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IS THE PUNK EPISODE THE MOST HATED OF SERIES? THE ANTI-FEMINIST DANGER  OF LEARNING HOW TO BE HUMAN FROM ALL MY CHILDREN, WHAT THE HOPPER-EL RELATIONSHIP SAYS ABOUT TRAUMA, WELL-INTENTIONED TERRIBLE PARENTING LISTEN/DOWNLOAD   Stranger Things, Season One, is the Netflix hit series that revels in 80s nostalgia and pays homage to everything from ET and The Goonies to Firestarter and Dungeons & Dragons. It’s  the story of four small-town American boys, Will, Mike, Dustin, and  Lucas, who encounter a mysterious girl named Eleven who possesses  enormous power that threatens to destroy anyone who crosses her—even  agents of the United States government. And all of them and the people  they love are threatened by Lovecraftian annihilation from a force  emanating from a place beyond reckoning: the Upside Down.  I love Stranger Things, and not just because I’m a child of 80s. I love it because it does what I tried to do with my de...

SFF NOVELISTS NALO HOPKINSON, EKATERINA SEDIA, SG WONG + MINISTER FAUST ON WHY THEY WRITE ABOUT FOOD WHILE SO FEW NOVELISTS DO, POWER DYNAMICS IN FOOD CULTURE, FUTURE FOOD TECH + CYBORG BODIES LISTEN/DOWNLOAD I bought my first cookbook when I was about 8 or so. These scans are from my original copy. To be alive is to eat. To enjoy life is to eat. To meet with family and friends and reminisce and plan the future is to eat. And of course, all of human culture, in one way or another revolves around our basic need to stay alive through producing, consuming, and loving food. So why do so few novelists, poets, lyricists, and other writers talk about food in their work? I’ve been cooking since I was a kid and have always loved everything about acquiring, making, and consuming food, and in recent years I’ve become an enthusiastic and productive gardener. I’ve relished (ba-dum-ching) my conversations with other people, but especially other writers, about f...