Best of 2017

A summary of books, films, TV, performances, and other things produced, consumed and enjoyed this year by me:

Best Non-Fiction Read for the First Time

• A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture by Raul Coronado
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Megan Kate Nelson

Best Fiction/Poetry Read for the First Time:

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet
• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Best TV Watched for the First Time: 

• Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
• BoJack Horseman (2014-)
• Dear White People (2017-)
• GLOW (2017-)
• The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016)
• Veep (2012-)

Best Movies Watched for the First Time:

• Chicago (2002)
• Sing Street (2016)
• Tallulah (2016)
• World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (2017)

Best Performances:

• In The Heights @ Brown University Stuart Theatre (Sock & Buskin)
• Les Miserables @ Providence Performing Arts Center
• Fun Home @ Providence Performing Arts Center
• JFK100 @ The Kennedy Center

(Some of the best) Posts/Articles/Podcasts/Talks By Other People Published This Year:

• Digital Is More Than a Department, It Is a Collective Responsibility by Loic Tallon (Mediu)
• I am not a Social Media Guru by W. Ryan Dodge (Medium)
• At World’s End by Reply All (Gimlet Media)
• The Choreography of Things by Sydney Skybetter (Brown University)
• What wearing the “green and grey” means in 21^st-century America by Leah Burgin (John Nichols Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage)
• Why Does Canada150 Give Canadian Historians a Headache? By Andrea Eidinger (Unwritten Histories)
• At the Metropolitan Museum by Matthew Siegel (poem-a-day)

Best Pieces Written by Me: 

• Digital Storytelling: It’s Britney Bitch: Commentary on Distortion in Spears’s Use of Social Media
• HASTAC: Collaborative Review of Structuring Equality, Chapter 3: The Atlanta Compromise, Reacting to the Past
• Medium: Catalog as Book, File, and Database: Cataloging History, Part 3
• SCLDA: Documenting the Use of the Smithsonian Learning Lab Among Smithsonian Museums, Research Centers, and Programmatic Offices
• Stars Hollow Historical Society: The Founding of Stars Hollow: Glassberg on Gilmore Girls (Part One)
• The Artifice: The Degrassi Franchise on the Teenage Experience
• Website (Personal): What I Learned During My Summer Practicum: On Escape, Reevaluation, and Being a Public Human