workweek reading recs (16 November, 2024)

[matsushima]

Good morning and "Happy Monday!" I am (finally…) on winter break but I have a dentist's appointment today, so… bonus link about scammy dentists!

• Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? (12/2024)
• Mackenzie is Pulling Out Her Hair (4/2015)
  TW: body focused repetitive behavior
• Addy Walker, American Girl (5/2015)
• A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones (11/2024)
• Poetry: Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, by Richard Siken

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Comments

[matsushima]

Two comments on today's links…

Re: the future of teaching literature and writing, I am having this argument with my boss at the elementary school level. The so-called "AI" rot goes deep.

I have a dental implant and it was expensive ($3,000+ out of pocket because I didn't have insurance at the time; I had to crowdfund online to afford it) but I guess there's no way to ever know if I got scammed and the real tooth could've been saved with a (less expensive) root canal and crown. That said, I had another tooth shatter the same way (it's genetic) and when I went to my new dentist in a different country and asked if it would have to be pulled, she literally laughed in my face, so…