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2023 in Reading

A bit of an odd reading year. Productive, but with most books occupying an uncomfortable middle place between research and pleasure (novels picked up…

Dec 31, 2023 •

October 2023

Sources Cited: Emily Brooks

A police department's internal magazine and the criminalization of young women

Oct 15, 2023 •

August 2023

Sources Cited: Stephanie Barczewski

An exiled estate owner and an empire's conception of itself

Aug 20, 2023 •

Sources Cited: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Science reporters and the government's quiet search for a malaria treatment

Aug 6, 2023 •

July 2023

Sources Cited: Back from a break

A recap of some stories behind the stories

Jul 30, 2023 •

June 2023

Sources Cited: Eleanor Parker

A calendar-in-verse and an Anglo-Saxon year

Jun 25, 2023 •

Sources Cited: Amy Paeth

The poetry wars and its philanthropic backers

Jun 11, 2023 •

May 2023

Sources Cited: Jonathan Bratten

The Lewiston Evening Journal and one unit's World War I story

May 28, 2023 •

Sources Cited: Melissa L. Sevigny

A pith helmet and the two botanists who ran the Grand Canyon

May 14, 2023 •

April 2023

Sources Cited: Kerri K. Greenidge

The New York Age and the writing of The Grimkes

Apr 30, 2023 •

Sources Cited: A New Series

A new series where writers talk about the research stories behind the written ones.

Apr 23, 2023 •

April 2022

Sophomore Writing

The (public) start of a new project

Apr 14, 2022 •

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