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.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451 (seriously, this is the best read ever)

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/this-land-belongs-to-the-mi-kmaq-people-historic-land-transfer-on-nova-scotia-s-south-shore-1.5683773

https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3693831/peta-channels-leatherface-faux-urban-outraged-clothing-line-made-genuine-human-leather/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-…

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October was so, so, so busy with events &etc, much etc, that . . . I either wasn’t jotting stuff down for this, or I wasn’t watching a lot. I was reading a lot, but most of it doesn’t have covers yet . . .

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/22/neanderthal-mans-recreated-face-takes-internet-

The Many Saints Of Newark Ending Explained: Who Made Tony Soprano?

https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joro-spiders-invasive-georgia_n_615871e0e4b0487c855f6263

https://www.sfchronicle.com/proj…

Couldn’t have been a better time. My favorite film of the fest (that I caught): The Spine of Night. But, man, did I dig The Sadness, too.

Anyway, here’s what stuff I saved off social media, along with some few snapshots (which — they may be some doubling there, apologies):