Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a haunted man: Heavy Is the Crown: George R.R. Martin on His Triumphs and Torments.
Accurate in every way: Fascists are Pathetic.
WHAT? Senegal's Spear-wielding Savannah Chimps Yield Clues On Humanity's Past.
This is brilliant: The loving lies a father wrote to his daughter from a gulag.
This is from Texas Monthly's archives and it's a tremendous piece of journalism: Love and Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I: Candy Montgomery’s Affair.
Here's an excerpt from the article I'm about to link:
The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ come from the seating arrangements in the National Assembly during the French Revolution, where the combatants used the medieval estate groupings to define their battle lines. According to their writings, land-owning aristocrats (the Second Estate) were the party of the Right, while the interests of nearly everyone else (the Third Estate) belonged to the Left.
Landholder vs stockholder: In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions.
A fantastic list: From Dylan to disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: the 30 best live albums ever – ranked!
From D.G.F., and it's fantastic: Landslide; a ghost story.
From Wally, and it's tremendous: The Kept and the Killed: Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center. On-brand for a cat: A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago. It's back: Gourmet Magazine Is Back. It’s Not Exactly Sanctioned.
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