collapse of language in the face of an emotionally unhinging reality.
From Papers, Please: Why Human Civilization Makes No Sense via CantrellJason:
Let me see if I’ve got this straight.
If I want to become a part of human society and follow the prescribed path most people follow, first I need to fill out this piece of paper.
My reading list has grown thin this summer. What have you been reading?
Current list
Nice! I’m off to my library’s website to see how many of those I can find. 😀