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May 26, 2020

Twitter Highlights: May 26




I've assembled the first version of the Nasruddin book: all 200 stories, all in order with good titles, so tomorrow I start proofreading! But I did some Twitter today too. :-)

Two very cool items for epic class; this one from Scroll: Characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Yes, it is by the ever-awesome Devdutt Pattanaik.


And via Anand Neelakantan himself (one of my favorite writers), comes this piece about Mahabharata retellings: Mahabharata retellings that every mytho-fiction lover should read.


I might be able to use this Aeon piece as a Story Lab option somehow: A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality.


And another Aeon piece, this time on gibberish:


A Caribbean resource via Cathy Davidson from HASTAC: DVCAI's Caribbean and Latin American Art Digital Archive.

Via Mary Anna Evans, a Roman mosaic!


Hilarity from National Park Service:


Something from MindShift: How Bibliotherapy Can Help Students Open Up About Their Mental Health.


So cool project via Jackie GersteinLiteracy Projects from Let's Invent #ScratchMonth.


Interview with another of my favorite writers, Amitav Ghosh (he writes both fiction and non-fiction about climate and climate change):