Novel

Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster:

Poetry

It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably be reading it again. Which is to say: I agree with the Pulitzer committee:

Fight Scene

A new category, but this scene warrants it:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db5qa/hunter-brittain-arkansas-teen-holding-antifreeze-shot-killed-sheriffs-deputy

https://scroll.in/article/998630/a-new-extinct-human-species-found-in-china-may-replace-neanderthals-as-our-closest-relatives

https://www.businessinsider.com/female-lawyers-dress-codes-law-firm-court-discrimin…

Here I am hanging with Boulder Bookstore and Pam Houston, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-29/larry-mcmurtry-early-work-obliterated-western-cliches

‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Trollhunter,’ and the Birth of Found Footage Monster Movies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-surviving-wood-sculpture-even-older-previously-thought-180977320/

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-school-shooting-that-austin-fo…

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(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )

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