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Matthew Gleeson (LA Review of Books, 6/26/2020), "... Remembering Amparo Dávila": "She made a name for herself as a writer in Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s, then fell out of sight sometime after the 1970s, only to be rediscovered and lauded, at the beginning of the new millennium, as one of the country's great masters of the short story." Several of Amparo Dávila's stories are available online: "The Houseguest" (audio in Spanish), "The Tomb Garden," "Oscar" (related waltzes), "The Breakfast" (related song), and "The Cell." Interviews with the author in Spanish and the translators in English. Relevant 2018 Worldcon panel on women writing horror in Mexico (plus the free Mexicanx Initiative SF anthology, A Larger Reality, still at Dropbox).
posted by Wobbuffet at 10:25 PM PST - 3 comments

Which AI are you? Janelle Shane (previously; Twitter) led her neural network to produce a somewhat surreal personality quiz. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo at 6:56 PM PST - 24 comments

Today, I was introduced to the work of British photographer Ingrid Pollard by our favourite tweeting museum. Diving into her work, I found her doctoral disseration (Westminster, 2016), and the thread pointed to a journal article (Kinsman, 1995) analysing (Bertrand, 2014) her body of work.
posted by infini at 12:27 PM PST - 3 comments

On Sex with Demons. With demon sperm trending in the news, Medievalist Dr. Eleanor Janega takes a brief look back at the rich medieval history of horny devils: "See the devil can’t make his own semen, being as he is incapable of making life, so in order to get his hands on fresh come, he transforms himself into a succubus, has sex with a dude, nabs the semen from said dude, then transforms himself into an incubus, shags a witch and injects the stolen jizz in order to knock her up."
posted by Kabanos at 10:31 AM PST - 99 comments

The University of San Antonio Texas Libraries Special Collections is curating a special collection of historic Mexican recipes as free e-books. This will be a three volume endeavor and they've saved the best for first - Postres (Desserts). [more inside]
posted by brookeb at 8:53 AM PST - 10 comments

Nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica launched The NYPD Files in a hurry - after New York lawmakers repealed a law that kept the public from seeing police discipline records, ProPublica filed a records request, and then police unions sued to keep the records secret, without realizing that ProPublica had those records. Now you can search NYPD complaints for abuse of authority, unnecessary force, and even discourtesy. [more inside]
posted by kristi at 7:59 AM PST - 13 comments

Ibrahim Maalouf is a French-Lebanese jazz trumpeter and composer.
Here are a few concerts from his YT feed:
LIVE IN ISTANBUL - 07/06/2013
Alcaline 1/25/2016
North Sea Jazz Festival Holland 2014
Paléo Festival 2012
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posted by growabrain at 4:23 AM PST - 5 comments