Best American To-Do Bitchfest
Nov. 21st, 2007 09:48 amTo-Do List, by Sasha Cagen with multiple contributors
A collection of different people's to-do lists, with some commentary. I thought this was very interesting, but I don't know if you would - I imagine people are either interested by these things or they're not. Some of the lists were quite touching.
(234/250)
Bitchfest, edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Essays collected from the pages of Bitch, a feminist pop culture magazine. Some of these were wonderful and some were kinda cranky-making, but they all did a stellar job of keeping my interest - the writing quality was high even in the rare cases where the ideas were totally lame.
(235/250)
The Best American Science Writing 2007, edited by Jesse Cohen and Gina Kolata
Neuroscience much? I thought this collection was a bit unbalanced, but I still enjoyed all the pieces collected within. The quality of this series is very impressive. My favorites this year were a biographical sketch of a math guy who solved the Poincare conjecture and doesn't seem to care for the attention, and a lyrically written piece about an AI that has a US patent (the AI designed the patented object itself) and works through survival-of-the-fittest coding.
(236/250)
A collection of different people's to-do lists, with some commentary. I thought this was very interesting, but I don't know if you would - I imagine people are either interested by these things or they're not. Some of the lists were quite touching.
(234/250)
Bitchfest, edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Essays collected from the pages of Bitch, a feminist pop culture magazine. Some of these were wonderful and some were kinda cranky-making, but they all did a stellar job of keeping my interest - the writing quality was high even in the rare cases where the ideas were totally lame.
(235/250)
The Best American Science Writing 2007, edited by Jesse Cohen and Gina Kolata
Neuroscience much? I thought this collection was a bit unbalanced, but I still enjoyed all the pieces collected within. The quality of this series is very impressive. My favorites this year were a biographical sketch of a math guy who solved the Poincare conjecture and doesn't seem to care for the attention, and a lyrically written piece about an AI that has a US patent (the AI designed the patented object itself) and works through survival-of-the-fittest coding.
(236/250)