Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
“Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics.”
Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
“Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics.”
“Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.”
Day 4 of the AMOLM virtual tour, and the wonderful YA Books Central has an interview with me (and giveaway of a copy of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters)!
“Living peacefully in society means understanding that the things others care about might mean nothing to you and vice versa” Book 23 of 2024 is Zadie Smith’s eclectic collection of essays - Grand Union #reading@bookstodonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43608928
Sassy & Sizzling Romances - Summer Afternoon Reads with Guaranteed HEAs! Whether you like sweet or steamy, angsty or adorable, these reads will fill a summer afternoon. https://storyoriginapp.com/to/f4K6rGw@bookstodon#books#romance#reading
"The book didn’t want anyone to know it was there. If it were destroyed, everyone who’d survived in the story would be gone too. There would be no one left to remember the ones who had died. The balance of the world goes horribly askew when a story is confiscated; it becomes a darker, more ominous place." -- from 'The Book Censor's Library' by Bothayna Al-Essa; trans. Ranya Abdeirahman, Sawad Hussain
Labor Fest 2024 is coming to the SF Bay Area this July.
If you're in the Bay Area, July 21, 5-8 pm, please come hear me read from my working-class historical novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill. Signed copies will be available.
Make an evening of it. Or a weekend.
Lots of wonderful speakers and musical and theatrical performances!
And report-backs on organizing efforts among low-wage workers of color.
I’m listening to this song now while reading Star Wars Thrawn. No, it’s not a direct allusion to the Thrawn of Rebels (because there it seems to me a little different from the books), but it definitely helped me get in the mood.
@madcollector I read the first 50 pages and I also got the feeling it’s Rebels’ Thrawn other than the Thrawn Trilogy. I found some minor inconsistencies (I think, but it’s too early, I need to read more), but so far so good.
I finally started reading the origin tale of Mitth’raw’nuruodo! He’s one of my favorite Star Wars characters since the Thrawn Trilogy. It’s good to be back.
Allen Grossman's provided the inspiration for this week's #blog post, which is chock full of thoughts on #poetry and #AI, with additional help from #Adorno, #PaulCelan, and other stellar representatives of #Humanity :
At the store and came across a pretty discounted hardcover copy of "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver. It is worth purchasing a physical copy? I usually try to stick to library books and purchase books I really like, but the library wait list is long and the price is tempting.
About to travel and was looking for something good to read.
I've been indulging myself by re-reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's 'Braiding Sweetgrass' this weekend. It's such a gift to look at the world through her eyes.
"When we braid sweetgrass, we are braiding the hair of Mother Earth, showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and well-being, in gratitude for all she has given us." #CurrentlyReading#BookQuote#reading#books@bookstodon
Thank you for your comment. A varied reading list keeps boredom away and helps to improve mood. After all, it is said that “variety is the spice of life”.
Book 24: Summerwater, by Sarah Moss.
This novel consists of several vignettes in which we are shown the same situation (holiday cabins in the Trossachs, incessant rain) from the point of view of various characters, each with their own troubles and complaints. And then there's that one house with the loud music that seems to unite them in annoyance... Very well written.
The Witch King. By Martha Wells.
You are a demon prince that inhabits mortal bodies in a strange land full of mortals and non- mortals who have access to various powers, which they mostly only use to acquire more mundane powers of social control.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈. @bookstodon#bookstodon#reading#fantasy#witches#demons#lgbtq
“Since the Egyptian scribe Ahmes put pen to papyrus some time around 1550BC to explain how to calculate the slope of a pyramid, we’ve had over three millennia of maths literature. So within some level of statistical confidence: here are a subset of the best ever maths books.”