And so continues the season of holiday cheer, complete with another week in review from your TBQ editors. Posting will be light this week as we ring in 2014. Share what you’re reading/making/doing in the comments and we’ll see you in the new year!
What We’re Reading: Politics & Culture Edition
The Associated Press, along with approximately 8,437 other news outlets, reports on the running tally of web enrollment at healthcare.gov.
“Daddy Track,” from Liza Mundy in The Atlantic: paternity leave benefits everyone! File under: “we’re so glad this is getting some ink.” See also: “no duh.”
From Salon, Confessions of an Ex-Libertarian: “Perhaps because I’m a big, fat and bald white guy with a mean goatee, racists think I’m on board with them. I am not, and I’m ashamed to admit that my cowardice at confronting this ugliness makes me complicit.”
At Colorlines, Jamilah King profiles Naima Lowe, a queer black artist based in Washington state, and her recent project, Thirty-Nine Questions for White People.
From Huffington Post: Editor, Writer and all-around badass Clarence Haynes reminds us that the recent success of films dramatizing fantasy and sci-fi novels creates the perfect opportunity to re-examine with renewed vigor how these genres have long been spaces to challenge the rigidity with which Western cultures define gender and sexuality. We couldn’t agree more.
Our Last on Year-End Lists
This week, we were pleased to add our own two cents on year-end lists with this roster of indie and small press bounty published in 2013. We hope you find your pleasure therein.
Speaking of pleasure and lists, however, we also found a great deal in reading about Large Hearted Boy and his aggregating pyrotechnics in The New York Times, not to mention perusing the Best of 2013 list from the ever-creative, always-fabulous folk over at Brain Pickings.
And Now We’re Even More Excited for 2014
Okay, we may have spoken too soon when we said we were done with lists. We know, as if you’re not already buried under the weight of your To Be Read pile. Even so, you’ll want to get a load of Flavorwire’s 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2014. I’m already twitching to read Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State, not to mention Julia Fierro’s Cutting Teeth. If you were at our Issue 1 release party in November, you were lucky enough to get a preview of Fierro’s sure-to-be-awesome novel. How serendipitous, then, that we found another of our favorite reads this week over at the Plougshares blog: her interview for the “One Year In – Writing the Novel” series.
Meanwhile, we were also excited (though not surprised) by this Forbes piece listing 8 reasons startup incubators are better than business school. No offense to you B-schoolers out there, but we know from experience how much incubators can rock. Cheers and an exciting 2014 to all our friends at the Made in NY Media Center.
From the TBQ Community, Around the Internets
Bustle: Blog editor Meredith Turits on the disturbing increase in book banning.
Grantland: Advisory editor Jay Caspian Kang on the year in divas.
xojane: Blogger Kayla Tanenbaum on shopping, self, and new year’s resolutions.
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