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September 24, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 395

Short story: Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories.


Poem: A Hymn to Childhood by Li-Young Lee, listened to on the Poem of the Day, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Talking about Empire by Monica Ali, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on September 24, 2017 13:30

September 23, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 394

Short story: The Tax Man by Bruce Jay, listened to on the Selected Shorts podcast, from September 2017. Recommended.


Poem: O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell by John Keats, listened to through Librivox. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Billy Bookcase, listened to on the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy podcast, from January 2017. Recommended.


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Published on September 23, 2017 01:13

September 22, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 393

Short story: Second Arabesque, Very Slowly by Nancy Kress, from Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Parable of the Old Men and the Young by Wilfred Owen, listened to through Librivox. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Mood Change, listened to on the Sincerely, X, podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.


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Published on September 22, 2017 12:34

September 21, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 392

Short story: In Love is Courage by Stacy Bennett, listened to on the 600 Second Saga podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Your Other Heart by Natalie Shapero, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: What we’re Missing in the Debate About immigration by Duarte Geraldino, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on September 21, 2017 13:07

September 20, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 391

Short story: Mastermind by Reed Farrel Coleman, from USA Noir (2013) edited by Johnny Temple. Recommended.


Poem: Precision German Craftsmanship by Matthew Rohrer, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017.


Essay: Silk Princess Painting, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from June 2010. Recommended.


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Published on September 20, 2017 12:55

September 19, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 390

Short story: As You Would Have Told it to Me (Sort of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, from the New Yorker, September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Orpheus Alone by Mark Strand, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017. Recommended.


Essay: The Big Pharma Conspiracy, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on September 19, 2017 14:55

September 18, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 389

Short story: The Adventure of the Musgrave Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Recommended.


Poem: Claustrophilia by Alice Fulton, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Authenticity by Monica Ali, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on September 18, 2017 14:45

September 17, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 388

Short story: A Queen in Exile by Sharon K. Penman, from Dangerous Women (2013), edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Recommended.


Poem: Asperges Me by Timothy Murphy, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017.


Essay: Living Sculptures that Stand for History’s Truths by Sethembile Msezane, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from September 2017.


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Published on September 17, 2017 09:28

September 16, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 387

Short story: Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell by Brandon Sanderson, from Dangerous Women (2013), edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Highly Recommended.


Poem: The Invisible Birds of Central America by Craig Arnold, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from September 2017.


Essay: Compiler, listened to on the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, from January 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on September 16, 2017 14:25

September 15, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 386

Short story: North of Horsefly by K. T. Wagner, listened to on the Centropic Oracle podcast, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats, listened to through Librivox. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Socrates without Plato, listened to on the History of Philosophy podcast, from January 2011. Recommended.


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Published on September 15, 2017 15:42