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Reading Week #21

08.29.2014 by Nicola //

Happy Friday! Again. Where does the time go?

I’m still in California, heading home this weekend.

This week I’ve been mostly reading books (including The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders and Friendship by Emily Gould) and enjoying the last of the sunshine I’ll get this year.

Here are some other interesting reads I found around the internet.

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It’s still Blog Every Day August, but I took it easy this week and published 2 new posts: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge & Letters of Note.

On my business blog, I blogged about Keeping it Relevant on Social Media.

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One of my favourite podcasts, You Must Remember This, is now part of a new podcast network called Infinite Guest – with many more to discover.

Guess what? Millennials are reading ‘traditional’ magazine publishers, too. No kiddin’!

OMFG it’s the PSL! The pumpkin spice latte is back, and this article about it was surprisingly interesting.

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Want to start something online, but feel like you missed your chance? You are not late. Not even close.

Everybody Smiley Poops. Including me. For the ’emoji social network’ she mentions (which is probably satire) I picked smiley poop, shooting star, smiley poop.

Pure productivity porn from Life Hacker. The archive will definitely come back to bite me. I’m Ira Glass, and This is How I Work.

On The Science of Us: What All This Bad News Is Doing to Us?

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Ferguson has been in the news a lot these past couple of weeks. Reniqua Allen writes, It’s time to admit that America will never really include black America.

Wesley Morris mixes Ferguson commentary and film review in Let’s Be Real on Grantland.

Film journalist Matt Zoller Seitz also takes on the issue, and his formative experience in white privilege in his piece Different Rules Apply.

What were your favourite reads of the week?

Reading Week #20

08.22.2014 by Nicola //

It’s Friday! How has your week been? Got nice plans for this weekend?

This weekend I’ll be mostly… kicking it, reading, and maybe enjoying a few cocktails.

It’s summer, after all.

Here are some bits and pieces for you to read this weekend.

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Blog Every Day August continues! Here are this week’s posts: Non-Fiction Book Haul | Book Review: The Opposite of Loneliness | #NudgeYourWorld Parts I – II – III – IIII |

On my business blog, I blogged about Why I Freelance.

I also reviewed J by Howard Jacobson for The List.

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It’s almost 2 weeks since we lost one of the greats: Robin Williams. Here are 2 great pieces about him, one from Anthony Lane (for my money, the best film critic working) and Mara Wilson’s Remembering Robin.

Guardians of the Galaxy & the Rise of Post-Plot Cinema. Or, why does nothing happen in blockbusters anymore? Steven Zeitchik tells us more.

Philosophy meets physicality on the New York Times: Should we teach Plato in gym class?

As The Wire recently published, the most likely person to read a book (in the US) is a college educated black woman.

With that in mind, NPR released an excellent 2-part report about diversity in publishing. Here’s are the two parts: In Elite MFA Programs, The Challenge Of Writing While ‘Other’ and To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence.

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A great piece from Jane Friedman: Reasons to Be Optimistic During the Disruption of Publishing.

I’m all about this argument that you should Leave Work at 2pm and Go For a Walk. (And I ain’t coming back!)

Between ongoing wars, Ferguson and other horrors, ever wonder What All This Bad News is Doing to Us? Me, too.

Another reading list recommendation for you, this time from Jessica Furseth. Here’s Reading List: Black Coffee Edition.

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Ann Friedman wrote An Ode to Being 29. I’m almost looking forward to it. *Almost.*

How to Be Polite. Hint: It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

I Feel Guilty for Not Being the Breadwinner – an interesting take on money management in equal relationships.

What have you been reading this week?

Reading Week #2 – 04/04/14

04.04.2014 by Nicola //

It’s link list time again!

The above is a recent read – My Misspent Youth by Megan Daum. Recommended.

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52 Books: March Reads (check back this weekend)

#FridayReads – 04/04/14

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“I see a lot of writing that describes what a piece of art is about, not so much about how it is about it.”
— Matt Zoller Seitz. Please, critics, write about the filmmaking.

The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women. In which the new FiveThirtyEight is already giving me warm and fuzzy feelings.

I enjoyed these Time Out comment reviews of Under the Skin more than most of the professional ones I’ve read.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw points out the inherent sexism in, like, every Captain America review ever.

Jeopardy champ & author Tom Nissley may have bombed in his Tournament of the Decades which aired this week, but then he went and bought a bookshop!

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What You Think You Know About The Web is Wrong. In which attention beats clicks. (Well, no shit.)

I blogged about measuring the success of your social media efforts — yanno, if you’re interested.

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Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore? Psych!

“[We don’t need] one more guy with a Jew-fro writing about Bruce Springsteen — I mean, it’s a crime! It must stop! David Remnick wrote a profile about Bruce Springsteen, he assigned that to himself. How dare he! That should not have happened. I mean, I didn’t read it, but I’m sure it was a terrible piece of writing.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel on the Longform Podcast made me lol at work. She is also pretty insufferable.

The Current debated Lena Dunham as a feminist icon back in January. Features Roxane Gay and Kate Carraway, among others.

Speaking of Roxane Gay, she wrote a great (& true) piece in defence of unlikeable female characters: Not Here to Make Friends

Megan Daum points out that you can’t put a trigger warning on life. Kinda disappointed that my alma mater is in on this. (I should state that I’m not anti-trigger warning, just that one can’t expect to be coddled from everything one finds upsetting or repulsive.)

How Not to Quit — Sarah Nicole Prinkett owes you (well, her readers) her career.

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Turns out Glasgow thinks it’s a good idea to blow up some people’s former homes as an Opening Ceremony spectacle. Not cool, Glasgow 2014.

This made me want a tiny tattoo.

What were your best reads of the week? Hit me up with your links on Twitter!