Ancient Grains Archive

Link Roundup!

The world has lost a great milliner and a cool lady.

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Modern Farmer has an incredible piece by an undocumented farm worker, the first in a series:

The work is hard — but many jobs are ...Read More

Watching Awful Gay Movies With Autostraddle: Lost and Delirious

You were promised an intense and fevered discussion of bad gay movies; now you shall reap the whirlwind. We begin with 2001's Lost and Delirious, a truly terrible movie about girls falling in love at the world's least carefully monitored boarding school. First, let us meet the cast of characters. Myself and ...Read More

A Very Important Question About Redwall

A follow-up question to yesterday's post about alternate worlds with sentient animals: is the Redwall universe coterminous with our own? That is to say, do humans exist somewhere near Mossflower County? Are the scattered animal strongholds of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey more like the Shire in Middle-Earth, which is populated exclusively by non-humans ...Read More

Three Poems

You Can Take It In Spades At the blood donation center I am my most brave self and it is early early, but I’ve been up for a while. I had to eat breakfast, a strange undertaking. I stood over the sink chewing a chunk of baguette that did not want to go down. Remember when I bet you ...Read More

Almost Asatru, or “I was into Loki before he was cool”

Even after shedding the trappings of my childhood religion and becoming functionally atheist, certain events can still inspire religious fear or guilt. For example, not attending sunrise services on Easter will sometimes suckerpunch me with guilt -- who am I to buck 2,000 years of tradition just to sleep in? A friend ...Read More

Study Finds Ice Caps Very Normal, No Need To Come Visit

Scientists, who should know, would like to report after years of exhaustive study that all of the ice is fine and there's no need for you to come see for yourself. Don't come to where the ice is. Don't come to where the north ice is, don't come to where the south ...Read More

Don’t Call It a Comeback: Renata Adler, Back in Print

Renata Adler's Speedboat (Amazon | NYRB Classics) chronicles the misadventures of a student at a woman's college who (illegally) owns an alligator, the Celtic knot of French wait-in-this-line-to-wait-in-this-line bureaucracy, a speedboat journey that leads to a broken back, and the inability of bougie ...Read More

Alternate NaNoWriMo Taglines

Once again inspired by Friend of The Toast Emily Gould. (Previously: Male Novelist Jokes.) National Novel Writing Month November 1-30 | "NaNoWriMo: The world needs your novel." National Novel Writing Month November 1-30 | "NaNoWriMo: They're all gonna ...Read More