Serendib Reading

Recorded an Episode with Foodie and the Beast

Fun start to the morning — recorded a Vegan Serendib-focused podcast interview for Foodie and the Beast, a DC-based food industry show with Nycci Safier Nellis. They cover food and beverages, along with all kinds of other interesting things — the show I was on had someone talking about the health benefits of taking algae …

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Reading Brotherless Night

It’s a little strange, reading Sugi Ganeshananthan‘s new novel, _Brotherless Night_, while I’m deliberately spending a month cooking Sri Lankan food every day. Strange, but also right, to read her book with the memory of milk rice and pol sambol still lingering on my tongue. This passage, from the first chapter, describes Jaffna market, which …

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Have You Read “The Screwfly Solution”?

Has everyone read Sheldon’s “The Screwfly Solution”? You should. I don’t know why it isn’t taught along with “The Lottery” and other short story classics. Especially today, I would like everyone to read it. Except that I’m not sure it’s available to read legally online anymore, since SciFiction isn’t up anymore. But it’s available as …

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A Tiny Bit of Sir Terry

My sister asked for an audiobook recommendation, something light for company with chores, that it’d be okay if the kids overheard, and I suggested Pratchett’s Night Watch books, and then I went to go get a list of them for her, and discovered that there was a little one-page short story in the series that …

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