Link Roundup: Supporting Your Local Library, a History of Violence, & Who Owns Genetic Data?
These links have been sitting in my inbox, waiting to be read. Here I’ve gathered them to share with you for any airport delays, boring work days, or beach browsing:
The Dos and Don’ts of Supporting Your Local Library: For God's Sake, Do Not Recatalog a Book With Sharpie [Lit Hub]
A History of Violence, from Frontier to Family: Paula Saunders Examines the Parallel Lines of History and Home [Lit Hub]
Worshiping the False Idols of Wellness: Charcoal, “toxins” and other forms of nonsense are the backbone of the wellness-industrial complex [The New York Times]
How to Write a Book Without Losing Your Mind: Expert advice on ending procrastination and finishing that manuscript, dissertation, or other big project [The Atlantic]
Uninformed and Uncompensated: Between 23andme and Ancestry, Who Owns Our Genetic Data? [Bitch Media]
The True Crime Wave [Vulture]
The Dharma Girls [The Paris Review]
A Breakdown Of "By The Book" Columns Shows That Male Authors Are Four Times More Likely To Recommend Books By Men Than By Women [Bustle]
The Trouble with Dogs for a Writer [The New Yorker]
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages: What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us? [The New Yorker]