Some Highlights from 2024.
I have been consistently publishing this newsletter every month for six years. One of the things I’ve learned from starting this newsletter and keeping up my website is just how much we forget. It’s been nice to look back each month and take stock of the things I’ve accomplished. It’s also created a sense of structure to my creative work and helped me manage and maintain goals. Now, with the way many social media companies are imploding, it’s more important than ever to carve out a space of one’s own on the internet. No matter what happens I have this website as a record of the work I’ve done. Of course there are still many other places to follow me online.
The Work
I’ve been writing poetry based on a mastodon community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Everything I posted in 2024 can be found here along with other poems I wrote throughout the year.
I created illustrations of a different fruit for each month this year. Check out all the illustrations I did in 2024. Here are all the abstract sketchbook illustrations I created in 2024.
As always, I published zines of all the work I created in 2024. Print them out for free and learn how to fold them here.
Support
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2024 in Lists
Books I Read in 2024
Felicity -by Joyce Y. Ng
Pacific Dream -by Vincent Lau
Memento Amoris – by Anya Martin
SACRED BODIES – by VER
Here Be Monsters Bones
In Fair Verona – by Val Wise by Val Wise
Leaf Litter – Jarod K Anderson
A Taste of Life – Sara Paretsky
Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity – Jodie Hare
Love, Pamela – by Pamela Anderson read by Pamela Anderson
Cat Pictures Please – by Naomi Kritzer
How to Hide an Empire – by Daniel Immerwahr read by Luis Moreno
It Eats What Feeds It Vol. 1 – by Max Hoven, Aaron Crow illustrated by Gabriel Iumazark
The Mushroom at the End of the World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy – by Bill Griffith illustrated by Bill Griffith
Palestine – by Joe Sacco illustrated by Joe Sacco
An Age Of License – by Lucy Knisley illustrated by Lucy Knisley
Disquiet – by Noah Van Sciver illustrated by Noah Van Sciver
Collapse – by Vladislav M. Zubok read by David De Vries
The Mere Future – by Sarah Schulman
Postcards From Congo – by Edmund Trueman
The Night Eaters #1: She Eats the Night – by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda
The Night Eaters Book 2: Her Little Reapers – by Marjorie Liu illustrated by Sana Takeda
Bandit – by Molly Brodak
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio – by Derf Backderf illustrated by Derf Backderf
Womb City – by Tlotlo Tsamaase
From Conflict to Community – by Gwendolyn Olton
Ephemera: A Memoir – by Briana Loewinsohn illustrated by Briana Loewinsohn
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America – by Navied Mahdavian illustrated – by Navied Mahdavian
Misnatched – By Anne Camlin Illustrated by Isadora Zeferino
12 Rules for Strife – Jedd Sparrow and Sam Wallman
Legalization Nation – Brian Box Brown
My Monster Girlfriend – Smut Peddler
All the Violet Tiaras – Jean Menzies
Here – Richard McGuire
Far Distant – A Liang Chan
Spores – Joshua Barkman
Taproot -Keezy Young
Dreamtoons – Jesse Reklaw
Stages of Rot – Linnea Sterte
Short Fiction I read in 2024
The Egg – A Short Story by Andy Weir Animated by Kurzgesagt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
Bits by Naomi Kritzer
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_10_13/
Wind Naomi Kritzer
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/wind
So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/
The Good Son by Naomi Kritzer
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-good-son/
The Barricade by Joyce Ch’ng
https://interzone.digital/the-barricade/
Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe by Naomi Kritzer
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_03_17/
The Garden of Time by James Graham Ballard
https://readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Garden-of-Time.pdf
Five Answers to Questions You Probably Have by John Wiswell
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/five-answers-to-questions-you-probably-have/
Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K. Jones
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five-views-of-the-planet-tartarus/
Not Lost (Never Lost) By Premee Mohamed
https://psychopomp.com/not-lost-never-lost/
The People from the Dead Whale
by Djuna, translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/djuna_09_23/
Flower People By John Holman
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/587-flower-people