Preaching to the Perverted by James Bennett
Horror can be a source of release - our fears, our anger at the world’s injustices and also our hopes - to be seen, understood and accepted for who we…
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
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}…