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July 29, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 339
Short story: A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway, from Short Story Collection, Denis Johnson,
Poem: Destroying Beauty by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.
Essay: How Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality by Anil Seth, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 27, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 338
Short story: Emergency by Denis Johnson, listened to on the Selected Shorts podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.
Poem: Grand Expensive Vista by Andrew Hudgins, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Don’t Fear Superintelligent AI by Grady Booch, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 26, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 337
Short story: A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway, from Short Story Collection. Recommended.
Poem: When Hugo Wolfe Went Mad by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Amelia Earhart Redux, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 25, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 336
Short story: A Canary for One by Ernest Hemingway, from Short Story Collection. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Jackfruit by Xuan Huong, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.
Essay: The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from June 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 24, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 335
Short story: Ghost of the Shoals by Sandra M. Odell, listened to on the PodCastle podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.
Poem: The Life of Borodin by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.
Essay: A Focus on Fasting by Christopher Kissane, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 334
Short story: Dinosaur Killers by Chris Kluwe, from Lightspeed magazine, November 2016.
Poem: The Bluet by James Schuyler, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.
Essay: The Shi Jung by Jacke Wilson, listened to on the History of Literature podcast, from December 2015. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 23, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 333
Short story: In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway, from Short Story Collection. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Layover by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Recommended.
Essay: Lifesaving Sciencetific Tools Made of Paper by Manu Prakash, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 22, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 332
Short story: Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel by E. Lily Yu, from Clarkesworld magazine, December 2013. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Green Red Brown and White by May Swenson, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast. Recommended.
Essay: Understanding Drug Addiction by Hanna Pickard, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 21, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 331
Short story: Everything is Far from Here by Cristina Henriquez, from the New Yorker, July 2017. Highly Recommended.
Poem: As the Sparrow by Charles Bukowski, from Bukowski: Essential Poetry. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Time Travel by James Gleik, listened to on the Long Now: Seminars About Long-Term Thinking podcast, from June 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?


July 20, 2017
Basilisk on a Yellow Field featured on the 600 Second Saga podcast
My short story Basilisk on a Yellow Field is now available on the 600 Second Saga podcast.
The story was first published on this website and features in my collection Her Name Was Red.
Listen to the story on series 2, episode 16 of the podcast here:

