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.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/11/03/ford-f100-electric-concept-truck-crate-motor-orig.cnn-business

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/home-depot-12-foot-skeleton-inferno/2021/10/24/dff4fb76-32ac-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html

New Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Millennia-Old Mummies Found in China | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/10/27/say-…

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…

by-storm/

https://www.them.us/story/reservation-dogs-devery-jacobs-sydney-freeland-tommy-pico-interview

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-simulated-ne…

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-test-shows-medieval-person-buried-sword-and-womens-clothing-may-have-been-intersex-180978407/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/kids-shows-tiny-details-jokes

https://www.wionews.com/science/neanderthals-population-might-have-declined-due-to-sex-with-humans-study-403707

https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/amp/ethnic-group-in-the-philippines…

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…

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9572542/lin-manuel-miranda-in-the-heights-movie-interview/

http://thecoachellareview.com/2021/01/19/interview-a-conversation-with-the-ladies-of-the-fright

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-so-many-sexual-predators-at-indian-residential-schools-escaped-punishment

https://www.wsj.com/articles/colorado-lets-cities-set-their-own-gun-laws-and-boulder…

https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/blog/2021/5/10/mondays-are-for-meat

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/plots-of-nineteen-eighties-movies-if-their-protagonists-had-been-people-of-color?

https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-restore-tribal-homelands-empower-tribal-governments?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.j99aVdSc9J0mr_qnnXtFrzw.rjEmfyN2NVEeTturveXAKRg.lOA4YBV…