Please, read this book. I have just finished listening to it, read by the author. It is important. It is difficult. It is true. It is a call to examine what we are willing to do, what we are willing to sit by and do nothing about. It is brutal. It is necessary. Just read
It is rare for me that I don’t enjoy a book but for some reason, SISTERS by Lily Tuck got under my skin. I think that might be the point. I don’t know where I heard about or saw this book, but I was driven to read something on a plane ride back from Boulder,
Please watch this. It will make you smile. And it will break your heart. https://aeon.co/videos/young-palestinians-find-fleeting-moments-of-freedom-at-a-west-bank-skate-park
An exceptional conversation between Helena de Groot and Catherine Barnett. Well worth a listen… https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/74636/poetryofftheshelf
This, this is a stunner of a book. Gorgeous! I chose to listen to it and I felt like I was listening to a book length poem. A verbal painting. An aural landscape. I felt transported. Orbital describes a 24 hour cycle in the lives of six astronauts in near earth orbit in a space
Hey y’all – the year is wrapping up and I find myself intrigued by people’s roundups of reading and such. This is the best one I’ve seen yet: https://shiraerlichman.substack.com/p/my-top-6-novels-of-2024 To boot, I have the Virginia Woolf novel on my shelf and am inspired to dig into it thanks to @shiraerlichman What are you reading?
Been a minute since I was on aeon.co — If you know me, you know I’m an anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist to be precise). This article is a warm and fuzzy explanation of modern day anarchism you may enjoy: https://aeon.co/essays/what-san-francisco-carpooling-tells-us-about-anarchism
Where to start? This book was such an unexpected pleasure. It was funny – hilarious even. It was riveting, eye opening, a surprisingly easy read. The impulse to read this book came from my desire to understand, really understand, what makes a person make the kind of decision that Navalny made – to return to
I got a lot out of watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyd0ve1B8E4
I found this book in my bookcase on my ‘to read’ shelf. It is an award winning fictional graphic novel that recounts the author’s ‘birthright’ trip to Israel. The book was published in 2016. After having a debate with her mother about the State of Israel, Glidden decides she will take advantage of a free
Seasonal Reading 