Links and Notes for the Week of January 6, 2019 2019-01-14 John Winkelman The latest Metafilter catch-all thread discussing the state of US politics here at the beginning of 2019. 1.4 Million Floridians Just Got Their Voting Rights Back Today, Whether Republicans Like It or Not. Five upcoming short story collections by Arabic writers. In particular I am looking forward to Palestine +100, since Iraq +100 was an excellent book. David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books, of which I have read 17. Arundhati Roy explains How to Think About Empire in an interview up at The Boston Review. A useful tip for managing complex writing and worldbuilding: Create a Wiki. From the brilliant journal N+1: The Best of a Bad Situation. Or, what extinction looks like from the inside.