Links: Irish Music, a Writer’s Fellowship, & More

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.Welcome back to Wednesday Links! I’m still in Florida and let’s just say it isn’t going super well.

My flight was also delayed by a giant man baby refusing to wear a mask and then cursing out a plane mostly full of families going to Disney.

On the bright side, I did get a pretty sporty rental car and I went to Atlanta for the Georgia Aquarium to finally see their whale sharks.

In the recent Hide Your Wallet, Sneezy mentioned a nonfiction title called The Dark Fantastic. Well apparently it’s part of a larger collection of pop culture nonfiction that sounds pretty fucking cool with titles like Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility and Open TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television. Keep in mind that these are clearly designed to be textbooks, so they’re on the pricier side.

The President of Ireland has an 8-month old Bernese Mountain Dog and it acts just as you’d expect.

Calling all writers! We Need Diverse Books has announced LitUp, LitUp, a women’s writer’s fellowship for unpublished, underrepresented voices. In conjunction with Reese’s Book Club Hello Sunshine and Madcap Retreats, LitUp is offering an all-expenses-paid writer’s retreat, a three month mentorship with a published author, and marketing support from Reese’s Book Club to five writers.

Check out LitUp for more information. Apply by May 30, 2021.

I wanted to share this quote:

Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to the original canon, sometimes it’s just that one telegram that says “Fuck you. Strongly worded letter to follow”.

Credit: Mary P. Sue on Tumblr

If you’re a music nerd or just like learning new things, here’s a breakdown of Irish music (specifically jigs) and how they can be turned into pop song covers.

Sarah: I was honored (which is not a big enough word but that’s what I’m going with right now) to be a guest on Hear to Slay, the podcast hosted by Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom, to talk about Beverly Cleary.

If you’re not a Luminary subscriber, you can hear an excerpt from the interview on Apple Podcasts.

Sarah: While we’re getting increased vaccination news in the US, the COVID outbreak in India is heartbreakingly bad. It can be challenging to find places to offer help or donations internationally, but lovely people on the internet have compiled some options, including:

If you have additional suggestions, please share them.

Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!

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  1. Jill Q. says:

    Slightly off-topic, but I just wanted to drop a note here and say thank you to Sarah for recommending Midnight Diner to the Smart Bs. My husband and I have tastes that overlap, but only in weird ways and finding something that is often funny and sweet (but too embarrassing/cringy or dark/depressing) *and* has* food is an amazing gift for us. It’s been perfect comfort food pandemic watching for us. I’ve really enjoying watching the little side relationships grow between the recurring characters.

  2. Ren Benton/Lena Brassard says:

    Dr. Brandy Schillace is launching the PECULIAR BOOK CLUB: ESTEEMED HOME OF THE QUIRKY, QUIZZICAL, CURIOUS, AND BIZARRE for “dates with your favorite authors of strange history, medical marvels, and weird science.” Begins in June with first guest Mary Roach. Details and signup here:

    https://brandyschillace.com/peculiar/

  3. Heather M says:

    Those pop culture books make me really miss working in a library; that’s exactly the type of nonfiction series I would have gravitated towards whenever I managed to get my hands on the nonfiction budget (sadly always too small, but I loved making pie-in-the-sky wishlists that I could pull from whenever we did have some extra)

    No particular links but I’ve spent all week randomly choosing cities on Atlas Obscura to look up fun travel destinations. No, I’m not feeling trapped AT ALL….anyway, it’s an interesting time-waster.

    Sorry you’re stuck in Florida, Amanda! (I say that as someone who lives here).

  4. chacha1 says:

    That giant puppy is such a puppy.

  5. Deirdre says:

    That’s the third Bernese Mountain Dog my President has had. When one died there was nearly a national day of mourning announced. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/president-higgins-announces-death-of-his-dog-s%C3%ADoda-1.4359524
    They have a twitter feed https://twitter.com/BrodHiggins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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