🌱 How Kotzebue ties helped shape an Iñupiaq horror novel

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In today's newsletter:

• How Kotzebue ties helped shape an Iñupiaq horror novel

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: A little snow in the morning, with a high of 20 and low of 16 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
• Thursday: A little snow in the morning, temps: high: 22, low: 17.
• Friday: A little snow in the morning, with a high of 21 and low of 14 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Northwestern student's debut horror novel puts Arctic Alaska at its center (northwestern.edu) — A troubling account of an encounter in Kotzebue, her mother's hometown, helped inspire Mathilda Zeller's debut horror novel, “It Looks Like You in the Dark.” Drawing on Iñupiaq stories learned from her grandfather, Zeller follows a young woman searching for her missing sister in the Kobuk River Valley, with relatives helping check the manuscript's accuracy.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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