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By Susan Phillips It’s been a while since I last wrote here. I have no clue how long it’s been, but I’m sure George can tell you. He remembers stuff like that much more than I do. What I can tell you is that for the last couple of years...
Ranking cities by population require some choices: in particular, do you focus only the legal boundaries of the city, or on a metropolitan area? If it’s a metropolitan area, how do you decide on the city limits? According to the World...
Dino Dai Zovi made an argument recently that I want to build on. “If you agree that AI will help attackers discover and exploit vulnerabilities 10-100x more easily, then your excess attack surface has also just become 10-100x more of a...
This whole essay is elite sports writing (by Andrew Sharp), and he captures every bit of why we’re lucky to have the Timberwolves to watch. What I love most about the Wolves is the reward they give to people who have been paying...
It’s officially two years since I started this website and began writing and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where I am now compared to where I started. Not because everything-is-fixed kind of way. More in the honest sense of...
Have you recently received an email invitation to be a featured guest at a book festival or conference event? Or to be interviewed on a radio show or podcast? Literary agents, publishers, and major production companies don’t typically...
Romance AudiobookwormsStuff your earbuds day is here!You can download FREE romance audiobooks, across many platforms, for a limited time!This helpful website highlights books with:Black romance and Authors of ColorLGBTQIA+Authors who are...
Romance AudiobookwormsStuff your earbuds day is here!You can download FREE romance audiobooks, across many platforms, for a limited time!This helpful website highlights books with:Black romance and Authors of ColorLGBTQIA+Authors who are...
Dornford Yates was a reliable purveyor of interwar thrillers and romances. He knew exactly what readers wanted and he provided it in lavish dishes: handsome, rugged heroes; beautiful, plucky heroines; sleek cars smoothly speeding through...
I've been updating old posts instead of writing new ones. Here are some recent follow-ups. The post Following Up: Whales, Pandemic Gothic, S-Mart and More first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 356-357: SNEYD HAD MOVED from the Heathfield House to the New Earls Court Hotel only a...
On the persistence of fatphobia, Lindy West's Adult Braces, body positivity, and GLP-1s
Someone compared the nature of our interactions with LLMS, to how we use to ask directions before the era of maps in India. Strangely this reminds me of exactly how you would navigate in parts of India before the Internet became...