Narrating Audiobooks From Other Worlds
The field of audiobooks has exploded since the introduction of mp3 players, and it continues to expand. But it takes a unique set of skills to voice audiobooks in sci-fi…
Entertrained
Practice touch typing by retyping famous novels. Not only will you improve your typing skills, but you’ll also enjoy some of the greatest stories ever told! A good place to…
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library
Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft…
The mere future by Sarah Schulman
I think the way to make a dystopia its bleakest is to run it through the language of marketing. This book is so fucking dark. The mere future by Sarah…
Whiteness Riots
Whiteness riots have familiar features: police partisanship, local and national media fomentation, moral panics about crime and ‘race-mixing’, followed by calls for new criminal and immigration legislation.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
What is democracy?
Donald Sutherland reading from Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The 1990s Were Weirder Than You Think. We’re Feeling the Effects.
In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right. {read}…
The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
To read contemporary American fiction is to swim through a sea of fatphobia so normalized that it is almost never remarked upon in book reviews, and those who perpetuate it…
It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books
There is an enormous amount of invisible work that is done in publishing. Adding a standard credit page would not be an answer to the various and copious labor problems…