#sundayread for January 3, 2021

Photo: Nenad Stojkovic (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for January 3, 2021:
- Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 55
#poetry - Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow-era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults.
By Ko Bragg @keaux_
(h/t @Longreads) - How judicial conflicts of interest are denying poor Texans their right to an effective lawyer
By Neena Satija @neenareports
(h/t @Longreads) - Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
https://bit.ly/37NRmyC - How court-ordered drug testing in Alabama poses impossible choices
By @LizFlock and Ashley Remkus @aremkus1 - Los Angeles’ storied Magic Castle shaken by allegations of sexual misconduct, racism
By @DanielNMiller and Amy Kaufman @AmyKinLA
(RT @deborahblum) - Flashback: No need for repetition in writing
- The Optics of Opportunity: The story of a literary fellowship that maybe wasn’t so strange at all
By Hafizah Geter @RhetoricAndThis
(h/t @Longreads) - Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn’t make his own pain go away.
By @JenSeniorNY
(via @deborahblum) - Flashback: Our dude’s on “Jeopardy!”
- “He’s Radioactive”: Inside Johnny Depp’s Self-Made Implosion
By @TatianaSiegel27 - How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
By @AlecMacGillis - The Social Life of Forests
By @FerrisJabr - To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
By Mandy Len Catron @LenMandy
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