Wildlife of Unknown Status
The only way forward when you’re lost in the woods, Frost once wrote, is straight ahead. But where is the Florida jungle straight?
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Loch Ness Monster
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Benji Hughes’s Pareidolia
Love is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most.
Weekly Geekery
Religion and science in the ancient world. It’s okay Nessie, there are some who still believe. Reforming Reddit. Women’s labor and online games.
Weekly Geekery
What we need is a kinder, gentler robot. The currency of clicks. Using Google to find a monster. Shedding your own skin. Thinking beyond extinction.
Weekly Geekery
Smart phones are tracking your perfect student. The important warnings of sci-fi’s dystopian tales. Because you are interested in the Loch Ness monster. Online rumors and lies and the science…
“Black Eyes and Oozing Bullet Wounds”
Liz Wyckoff’s interview with Laura van den Berg for Tin House is a nice complement to our own. They talk about cohesion in short-story collections, faraway settings, and van den Berg’s…
Waterworld
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.