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July 10, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 320

Short story: Saint Pantaleone by Tony Tulathimutte, listened to on the Selected Shorts podcast, from June 2017. Recommended.


Poem: I Wanna Be Ur Lover (1979) by Douglas Kearney, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: My Year Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on July 10, 2017 06:03

July 9, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 319

Short story: The Descent of Man by Christopher Weber, from Nature, June 2017. Recommended.


Poem: The Operation by Anne Sexton, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Gold Coin of Kumaragupta I, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from June 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on July 09, 2017 12:32

July 8, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 317

Short story: Her Big Chance by Alan Bennett, from Talking Heads. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Buddy Caesar and his Starlighters by W. S. Di Piero, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Resisting Tyranny by Jonathan Healey, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.


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Published on July 08, 2017 04:55

July 7, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 316

Short story: Fresh and Finite by Aaron Moskalik, listened to on the Centropic Oracle podcast, from June 2017.


Poem: 67P/C-6 by John Tipton, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from June 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Noam Chomsky by Barry Smith, listened to on the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Recommended.


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Published on July 07, 2017 12:07

July 6, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 315

Short story: Mortal Eyes by Ann Chatham, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2017. Recommended.


Poem: Hot by Cislyn Smith, from Strange Horizons, May 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Being Transgender by Juno Dawson, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on July 06, 2017 10:14

July 5, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 314

Short story: Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft, listened to on the Voice Before the Void podcast.


Poem: She Lived by Lucille Clifton, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from June 2017. Recommended.


Essay: The Mark of a Man by Will Self, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from July 2017.


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Published on July 05, 2017 05:14

July 4, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 313

Short story: Requiem for Solo Cello by Damien Angelica Walters, from Apex Magazine, February 2015. Highly Recommended.


Poem: I Fight Monsters by Richard Ford, from Strange Horizons, May 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: What are the Chances You’re Psychic, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from June 2017.


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Published on July 04, 2017 07:08

July 3, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 312

Short story: Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother by David Means, from the New Yorker, May 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: How to Breathe on Venus by Symanatha Reagor, from Strange Horizons, May 2017.


Essay: Seated Buddha from Gandhara, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from May 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on July 03, 2017 05:22

July 2, 2017

the Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 311

Short story: Soldiering On by Alan Bennett, from Talking Heads. Recommended.


Poem: Time to Want by E. Kristin Anderson, from Strange Horizons, May 2017. Recommended.


Essay: How to Design a Library the Makes Kids Want to Read by Michael Bierut, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from June 2017. Recommended.


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Published on July 02, 2017 09:56

July 1, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 310

Short story: Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Highly Recommended.


Poem: To Milton by Oscar Wilde, listened to through Librivox. Recommended.


Essay: After Grenfell by Will Self, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from June 2017. Recommended.


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Published on July 01, 2017 09:05