Amidst increasing calls to “memorialize slavery’s ties with Glasgow in a more sensitive way,” Scottish poet Kate Tough recently published a tribute poem, “People Made Glasgow.” Tough calls on the city to install a permanent slavery exhibit, a memorial garden, or new street names as well.
Brutalised Africans Made Glasgow
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Man Middle School Was Rough, Huh?
"[B]eing twelve is its own psychosexual dystopian satire, and I was not in on the joke." Abbey Fenbert writes for Catapult about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, reading-while-tween, and being a seventh-grade book censor. See also: our own brave editor-in-chief, Lydia Kiesling, on reading Huxley a week after last November's election.
Reconstruction
Recommended Reading: On lyric essays and trauma at Ploughshares. “I didn’t start writing lyric essays until I found out I had cancer. The melanoma buried in my right cheek was at first missed, and then misdiagnosed in its severity. Clark’s stage IV, they told me. Likely in my lymph nodes, but they wouldn’t know until my third surgery, the excision and biopsy.”
Will the Real Philip Roth Please Stand Up?
Breaking news: turns out Philip Roth doesn't actually have a Twitter account.
Best of Full Stop
Sure, you could look ahead to the happenings of 2012, but that's only half as fun as recapping Full Stop's 2011 "Best of the Blog" archives. (Part 2 here)
Only A Bit, Though
Fun fact: your e-reader gets heavier with each new book you add.
Share Your Ebooks
Amazon now lets you "lend" your ebooks to other readers for a period of 14 days. And, in an interesting touch that adds a physical limitation to a digital product, you can't read a book you've lent to someone while they're borrowing it.