It feels like I’ve done more blabbing than linking this month, and yet here is the extracted and categorized list of all the links embedded in February’s posts and it’s a whopper! As before, each post is numbered and linked so you can trace the item back to its context, and I’d love to hear what you’ve gotten the most out of.

Housekeeping note: I’ve been posting every-other weekday in Feb and am going to try M/W/F throughout March and see how that feels. I so appreciate your being here and hope you’ve found value in the blog this month! Thank you for your time and support—

ARTICLES & ESSAYS
• The ‘Barbie’ outrage is missing a very important point by Hannah Ryan, CNN.com (#24-07)
• Ava DuVernay on “Disappointing” Awards Recognition for ‘Origin’ by Abbey White and Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter (#24-07)
• ‘Barbie’ Is Adapted? ‘Maestro’ Original? Let’s Fix the Screenplay Categories by Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-07)
• After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays With a Key Theme: Race by by Bernard Mokam, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-07)
• I Sing the Bioelectric by Willow Defebaugh, Atmos (#24-08)
• Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney by The Associated Press (#24-09)
• The new Luddites aren’t backing down by Brian Merchant, The Atlantic (+Apple News link) (#24-09)
• Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves by Emily Anthes, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-11)
• Stinge Watching Is the Opposite of Binge Watching by Jason Kottke, kottke.org (#24-11)
• Legacy of Japan’s Nakagin Capsule Tower lives on in restored pods by Justin McCurry, The Guardian (#24-12)
• In Tokyo, Rescuing the Residential Spaceship That Fell to Earth by Tim Hornyak, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-12)
• The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life by Hollie Richardson, The Guardian (#24-12)
• The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch by Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-12)
• A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise by Ali Breland, Mother Jones (#24-12)
• The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia by Gil Duran, The New Republic (+ Apple News link) (#24-12)
• Sigrid Nunez, The Art of Fiction No. 254 by Lidija Haas, The Paris Review (#24-13)
• Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s ‘Stranger in the Village’ by Teju Cole, The New Yorker (#24-15)
• Okwui Enwezor, Curator Who Remapped Art World, Dies at 55 (2019) by Jason Farago, The New York Times (Gift Link)* (#24-15)
• Bisi Silva, Founding Artistic Director of Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Has Died at 57 (2019) by Alex Greenberger, ArtNews (#24-15)
• Distance of Days (Two Elegies) by Teju Cole, Brittle Paper (#24-15)

BOOKS**
• Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (#24-07) (haven’t read yet)
• Tremor by Teju Cole (#24-07, #24-13) (highly recommended)
• Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian (#24-12) (haven’t read)
• Every Day Is for The Thief by Teju Cole (#24-13) (good, but Tremor is better)
• One Day by David Nicholls (#24-14) (haven’t read)
• Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole (#24-15) (highly recommended)
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (#24-15) (partially read)
• Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole (haven’t read)

PODCAST/TRANSCRIPT
• Teju Cole: Sitting Together in the Dark, ‘On Being’ with Krista Tippett (#24-07)

MOVIES
• Origin written and directed by Ava DuVernay (#24-07) (haven’t seen yet)
• War Games directed by John Badham (#24-09) (recommended)
• Before Sunrise, written and directed by Richard Linklater (#24-14) (recommended)

TV & VIDEO
• One Day, Netflix limited series (#24-14) (highly recommended)

ARTS & MISC
• Slow-motion video of magnificent roseate spoonbill by Deborah Sandidge (#24-08)
• A customizable Penguin Classics pullover pattern by Catherine Waterfield (#24-11)
• Library-card sketches of people reading on the subway by Chris Schwaar (#24-11)
• Make your own State Smock by State the Label (#24-11)
• “Small acts” that add up by Morgan Harper Nichols (#24-11)
• Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and the Metabolism movement (#24-12)
• California Forever (#24-12)
• Fyre Festival (#24-12)

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