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February 21, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 181

Short story: The Rape of Lucrece by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Two Guardians by Roberto Tejada, listened to on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


Essay: You and the Atom Bomb by George Orwell, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on February 21, 2017 03:47

February 20, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 180

Short story: Connection by Lynette Meija, listened to on the Far Fetched Fables podcast, from January 2017.


Poem: Late Spring by Campbell McGrath, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Oxus Chariot Model, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from February 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on February 20, 2017 04:27

February 19, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 179

Short story: Wrestling Jesus by Joe R. Lansdale, (2013) from Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Songs of Innocence by William Blake, listened to through Librivox. Higlhy Recommended.


Essay: Where is cybercrime really coming from? by Caleb Barlow, listened to on the TED Talks podcast, from January 2017.


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Published on February 19, 2017 01:24

February 18, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 178

Short story: The Book Signing by Pete Hamill, from USA Noir (2013) edited by Johnny Temple. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Night Life by Vivian Smith, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: The Follies of Experts by John Gray, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


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Published on February 18, 2017 01:30

February 17, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 177

Short story: Tuesday’s Siesta by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories.


Poem: Memorandum by W. S. Merwin, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


Essay: How Racism Harms Pregnant Women — and What Can Help by Miriam Zoila Perez, listened to on the TED Talks, from February 2017. Recommended.


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Published on February 17, 2017 03:58

February 16, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 176

Short story: Men of the Ashen Morrow by Margaret Killjoy, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: What is Written on the Body by Peter Pereira, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


Essay: On Creation Myths by Jessica Frazier, listened to on the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Recommended.


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Published on February 16, 2017 01:37

February 15, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 175

Short story: Like a Flight of Ducks by Italo Calvino, from Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories.


Poem: The Village Street by Edgar Allan Poe, listened to throgh Librivox. Recommended.


Essay: The Jobs We’ll Lose to Machines, and the Ones we Won’t by Anthony Goldbloom, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from August 2016. Recommended.


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Published on February 15, 2017 07:55

February 14, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 174

Short story: The Golden Gopher by Susan Straight, from USA Noir (2013) edited by Johnny Temple. Recommended.


Poem: The Rain by Robert Creeley, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from February 2017.


Essay: On Flying and Myth by Frank Cottrell Boyce, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from July 2016. Recommended.


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Published on February 14, 2017 10:32

February 13, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 173

Short story: The Memory Ward by Wendy Nikel, from Nature magazine, June 2016.


Poem: Rx by Eric Amling, listened to on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Building for a New Life by Mark Breeze, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on February 13, 2017 05:54

February 12, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 172

Short story: Tarquin of Cheapside by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. Recommended.


Poem: Oh, for a Home of Rest! by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney, listened to the Voice Before the Void podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommened.


Essay: Coin of Coesus, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from February 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on February 12, 2017 01:43