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A Heretic's Phrasebook
Surgical intervention, though too little, too late.
E. Lily Yu
Feb 20
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January 2023
Representation in the Society of the Spectacle
My reading tends to be scattershot: I notice interesting references and footnotes and request the books named from my library, whereupon I discover over…
E. Lily Yu
Jan 31
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The year ahead and then some
Paying subscribers should read this one closely
E. Lily Yu
Jan 7
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December 2022
Mycena pterigena
The single most important book I’ve read this year is Bright Green Lies, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. I would recommend reading it…
E. Lily Yu
Dec 13, 2022
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November 2022
She Ate'nt Dead
I found a tiny uncapped larva a week after treatment, so the queen is alive (long live the queen). The hive has been leveled, an exercise that required…
E. Lily Yu
Nov 19, 2022
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October 2022
The One Who Kills the Bees
Homeward speeding, beauty-laden, Beelike, to its hive, my soul!
E. Lily Yu
Oct 18, 2022
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September 2022
Chestnuts from Chesterton
LOOK I'M SORRY HE LIKED PUNS TOO, OKAY?
E. Lily Yu
Sep 24, 2022
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What is missing, what is gone
I went to Chicago for the World Science Fiction Convention, and I was fortunate to have many quiet conversations with good people there. One in…
E. Lily Yu
Sep 17, 2022
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August 2022
Blessings
I am blessed to have friends willing to house me and my cat for a week. I am very blessed that the contaminated water did not reach my downstairs…
E. Lily Yu
Aug 26, 2022
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Perspective
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with several graduate students studying with a professor I admire. There was an exchange that remains…
E. Lily Yu
Aug 13, 2022
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A lighthearted intertextual interlude
This past week I taught a short course on reading and enjoying poetry, bookended and interrupted by Ogden Nash. Among other things, it included a…
E. Lily Yu
Aug 7, 2022
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July 2022
Leaves, Flowers, Fruit
All fruits in the Vaccinium genus (blueberries, huckleberries, cranberries, deerberries) are edible, though not all are delectable. Though they can be…
E. Lily Yu
Jul 19, 2022
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