September always feels like the real beginning of the year to me. Back to school. Back to work. Here’s what I was working this year in September.
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Fever Dream
Although I proceed at almost the pace of Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk, I’m reading my way around the world. After reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John for Antigua and Barbuda at the end of 2021, the next nation on the list was Argentina. I ended up reading Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream. Months have passed since I read it, but it’s still just as sharp in mind as when I put it down. Which is to say, it’s pretty fuzzy. early in 2022, but I’m only now getting around to writing about it.
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Published in August
Since I was on vacation for a big chunk of July, I didn’t submit as many articles as usual. But most people are outside in August instead of reading articles at their desk, so it’s a good time to publish less. That said, there are a few things you might have missed while you were enjoying the summer. Read them here now.
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Music I Like: Indigenous Metal
Long ago, I wrote a post on Indigenous artists I like, and mysteriously, none of them were heavy metal. That’s just plain weird. There were hardly any Native students at my high school, but lots of them at the heavy metal concerts I went to as a teenager in Arizona. So metal is the musical style I most closely associate with Native Americans. And there are a lot of really great Indigenous metal bands here in the U.S. and around the world. Here are a few that I like.
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Published in June and July 2022
In June I was all about that hustle. I needed to get ahead of my deadlines to clear my schedule for my first vacation since 2019. That most welcome break came in July, which means I had a lot fewer new publications in that month, and a lot more reprints. But now I’ve got a big vacation to pay off, so if the links below don’t give you enough to read, I’ll have plenty of new material for you next month.
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