Weekend Listening Post (+ links)

[highlyeccentric]

As usual I have made very little headway with podcasts, as in, nil. I HAVE been able to concentrate on audiobook again, a bit, and am about an hour from finishing 'What Belongs To You'.

Music, however, is new!

Acquired: The King Princess EP 'Make My Bed', which is okay but no patch on her album. Two albums by Namoli Brennet, a trans woman country singer: her earliest, Boy In A Dress, and her latest, The Simple Life.

Watch on YouTube

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Some links:

Brandon Taylor (Lit Hub), Going quiet as the world goes loud: on private anxiety in a very public pandemic

Irina Dmitrescu (Lit Hub), Someone is wrong on the internet: a study in pandemic distraction

Amy Poeppel (Lit Hub), I can't believe readers are still getting upset over f*cking swearing

Gnaomi Seimens (Words Without Borders), Translating the ancient female voice as queer. I am not without qualms about some of the assumptions underlying this, but it is interesting.

Zadie Smith (NYRB), Fascinated to presume: in defense of fiction. Here Smith argues *for* writing the "other" and is troubled by the strict emphasis on own-voice/own-experience writing. It would be doing her a disservice to say that that is all this article does, though, and she has a lot of deft nuance around who writes which other and the role of stereotyping.

Jonathan (Interfaith Now), The purity hoax. On Elizabeth Elliot, the Evangelical sex/marriage advice author.

Comments

[coriana]

That Zadie Smith essay is A LOT. I'm going to have to read it again tomorrow (and then maybe write something about why I stopped being a writer).