Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s Friday and it feels like the first Friday of Spring here in North Dakotaland. The temperatures have soared into the mid-40, the snow is mostly melted, and the ground has that spongy, post-frozen feeling to it. For a semester and a year that seemed to be a bit relentless, an early Spring seems like a great act of mercy.

This week has been pretty exciting. First, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota published  Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean edited by Rebecca M. Seifried and Deborah E. Brown Stewart. Download a copy here!

I also sent issued North Dakota Quarterly issue 88.1/2 to our publishing partners at University of Nebraska Press. You can check out the table of contents here. We’re excited to announce that UNP has also made some discounts on subscriptions and back issues available during this years AWP meeting. Check them out here. 

Finally, did I mention that it’s Friday and that means some quick hits and varia:

• Hesperia 90.1 (2021)

• My favorite thing about the Society for Classical Studies is their occasional practice of making MYSTERIOUS STATEMENTS. I can’t wait to learn what this is about!

• I suspect Maximus Planudes agrees with me.

• The Small Cycladic Islands Project (2019–2020).

• Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period.

• Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum.

• Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan.

• The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary.

• Before the Bakken went boom.

• History and Race (feat. Dr. Ronald Crutcher).

• Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness.

• NDSU Press 2021 Poetry of the Plains & Prairies Award.

• New Version of Sun Ra’s Lanquidity.

• Dead Serious Absurdity.

• Is it Bandcamp Friday?

• What I’m reading: Allison Mickel, Why Those Who Shovel are Silent: a history of local archaeological knowledge and labor. Colorado 2021. 

• What I’m listening to: Dave Douglas, Dizzy Atmosphere.

• What I’m listening to (bonus edition): Byard Lancaster, My Pure Joy.