Resource Roundup #13
For the week of July 16th.
Hello folks, and happy Friday. After a week mostly off-grid up in the mountains, I can say that I finally feel like I have caught up to summer. I am bringing back the version of myself that used to spend weeks up here as a child, rolling through grass and bathing in creeks. I love her.
Plenty of good resources for your weekend below, and as always, feel free to reach out with recommendations, thoughts, suggestions, or just to say hi. You know where to find me:
NPR has a joy generator, if you need something good this week.
On the front page of Bookshop.org right now. I personally own the Appalachian Reckoning anthology, and highly recommend it.
Advice for aspiring artists whose parents want them to be engineers. Been there, done that. (And all I’ll say is that I was one of the few people I knew with a job coming out of undergrad).
These incredible photos by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu of the flight path of fireflies, via Smithsonian Magazine.
I’m really into this essay in The Believer about survivalist culture, homesteading, and preppers. Prepper camp— I’m fascinated. I kind of want to go. I’m not sure if I would hate these people or fit right in. I just realized I am within an hour of this camp at the moment. Of course this is North Carolina. I love my home.
The Low Blow covered Boygenius’ Me and My Dog.
As someone planning to go on to do a M.A. in American Mythology, I of course am wildly excited about the podcast Old Gods of Appalachia, which tells the stories of folktales, strange happenings, and other mysteries out in the hills and hollers.
I was recently alerted to Anna Marie Tendler’s Instagram, which looks a lot like an American Gothic paradise:
Alright, that’s all for today, folks. See you Monday.