Photo: George Tan

My picks for #sundayread for April 21, 2019:

• Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
  (I created this downloadable PDF with searchable text, allowing for copy/paste and narration by text-to-speech apps.)
  https://buff.ly/2KSgtqO
• Listening to Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” (60 hours!) was a lush, memorable, epic experience. Highly recommended.
  https://buff.ly/2L04DL4
• .@JasonTorchinsky Took Amtrak Instead of Flying, and It Made Him Want to Die a Little Bit.
• A look at @NathaliaHolt’s “Rise of the Rocket Girls”
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (via @EllesLohuis)
• Flashback: The Ultimate Goal of Not Having a Goal
• He’s done 120 movies over nearly 40 years. We might think we know @SamuelLJackson. But do we?
  By @CarvellWallace
• Flashback: Is blogging part of your marketing tapestry?
• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
  By Mark Bergen @mhbergen
• Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered
  By Michelle Dean
• Change the Story in Your Head Stopping You from Succeeding
  By @RyanHoliday
  (via @pulidoramses)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Super deluxe mid-April extravaganza

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 21 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Belur Math (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for April 14, 2019:

• I read @GeorgeLakoff’s “Whose Freedom?” a deep dive into the chasm between conservative and progressive mentalities, and the language that must be retaken.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2GkvRI2
• Alabama’s own Don and Don Jr., liars, cheats and would-be billionaires
  By Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb
• Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village. A look at climate change and trauma.
  By Livia Albeck-Ripka @livia_ar
  (via @ChanelTsang @evycoul)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 45, a 2018 collection
  #haiku #poetry
• 2013 Q&A with premier New York art critics @RobertaSmithNYT and @JerrySaltz
  By Christopher Bollen @christobollen
  (via @mshandegr)
• To be true to one’s self means changing to become that self
  By @Kevin_Tobia
  (via @BBCSanaSafi)
• Flashback: Good things come in fives … Birmingham Blogging Academy’s 5th anniversary
• I was there: Michael Jordan’s brief-but-promising baseball career with the @BhamBarons 25 years ago
  By Steve @WulfESPN
  #Bham
• How @KaceyMusgraves Found Her Golden Hour
  By @JordanSarge nt
• Flashback: Getting Started in Low-Cost, No-Cost Social Media Marketing
• Know your Marvel: How they put together the “Avengers” Battle of New York
  Compiled by Matt Patches @misterpatches and Ian Failes @vfxblog
• After Mugabe’s 37-year dictatorship, Zimbabwe’s biggest newspaper can print exactly what it wants.
  By Kevin Sieff @ksieff
  (via @kikiochieng)
• The Third Life of Richard Miles, after 15 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit
  By Shawn Shinneman @SDShinneman
  (via @glennEmartin)
• The Dreams of a Man Asleep for 3 Weeks
  By Mike Fahey @Bunnyspatial

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: 13 miles to glory

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 14 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 7, 2019:

• “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I hadn’t read it in a long time – great to revisit this family epic set in Colombia.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2I34HYu
• Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold
  By David Bauder @dbauder and @DavidALieb
• When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
  By @TaylorLorenz
• Flashback: Your complete guide to voicemail perfection, as told in pictures
• How Successful People Handle Toxic People
  By Travis Bradberry @talentsmarteq
  (via @TAljubury)
• The reason Joan Didion’s work endures: She changed the way we wrote.
  By Brigid Delaney @BrigidWD
  (via @NUJ_LFB)
• Flashback: Innovation from within
• Terrific profile of brilliant investigative reporter @JaneMayerNYer
  By @MollyLangmuir
  (RT @emilynussbaum)
• The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Just Won’t Die
  By @AdamClarkEstes
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — The ethical digital marketer
• The “celebrity professor” of hip-hop at Duke and Harvard, Patrick Douthit a k a @9thWonder
  By @NCDavidMenconi
  (via @jessicabanov)
• What’s So Scary About Socialism?
  By David M. Perry @Lollardfish
• Why rule by the people is better than rule by the experts
  By Nicholas Tampio @NTampio
  (via @BBCSanaSafi)
• Sandy’s Story: 7 years after Alzheimer’s diagnosis, “there’s still a good life.”
  By @DrSanjayGupta and Sandee LaMotte
  (via @HDuggalMD)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: RIP Birmingham Iron

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 7 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Charles Kremenak (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for March 31, 2019:

• I finally read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” as relevant as ever, a look at man’s poisonous war on nature over minor nuisances. Highly recommended.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2HPzU1g
• Recycling Is Broken
  By Maddie Stone @themadstone
• Getting kids into the reading habit:
  1. Classics are fine, but don’t forget popular fiction, by Jonathan Douglas @JDLiteracyTrust (via @EccoEnglish)
  2. Adults can read children’s lit along with their kids, by @AlicePenfold1
• Flashback: Stretch or stagnate
• Tired: Bedside manner. Wired: Webside manner. Doctors learn new ways to diagnose patients through video calls.
  By Robbie Gonzalez @rtg0nzalez
  (via @LillyTrials)
• The Sexist, Political History of Pockets
  By @ChelseaGSummers
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Behind the buzz: N2V marketing from Netflix
• Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
  By Brian Merchant @bcmerchant
• Presumed guilty: Did a Tufts grad student really hack into university servers to change her grades?
  By @ZackWhittaker
• Flashback: Facebook Pages are dying. What now?
• A look at the “The @Rosie O’Donnell Show” in this excerpt from @RaminSetoodeh’s “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View'”
• The Brothers Who Bought South Africa
  By @MattCampbell and @WildFranz
  (RT @AfricaResearch)
• Zimbabwe’s clean slate: What brought Mugabe down, and why he didn’t see it coming
  By @GeoffreyYork
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Something is wrong on the internet – it’s little kids and YouTube.
  By @JamesBridle
  (RT @LetMommySleep)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Black and white and red all over

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 31 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Tobyas Reaper (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for March 24, 2019:

• I read “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle, or as I call it, 4,783 simple rules to live by.
• How Federal Disaster Money Favors the Rich
  By Rebecca Hersher @rhersher and @RobertBenincasa
• BuzzFeed and the digital media meltdown
  By @DavidUberti
  (RT @acarvin)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 12, a 2009 collection
  #haiku #poetry
• The insidious creep of privatization of London’s public spaces
  By Jack Shenker @hackneylad
  (via @participedia)
• How to Diversify Your Newsroom, Starting Now
  By @EmmaCarew Grovum
  (RT @mayerjoy)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Hungry for content, starving for stories
• The Lifehacker Guide to International Travel
  By @ItsJoshOcampo
• Can Canada get restaurants to lower salt usage in dishes? And will other countries follow suit?
  By @AnnHui
• Flashback: From 10 years ago, a very different time in Birmingham’s TV/movie production phase
  #Bham
• Interview with former director Penelope Spheeris (“Wayne’s World,” “The Decline of Western Civilization”)
  By Katie Rife @FutureSchlock
• California Adopting LGBT-Inclusive History Textbooks, Latest Chapter in a Centuries-Long Fight
  By @KatySteinmetz
  (via @sageusa)
• When Music You Wrote Becomes a Hate Speech Soundtrack
  By Pippa Biddle @PhilippaBiddle
  (RT @TicketSellers)
• An American on Learning to Understand (and Love) British Culture
  By Jennifer Schaffer @jmschaff
  (via @claramalaussene)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Spring flings

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 24 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Micadew (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for March 17, 2019:

• I found that @BlaineHarden’s short book “Escape from Camp 14” provides a limited look at life inside North Korean prison camps and brutal regime that runs them.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Tcu7DY
• How self-proclaimed tech savior Kyle Sandler swindled millions out of Opelika, Ala.
  By @Jay_Reeves
• When Bergdorf Served Chitlins and Champagne: The curious case of soul food in department stores
  By @RikkiByrd
• Flashback: From 2008, Hungry heart: #Bham author @KimSunee shares global journey in “Trail of Crumbs”
• If a Shakespeare play is racist/antisemitic, is it OK to change the ending?
  By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore @cmontefiore
  (via @ATYP_Theatre)
• How I Got This Baby: Pregnant at 19
  From @TheCut
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Storytelling in depth: Nothing to it but to do it
• John Kirhoffer, the Torture King of Reality TV, Explains How He Dreams Up “Survivor” Challenges
  By @LeighBlickley
• .@ChefJoseAndres on what it was like to cook over 2 million meals in Puerto Rico
  By Matt Goulding @mdgoulding
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: From 2008, in honor of the Bear, timeless Alabama-Auburn jokes
• The $179 million “Bones” landmark ruling and Fox’s lying, cheating, “reprehensible” studio fraud
  By @EriqGardner
• Behind the Hype of Apple’s Plan to End Mining
  By Maddie Stone @themadstone
• An in-depth preview of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland
  By @GermainLussier
  https://buff.ly/2XsGL5i / https://buff.ly/2NzsG18
• Cast by Chronic Illness Into a Limiting Role
  By @MarisKreizman

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Up in smoke

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 17 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Mike Liu (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for March 10, 2019:

• I read @EricGreitens’ “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life,” a great primer on facing hardships with a realistic and persistent outlook.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2u1Y2EA
• Promethea Unbound: A child genius raised in poverty — a horrific act of violence that nearly destroyed her
  By @MikeSMariani
• Yellowhammer News @YHN, yellow journalism and the surge of politically motivated media organizations
  By @LaurenSmiley
  #alpolitics
• Flashback: 10 years ago, my first Birmingham Blogging Academy post Write what you know … and what you don’t know
• In the Internet We Trust: The Impact of Engaging with News Articles
  From @Gallup and Knight Foundation @knightfdn
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2tCfdfZ
• Creating a permanent record of our civilization may not be as difficult as we imagine.
  By James Lovelock
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Storytelling in depth: The craft
• Meet the Riders of the Sikh Motorcycle Club of the Northeast
  By Teresa Mathew @_teamat
• The Caviar Con: Eastern Europeans flock to Missouri with federal agents in pursuit
  By David @GauveyHerbert
• Flashback: From 2014, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 30
  #haiku #poetry
• In a System of Polygamy and Patriarchy, Ugandan Women Find Power in Lending Practices That Require Their Approval
  By Edna Namara
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• A thorough primer on the Trump-Russia investigation, revealed through Mueller’s court documents
  By @ChadSDay and Eric Tucker @etuckerAP
• How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
  By Kashmir Hill @kashhill
• Love’s Road Home
  By @CJChivers

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Perfect pitches

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 10 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Rita P. (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for March 3, 2019:

• Glad I finally got to read my pal @JamiAttenberg’s novel “The Middlesteins” featuring a Jewish family spanning four generations.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2IN2cdL
• Annual Gun Law Scorecard: Of 10 states with lowest gun death rates, 7 have some of country’s strongest gun laws
  By Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence @GiffordsCourage
  (via @JimMacMillan)
• How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women
  By @AmandaHess
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Storytelling in depth: The trouble with acts
• Where the Girls Aren’t, an excerpt from “The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic” by Jessica Hopper @jesshopp
• Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
  By @JedOelbaum
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Storytelling in depth: Characters we know by heart
• What color is your city?
  By @JessicaFurseth
• How to explore Atlanta’s underground dining scene
  Edited by Mara Shalhoup @mshalhoup
• Flashback: How to win the Super Bowl in 30 seconds
• Behind the scenes of a “Survivor” marooning
  By @DaltonRoss
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
  By Ross @Andersen
• The Convert
  By @AbigailPesta
• Outside the Manson Pinkberry
  By Rachel Monroe @rachmonroe

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Win like a lion

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 3 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Rosmarie Voegtli (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for February 24, 2019:

• After listening to David Carr’s “The Night of the Gun,” I learned something important: I don’t care for junkie memoirs. (But thanks to @GlennyBrock for the recommendation.)
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2U4IjjL
• There’s No Place Blacker than Birmingham
  By @MichaelHarriot
  #Bham
• American water crisis: Cost spikes force hundreds of thousands of people to endure without an essential resource
  By @MIZamudio and Will Craft @craftworksxyz
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Storytelling in depth: Comedy in 8 easy steps
• “The Sound of Silence,” illustrated serenade to art of listening to one’s inner voice amid noise of modern life
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (via @FaridaMessaadi)
• From 1944: John F. Kennedy’s Story of Survival
  By John Hersey
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — More marketing, onscreen and beyond
• How to build a steady reading habit
  By Nick Douglas @toomuchnick
• The family behind the original Nashville Hot Chicken
  By @Williams_Paige
• Flashback: I love Ginny’s recap of “The Biggest Loser” and our Alabama team from 2008
• Women accuse singer-songwriter @TheRyanAdams of emotional and verbal abuse, harassment
  By @JoeCoscarelli and @MelenaR yzik
  #MeToo
• Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the NSA to Its Core
  By @ScottShaneNYT, @NicolePerlroth and David @SangerNYT
• How to Survive the Anthropocene
  By @ChauBTu
  (via @WGNHS)
• The last words of @JohnDingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history
  (via @@lbeutler7)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: This is just a tribute

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 24 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Bob M. (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for February 17, 2019:

• Enjoyed @WarrenStJohn’s “Outcasts United,” about an inspiring woman, Luma Mufleh @fugeesfamily, who helps international kids heal and succeed through soccer.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2TR9RJi
• Abuse of Faith: Investigative series reveals decades of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist church leaders, volunteers
  By @RobDownenChron, Lise Olsen @chrondigger and @John_Tedesco
• Shooting the messenger: @JeremiahWright, firebrand prophet
  By @AshonCrawley
  (via @byjoelanderson)
• Flashback: Regions Bank uses video to focus on outstanding team members
• The War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare
  By @DavidZax
• Language Acquisition: Fleeing New York for life with a painter in his village in central Mexico
  By @DianaSpechler
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Intent is everything
• Hooters Chicken
  By @LizzHuerta
• Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr, ruling the Senate with parliamentary trickery
  By Charles Homans @chashomans
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, the budding “Survivor” bromance between JT and @stephenfishbach
• Colin Farrell and the Art of the Small Comeback
  By Cara Buckley @caraNYT
• Poor defendants, overworked public defenders and a broken justice system
  By @RichOppel and @JugalPatelnyt
  (via @pamelacolloff @bshelburne)
• Cape Coral, the Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist
  By @MikeGrunwald
• The Spinal Tap That Changed My Life
  By Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A yen to explore

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 17 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: X1klima (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for February 10, 2019:

• I revisited Homer’s “The Odyssey” after “Ulysses.” The sections on feasting and murdering suitors were far longer than I remembered.
• Inside Botox, Wonder Drug for Aging (Made From One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth)
  By @CynthiaLKoons
• Genetic testing of embryos is creating an ethical morass
  By @DrewQJoseph
• Flashback: The toughest step is the first one
• Behold the whiny political punching bag @ChrisChristie
  By Jason @Zengerle
• .@Rachel_Handler Lived Like Reese Witherspoon @RWitherspoon for a Week and All She Got Was This Ham
  (via @bamadesigner)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Storytelling in depth: Why Woody and Buzz matter
• Tracking Opioids Beneath the Streets Using Sewage-Sampling Robots
  By @KelseyTsipis
• 49 Women on What They Love Most About Being Black
  Compiled by Britt Stephens @brittsteps
  (via @IWriteAllDay_)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Alabama’s JT Thomas begins his 79-day, 3-season “Survivor” run
• A @NYTimes profile of Birmingham comedian @RoyWoodJr
  By @SopanDeb
  #Bham
• “Tiny House Hunters” and the shrinking American dream
  By Roxane Gay @rgay
• “Nobody Is Going to Believe You”: Men come forward to accuse director Bryan Singer of sexual misconduct for 20 years
  By @MisterAlexFren1 and @MaxAPotter
• The big-hearted Big Apple
  By @ZadieSmith

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The football capital

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 10 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Dean Hochman (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for February 3, 2019:

• Today is my 10-year anniversary on Twitter. Here’s how I marked 10,000 tweets back in 2010 …
• Ageism is coming for all of us. Analysis: More than half of U.S. workers 50 and older are pushed out of longtime jobs.
  By @PeterGosselin
  (via @chrisbrogan)
• New Tactic in the War Against Plastic Waste: Naming and Shaming Manufacturers
  By @ChristophJoyce
• Flashback: The perfect scheduling assistant for busy bloggers
  #blogging
• India, one of the few places where a communist can still dream
  By Greg Jaffe and @VidhiDoshi91
• Remembering Vera Rubin: Trailblazing Astrophysicist Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Digital marketing in 2038
• David Chase on TV violence. Excerpt from “The Sopranos Sessions” by @MattZollerSeitz and Alan @Sepinwall
• The Expectation of “Free” Art and the Disastrous Decline in Author Incomes
  By @CarrieVMullins
  (via @ambernoelle)
• Flashback: From 2017, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 44
  #haiku #poetry
• Interview with pop singer @SamSmith
  By Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner
• An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin
  By Mark @Frauenfelder
• Restoring Hope: Fighting the Opioid Addiction Crisis in Buffalo
  By @AllisonCEck
• Pepe for leftists: An explanation of Gritty the hockey mascot
  By Todd VanDerWerff @tvoti

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Smile after smile after smile

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 3 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Htomari (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for January 27, 2019:

• First time to review “The Federalist Papers” since high school — never hurts to brush up on the Constitution and how our government should work
• As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
  By @GabrielDance, Michael @LaForgia_ and @NickConfessore
• Poised for Power: Grassroots Media at the Threshold
  By Jordan Flaherty
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2QYwmcY (via @grcmc)
• Flashback: Five years ago, Winter Storm Leon freezes Alabama: newspaper front pages
  #alwx
• Why Does Sweden Have So Many Start-Ups?
  By @AlanaSemuels
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• John Boehner @SpeakerBoehner Unchained
  By @TimAlberta
• Flashback: Hanging out in the virtual peanut gallery
• Outback Bowl director Jim McVay gets $1m to stage a single, 2nd-tier bowl featuring 3rd-place teams relegated to ESPN2
  By @TheWillHobson
  (RT @RedditCFB)
• Interview with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris @funnyblackdude, headed to Netflix with $100m deal
  By @LaceyVRose
• Flashback: 10 years ago, presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama campaign in #Bham
  #alpolitics
• Oral history of “Office Space” on its 20th anniversary
  Compiled by Stacey Wilson Hunt @GalinHollywood
• The Last Fire and the Next One: The landscape of disaster is changing.
  By @LaurenMarkham_
• A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job
  By Meredith Kolodner @merkolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz @sarahbutro
  (via @Gregbsmithnyc)
• The Bully who became a Buddhist
  By @EricSteuer

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Steering and cheering

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for January 27 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Lamb family (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for January 20, 2019:

• Glad I finally read Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” a wonderfully enriching novel
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2MilaqM
• Inside @Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
  By @Max_Fisher
• A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete
  By @NicolaTwilley
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The exciting tech ecosystem of Birmingham
  #Bham
• Equitable Schools for a Sustainable World
  By Benjamin Doxtdator @doxtdatorb
  (RT @NZPPTA)
• A Very Old Man for a Wolf
  By @Emma_Marris
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Sheffield’s Fred Thompson ends his run for the presidency
  #alpolitics
• The @DerSpiegel Journalism Scandal and the Seduction of Storytelling
  By @JeffJarvis
  (via @mkonnikova)
• “You’re a Quadriplegic”: Las Vegas Shooting Victim Kim Gervais Faces a Hard Reality
  By @JulieTurkewitz
• Flashback: Google+, the little social network that couldn’t
• Interview with director Greta Gerwig
  By @NoreenMalone
• The @GOP’s Sexualized Assault of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
  By @SadyDoyle
• If @CyntoiaBrown Can Be Released from Prison, Why Not Trafficking Survivor Alexis Martin?
  By @MelissaGira Grant
  (via @leahcarroll)
• Fighting Racism Is Not Just a War of Words — a call to action
  By @TiyaMilesTAM

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Holiday magic and madness

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for January 20 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: María Helena Carey (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for January 13, 2019:

• Nice to read the original short story for “Arrival” in “Stories of Your Life and Others” by Ted Chiang, along with a few other interesting pieces.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2LOl6Pn
• The unbelievable life and times of Birmingham pol Larry Langford
  By Kyle Whitmire @WaronDumb
  #Bham #alpolitics
• Spirit of Fear: 4-part investigative series on sex abuse in independent fundamental Baptist churches
  By @SarahESmith23
• Flashback: The worst headlines in history will destroy your faith in humanity
• All hail salt! Excerpt from “On Spice: Advice, Wisdom and History With a Grain of Saltiness” by Caitlin @PenzeyMoog
• Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow, these Nigerian girls survived.
  By @DionneSearcey
  (via @spazhousellc)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Cleaning up the Inbox
• Cape of Storms to Come: Series on battles over land and water in Cape Town
  By @DianaNeille, Marelise Van Der Merwe @marelisevdm, @LeilaDougan, @Heidi_Swart
  (via @WWFSouthAfrica)
• Every Apple You Eat Took Years and Years to Make: Breeding new kinds at my alma mater, Cornell
  By Sarah Laskow @slaskow
  (via @mckra1g)
• Flashback: From 10 years ago, a pair of Alabamians compete on “Survivor” season 18 (and one will win it all)
• CBS Diversity Showcase Was a Racist, Homophobic Mess for Years, Participants Say
  By Maria Elena Fernandez @writerchica
• Is the Women’s March Melting Down?
  By @LeahMcSweeney and @Jacob__Siegel
• Pregnancy and childbirth are killing African-American women at inexplicable rates
  By Ann M. Simmons @AMSimmons1
  (via @demblackmamas)
• The Year We Left New York
  By @JohnPDarcy_

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