06 January: Kicking Off 2017 • [PDF]
Approximately 1,200 words • Topics: packing • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens • Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow • The Hamilton Mixtape
13 March: Hurrying Up and Waiting • [PDF] 
Approximately 3,200 words • Topics: hurrying up and waiting • Elanor Susan • Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow • Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow • Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett • Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds • Death’s End by Cixin Liu • The Wild Robot by Peter Brown • Wollheim’s World’s Best Science Fiction: Series 4 aka The 1975 Annual World’s Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim
06 June: A Deplorable Fever • [PDF] 
Approximately 8,700 words • Topics: the old office and studio • the new house • our fever • the deplorable left • Driftglass’s angry tribalism • the professional left world view • in a dark place • balanced in the scales and found wanting • never Hillary • why Trump? • Animals by Pink Floyd • the New Yorker • Revenger by Alastair Reynolds • Crime and Punishment by Foydor Dostoevsky, translated by Oliver Ready • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling • I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett • Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet by Douglas Adams and James Goss
12 June: Swamp Daze • [PDF] 
Approximately 4,700 words • Topics: tall grass • work • sorting and packing • White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams • solidarity and the lack of it • Doctor Who Series Ten
16 June: A Cooling-Off Period • [PDF] 
Approximately 2,100 words • Topics: climate change • White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams • Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet by Douglas Adams and James Goss • Pottscast news
17 July: You Should See the Other Guy • [PDF] 
Approximately 2,300 words • Topic: our baby daughter Elanor’s open-heart surgery
21 July: Read It, Late July 2017 • [PDF] 
Approximately 6,000 words • Topics: news • driving • For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver • William Hope Hodgson • My Struggle, Book 5 by Karl Ove Knausgaard • Essentialism by Greg McKeown • shaving
28 August: The End of Summer • [PDF] 
Approximately 6,500 words • Topics: summer in Michigan • the Blueberry Book Barn • Science Fiction Book Club editions • “The Little Black Bag” by C. M. Kornbluth • The Grace and Paul Pottscast • BBEdit worksheets • the Pottscast feeds • Proxima by Stephen Baxter • Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin • I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling • the Glenn Carrig remastered
25 September: The End of my Forties • [PDF] 
Approximately 2,500 words • Topics: Pottscast update • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling • Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds • “— And He Built a Crooked House —” by Robert A. Heinlein • “The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline” by Isaac Asimov
09 October: Read It, October 2017 • [PDF] 
Approximately 4,300 words • Topics: Doctor Strange (2016 film) • Deep Navigation by Alastair Reynolds • The Compleat Enchanter by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp • The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
24 October: Blade Runner 2049 • [PDF] 
Approximately 6,000 words • Topics: Blade Runner 2049 (2017 film): my long-form critical review (spoiler warning: this review discloses pretty much everything that happens in the film!)
13 November: Read It and Watched It, November 2017 • [PDF] 
Approximately 1,700 words • Topics: Deep Navigation by Alastair Reynolds, continued • d’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire • Thor: Ragnarok (2017 film)
