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My picks for #sundayread for January 6, 2019:

• Read “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow, kinda like the hit Broadway show but with way less singing. A fascinating read for a fascinating man
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Vt8B0c
• The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry
  By Brian Merchant @bcmerchant
• The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise?
  By Paul @DugganWaPo
• Flashback: The yearlong blogging challenge
• Hillary warned us. In 2011. How Russia is revolutionizing information warfare.
  By @PeterPomeranzev
  (via @marco_oriunto)
• Why is inclusion important and how can we design for maximum participation? Key findings from @CSUCPD
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2Txd7ZT (RT @participedia)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Building a storytelling dream team
• The Inequality of Leadership in College Athletics
  By @JasonBelzer
  (via @WOSIDA_)
• Louisiana school made headlines for sending black kids to elite colleges. But it cut corners and doctored applications.
  By @EricaLG reen and Katie Benner @ktbenner
  (h/t @Longreads)
• Flashback: How celebrities blog these days
• Up from deathbed, @RicFlairNatrBoy all set to style, profile
  By Dan Gelston @APgelston
• How Anti-Abortion Zealots Pose as Medical Professionals to Deceive Pregnant Women
  By Callie Beusman @cal_beu
• Unshackled: A prostitute’s journey to freedom
  By @TaylorMirf endereski
• .@TheNickBham: A dangerous history of Alabama’s coolest bar
  By @MatthewBWake
  #Bham

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: 2018 is so last year

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for January 6 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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Part 2: My picks for #sundayread for December 30, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. The case of Gardendale, Ala.’s fight for a district.
  By Alvin Chang @alv9n
• Information terrorists have weaponized social media, blogs, videos and other digital channels
  By @MollyMcKew
• I Quit My Job to Pursue My Passion — and My Life Fell Apart.
  By Darcy Stewart
• How statistics lost their power — and why we should fear what comes next
  By William Davies @davies_will
• How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018
  By Edward Burmila @gin_and_tacos
• On female rage
  By Leslie Jamison @lsjamison
• How Poetry Came to Matter Again
  By Jesse Lichtenstein @jgl541
• Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism
  By @JayRosen_nyu
• The female price of male pleasure
  By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
• I read the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of sexual abuses by Catholic priests and cover-ups. You should, too, though fair warning, it’s a stomach-churning indictment of a longtime holy criminal conspiracy.
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2PXr3es
• Out-of-state real estate investors who destroy city housing communities
  By @RachMonroe
• The Kardashian Makeup Empire Is Only Getting Bigger
  By Zan Romanoff @zanopticon
• “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” by Roxane Gay @rgay broke my heart into a thousand pieces. A challenging but rewarding read.
  [aff. link] https://buff.ly/2Nwnq0E
• What Happened When a White Cop Decided *Not* to Shoot a Black Man
  By @theJoeSexton

All my #sundayread picks for 2018. And visit Part 1 from Dec. 23.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A city as canvas

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 30 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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Part 1: My picks for #sundayread for December 23, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Nora, the Loneliest Polar Bear
  By Kale Williams @sfkale
• I listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” twice because it was so powerful and moving.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2mWgf2G
• How Baby Boomers Broke America
  By @StevenBrill
• Fake news is an existential crisis for social media
  By Natasha Lomas @riptari
• You’re mothering wrong.
  By Kim Brooks @KA_Brooks
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
  By Gary Greenberg @bookofwoe
• Many Chinas, Many Tables: Stories of Bay Area Chinese cuisines
  From the San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle
• The end of work as we know it
  By James Livingston @annihilista
• I rarely say this: This book changed my life. “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by @SusanCain is so spot on, I’m buying copies for all my friends.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2HDEsU2
• Police shoot more than twice as many Americans as previously thought
  From @ViceNews
• Diary of a Do-Gooder: The anonymous tasks of everyday activism
  By @SaraEckel
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
  By @Jean_Twenge
• The Year the Networks Finally Embraced Diversity
  By @KateAurthur
• Crossville, an immigrant oasis flourishing in red state Alabama
  By Andrew @DesiderioDC

All my #sundayread picks for 2018. And look for Part 2 on Dec. 30.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Little shop of ho ho’s

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 16, 2018:

• Listened (twice!) to James Joyce’s “Ulysses” unabridged. Requires further study. Time to re-read “The Odyssey” and “Portrait of the Artist.”
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2RZk1GB
• What Happened When a White Cop Decided *Not* to Shoot a Black Man
  By @theJoeSexton
  (via @loisbeckett)
• Presenting the 2018 Bitch 50: Amazing women who stood out this year
  Compiled by @BitchMedia
  (via @freeblackgirl)
• Flashback: Goal: Improve my storytelling
• Review of @WMaryBeard’s “Women and Power: A Manifesto”
  By @MsRachelCooke
  (via @RobinPNW)
• Richard Nixon: President. Crook. And wife-beating drunk.
  By @ElonGreen
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – If action movies can evolve, so can our corporate storytelling
• Christopher Wylie @chrisinsilico: The Man Who Was Deleted From the Internet
  (via @themediaisdying)
• Alabama activist lawyer Bryan Stevenson on America’s racism
  By Mary Kaye Schilling
  (via @freepiva)
• Flashback: From 2008, Birmingham No. 8 on Most Dangerous Cities list
  #Bham
• The Great NFL Heist: How Fox changed football and football changed Fox 25 years ago
  Compiled by @BryanCurtis
• Guns are second-leading cause of death of US children; public health researchers may finally be allowed to study why.
  By @MeredithWadman
• AI is being woven into the fabric of our lives – for better and for worse
  By @IanSample
  (via @SteveHare)
• The Enormous Life of Anthony @Bourdain
  Compiled by @DrewMagary

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A moment of panic

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 16 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 9, 2018:

• Flashback: One year ago, Doug Jones beats Roy Moore for a Senate seat from Alabama
  #alpolitics
• Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson’s First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
  By @Azeen Ghorayshi
• How the prosperity gospel is sparking a major change in predominantly Catholic Brazil
  By Sarah Pulliam Bailey @spulliam
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Auburn wins 2013 SEC Championship: newspaper front pages
• Steering students to a more democratic society through their schools
  By @KeiNishiyamaUC
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2TkSHUp (via @participedia)
• Inmates at the nation’s oldest women’s prison are building a remarkable project
  By @EliBHager
  (RT @DonnaWares)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The days of set-and-forget ad buys are over
• How to Write Absolutely Addictive Articles
  By Eddie Shleyner @VeryGoodCopy
  (via @ABImarketingPR)
• Authors, We Need to Destroy the Blurbing Industrial Complex
  By @MarieMyungOkLee
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – As you’re putting together your editorial calendar for next year …
• It’s the ranking of all 45 “Peanuts” TV specials, Charlie Brown!
  By Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams
• Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
  By @LizaMundy
  (RT @STEMWomenUK)
• Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
  By @SheeraF renkel, @NickConfessore, @CeciliaKang, Matthew Rosenberg @AllMattNYT and @JackNicas
• The Sex Recession: Why Are Young People Not Doing It?
  By @KateJulian

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The vision thing

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 9 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for December 2, 2018:

• Listened to “Essays” by Ralph Waldo Emerson twice — a good way to understand his musings on self-reliance, manners and more.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2SriSaV
• Can cannabis cure cancer?
  By @AdrianaBarton
  (via @The_B_Company)
• Beers and Shots: Even at its highest levels, darts is all about hoisting a pint with your mates at the pub
  By @SteveRushin
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Flashback: A “Gatling gun of ideas”: Marking #Bham mayor Larry Langford’s 1st year in office in 2008
  #alpolitics
• .@Disney’s World War II Propaganda and Latin America’s Artistic Reactions
  By Sarah Linn @shelikestowatch
  (via @18thStreetArts)
• Rebuilding the EDSAC, one of the world’s first general purpose computers
  By @DannyJPalmer
• Flashback: 10 years ago, feds arrest Birmingham mayor Larry Langford
• The Hateful Life and Spiteful Death of the Man Who Was Vigo the Carpathian
  By @ShaunRaviv
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Scents from a Mall: The Sticky, Untold Story of @Cinnabon
  By @AlleciaV ermillion
  (h/t @Longreads)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Chart: The Periodic Table of Storytelling
• Sweet as Sugar, Rude as Hell: The Lost Interview with Truman Capote’s Aunt, a k a the Fruitcake Lady
  By Wendell Brock @MrBrock
• Who wants to shoot an elephant?
  By Wells Tower
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• College Is Different for the School-Shooting Generation
  By @AshleyFetters
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Becoming Anne Frank: Why we turned an isolated teen girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim
  By @DaraHorn
  (via @SundayLongRead)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: 200 down, 200 to go

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 2 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 25, 2018:

• Flashback: Vote 2008: The Obama Effect in Alabama
• The Populist Morass
  By @LehmannChris
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Black on Bay Street: @HadiyaRoderique had it all. But still could not fit in at large law firms.
  (RT @ConsentComes1st)
• Flashback: Are we making enough time for writing?
• How Edgar Allan Poe Got Kicked Out of the U.S. Army
  By Brian Van Reet @bvanreet
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Uncatchable: America’s most elusive fugitive George Wright ran for 40 years
  By @MikeFinkel
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – When searching for answers goes awry
• A Grim Tour on Magazine Crews
  By @Ian_Urbina
• Kevin Alexander @KAlexander03 Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then He Killed It.
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Flashback: From 2008, Catching up with Rush Propst and the “Two-a-Days” cast
• .@NickiMinaj, the queen of hip-hop, always in control
  By Roxane Gay @rgay
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
  By Gary Greenberg @bookofwoe
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• .@TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts
  By @RaquelRutledge and Andrew Mollica @armollica
• Oral history of “Oz” on its 20th anniversary in 2017
  Compiled by @AdrienneMWest enfeld

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Thanksgiving!
• The Birmingham channel: A Classic closeup

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 18, 2018:

• Finally read John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces,” and it was delightful. Great humor and storytelling.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2qQ6jKm
• The Danger of President Pence
  By @JaneMayerNYer
• Nora, the Loneliest Polar Bear
  By Kale Williams @sfkale
• Flashback: Smart ways to use (up to) 280 characters on Twitter
• Harassed Out of Hollywood: Veteran Stuntwoman @JeanCoulter9 Reflects on the Movies and the Blacklist
  By @RichJuz wiak
• Shandling masterpieces: “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” “Larry Sanders” and 25 years of weekly basketball among friends
  By Anna Peele @bananapeele
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Gender Avenger gives us its Stamp of Approval
• The power and politics of the black barbershop: A haircut and a healing
  By Jason Parham @nonlinearnotes
• .@StellaMcCartney Is Weaving a New Way Forward
  By Mary Kaye Schilling
• Flashback: Wade Kwon’s resume … in 10 tweets
• Oral History of Nirvana on MTV’s “Unplugged”
  By @AlanSiegelDC
• Can we finally eradicate polio? A report from the frontline in Nigeria.
  By @Jo_M_Chandler
• The Age of M-Pesa
  From @Owaahh
  (via @EbosoAnne)
• Who is the Watcher? An unsolved Jersey mystery
  By @ReevesWiedeman

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Caught on tape
• Happy Veterans Day!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 18 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 11, 2018:

• Vote 2018: Alabama general election results
  #alpolitics
• Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?
  By Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
• When Staying in the Trump Administration Is Worse Than Leaving It
  By Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen
• Flashback: Video everywhere, including Facebook page headers
• From 1916: Trans-national America
  By Randolph S. Bourne
• Oral History (of sorts) of Weird Twitter
  Compiled by @JWHerrman and @KatieNotopoulos
• Flashback: Which video strategy is right for your company?
• Can we teach robots ethics?
  By @DavidEdmonds100
• My 14-Hour Search for the End of @ TGIFridays’ Endless Appetizers
  By @CaityWeaver
• Flashback: Focused communication: Working with subordinates, peers and bosses
• Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
  By Colin Morris @HalfEatenScone
  (RT @zmijutin)
• U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
  By @JanetReitman
• How Congress allied with drug company lobbyists to derail the DEA’s @DEAHQ war on opioids
  By @ScottHigham1 and @LennyMBernstein
• Why English is such a great language for puns
  From @TheEconomist
  (RT @WuestefeldDoyle)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Earth probably first
• Vote 2018: The stormy midterms have arrived

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 11 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for November 4, 2018:

• Flashback: 10 years ago, the Vote 2008 Election Night live blog, with @JenBarnett and @ChrisOzDavis
  #alpolitics
• America’s Next Civil War
  By @StephenMarche
• Death at a Penn State Fraternity
  By Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific
• Flashback: LinkedIn for Nonprofits, a free program you’ll love
• Chef/TV host Samin Nosrat @CiaoSamin Is a New Kind of Domestic Goddess
  By Madeleine Aggeler @mmaggeler
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• #MeToo and the era of asshole white guy TV protagonists
  By Todd VanDerWerff @tvoti
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Evergreen content, promos that last (nearly) forever
• “As Long as It’s Healthy,” an excerpt from “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump’s America”
  By Sarah Michael Hollenbeck
• In the gardens of olives
  By Helen Rosner @hels
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 11
  #haiku #poetry
• How Julia Louis-Dreyfus @OfficialJLD quietly became the most successful sitcom star ever
  By @GeoffEdgers
• Non-Essential Oils
  By Rachel Monroe @rachmonroe
• Unprotected: American charity claimed to protect vulnerable Liberian girls from sexual exploitation. Instead, the girls were raped.
  By @Fin_Young
• Crossville, an immigrant oasis flourishing in red state Alabama
  By Andrew @DesiderioDC

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: All dressed up
• Happy Halloween!

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for November 4 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 28, 2018:

• Flashback: 10 years ago, Mary Buckelew was the fourth Jefferson County commissioner convicted over the sewer scandal.
  #bham
• California’s changing fire country: How can communities survive the wildfire age?
  By @Susie_C agle
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• After a near-fatal brush with Lyme disease, @AvrilLavigne is skateboarding for Jesus now
  By Anna Peele @bananapeele
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Alabama newspapers endorse @BarackObama by 2-1 margin
• #ThisIs18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes
  By @NYTimes staff
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It
  By @Gizmodo staff
• Flashback: Better communication through Facebook groups for business
• My Great-Grandfather the Bundist
  By @MollyCrabapple
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger
  By @AdamSerwer
  (via @kerthan)
• Flashback: Do you need courage to write?
  A pair of interviews with the new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker:
  — From @MoRyan: https://buff.ly/2y6z49H
  — From Devon Ivie @devonsaysrelax: https://buff.ly/2yywAAj
• The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail
  By @DanBarryNYT and @JeffreyESinger
  (via @SundayLongRead)
• Denying a Diagnosis: Can we treat patients with mental illness and preserve civil liberties?
  By @RachelAviv
• Queens of Infamy: The Reign of Catherine de’ Medici
  By @Anne_Theriault
  (via @SundayLongRead)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Living history

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for October 28 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for October 21, 2018:

• • Vote 2018: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County general election
    #alpolitics #bham
  • A Field Guide to Bad Faith Arguments
    By @AaronHuertas
  • Over the years, shoppers have found notes in retail goods supposedly written by Chinese prisoners. Pleas for help or activist stunts?
    By @RossalynWarren
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: 61 ways I’ve used blogging
  • When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men
    By Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Feminists Share What Comes Next for the #MeToo Movement
    By @MoiraDonegan
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: When compliments go wrong, part 2
  • “The South got something to say”: 20th anniversary of @OutKast’s “Aquemini,” blueprint of the Southern black renaissance
    By David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS
    (h/t @afraidofthebear)
  • Do You Believe in Sharing? On “The Tragedy of the Commons” and modern environmental management
    By @TimHarford
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Flashback: 5 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 29
  • The Anti-Prestige Showrunner: @CWJaneTheVirgin creator @JennieUrman
    By Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren
  • The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System
    By @EthanWatters1
    (via @SundayLongRead)
  • Protesters blasting punitive prosecutors, police brutality upended Chicago’s political status quo
    By @MsKellyMHayes
    (via @ethanbrown72)
  • .@ToddBol, 62, creator of the Little Free Library movement, died Thursday. From one little box, a big idea that spread to 75K+ boxes in 88 countries.
    By Jenna Ross @ByJenna

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The rides of October

More #sundayread:

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

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My picks for #sundayread for October 14, 2018:

• Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 47
  #poetry
• Information terrorists have weaponized social media, blogs, videos and other digital channels
  By @MollyMcKew
• SMASH THE 1 PERCENT!!!
  By @DavidBarstow, @SusanneCraig and @RussBuettner
• Flashback: What’s the next big social media network?
• King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial and Inbred
  By @KerThan
  (RT @LiekeMuller)
• A Loaded Gun: Amy Bishop and the 2010 mass shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
  By @PRaddenKeefe
• Flashback: From 2013, marking Wade on Birmingham’s eighth anniversary
• Smart contracts for the music industry
  By @ImogenHeap
• What Makes @NBCTheGoodPlace So Good?
  By Sam Anderson @shamblanderson
• Flashback: Comfortable language
• The Year the Networks Finally Embraced Diversity
  By @KateAurthur
• China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies
  By Jordan Robertson @jordanr1000 and @MichaelRileyDC
  (via @ShiraOvide @thomaspower)
• Diary of a Do-Gooder: The anonymous tasks of everyday activism
  By @SaraEckel
  (via @saribotton)
• Pa’s Punny Punchline: The Dad Jokes Phenomenon
  By @AshleyFetters

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Sharp objects

More #sundayread:

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

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My picks for #sundayread for October 7, 2018:

• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Building a mythology through storytelling
• .@BritishGQ asked 12 mass killers: “What would have stopped you?”
  By @AlHannaford
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Inside Britain’s meme factory
  By @SimonParkin
• Flashback: Raised on radio
• Excerpt on Cuban trafficking from “Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America’s National Pastime”
  By Ed Dominguez @Dominged
  (via @sundaylongread)
• A hospital inundated with a hurricane and flooding. Limited room on rescue choppers. Who do you save?
  By @SheriFink
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: Weird but fun places to blog
• “Fame proved toxic for the relationship”: When comedy duos split up
  By @SimonParkin
• Reading Thrills from @RoughTradeBooks
  By @Benson_Louise
• Flashback: Why hashtags still matter
• .evila si luaP
  By Chris Heath
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Where in the World Is @Google chief Larry Page?
  By Mark Bergen @mhbergen and @AustinCarr
  As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind
  By @Michele_Norris
• I Quit My Job to Pursue My Passion — and My Life Fell Apart.
  By Darcy Stewart

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Taxing steel, burning rubber

More #sundayread:

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

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My picks for #sundayread for September 30, 2018:

• After trying time and again to read Tim Ferriss’ @tferriss “The 4-Hour Chef,” I listened to the abridged audiobook instead. It really did the trick, and now I can’t wait to flip through the pages.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2OioMwr
• A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
  By @AnneApplebaum
  (via @sundaylongread)
• 2 White Moms. 6 Black Kids. 1 Unthinkable Tragedy. Inside the “Perfect” Hart Family.
  By @LaurenSmiley
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Birmingham Museum of Art displays da Vinci drawings
• Disaster in the Alps
  By Lane Wallace
  (via @sundaylongread)
• A little ditty ’bout Steve and Michelle …
  By @MegMcConahey
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: One year ago, a new mayor ascends in Birmingham
• Our family’s whites-only motel in Florida and culture shock
  By Scott Korb
  (via @sundaylongread)
• The Printed World in Peril
  By Will Self @wself
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Flashback: In the beginning: Revisiting blog posts for fun and profit
• .@LadyGaga Opens Up About “A Star Is Born” @starisbornmovie, #MeToo and a Decade in Pop
  By @JonnyVanMeter
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Fidget spinners, weighted blankets and the rise of anxiety consumerism
  By Rebecca Jennings @rebexxxxa
  (via @sundaylongread)
• Mark Zuckerberg apologizes again, swears this time he’ll make Facebook less destructive to society
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
  (via @sundaylongread)
• How Poetry Came to Matter Again
  By Jesse Lichtenstein @jgl541
  (via @sundaylongread)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The kayfabe harvest

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for September 30 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me