Curated links.

Favorite Essay I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• I Found God at Queer Summer Camp, Narratively

Favorite Flash Fiction I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Recesses, Brenden Layte

Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
• Call Up the Waters, Amber Caron
• Life Hack, Patricia Callahan
• In the Gloaming, Alice Elliott Dark

Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Being named one of the magazine’s Best Young British Novelists “left Derek Owusu feeling jaded and self-conscious.”
• Find joy in writing

Etcetera

• On the intimate costs of becoming an American
• On writing a biracial protagonist
• Authors and booksellers urge Justice Department to investigate Amazon
• Compassion is the greatest virtue
• “You do you,” The war on compassion
• AI stole my name
• The World is going blind. Taiwan offers a warning and a cure.
• Pulitzers look to open books and arts prizes to noncitizens
• Buried under the ice
• We don’t have to wait 40 years to do the right thing

Did You Know?

If you’re wondering about the meaning of my name—Banchiwosen—and you search for its meaning in English you won’t find one. In Ethiopia, we have an Amharic alphabet. To write our names in English we use letters from the English alphabet, a combination of consonants and vowels close to the sound of our names in Amharic. I love that I get to tell this to people (who are not Ethiopians) who ask me about my name.