“because white men can’t police their imaginationblack men are dying” I reread Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric recently. Published in 2014, this poetic, artistic snapshot of Black life in the US is stunning in its impact and intellectual heft. The book is decidedly not written for white men like me, and can, maybe should make …
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What’s Making Me Happy This Week?
I want to establish a weekly series on this blog called “What’s Making Me Happy This Week,” lifted from everyone’s favorite segment on the best pop culture podcast. But somehow, despite the okay week I’ve had and the sunshine outside, it seems wrong to publish a column called “something something happy” today. You know, with the …
Stop worrying. Keep working. Advice T. Bone Burnett gave Roeanne Cash, according to her in this NYPL discussion with Paul Holdengräber.
Happiness is not good enough. Don’t rest on happiness. I mean it’s okay and I hope you are all happy, but we got to do more than that. Toni MorrisonJust one of many thought-provoking statements by Morrison in a 2010 conversation with Angela Davis on libraries, literacy, and liberation (and so much more) The discussion …
Serial
It’s really entertaining as a longtime listener of This American Life to see how many people seem to be confused that Serial is more about a story and storytelling than cold hard journalism and conclusion-driven investigation. Additionally, I’m pretty sure Sarah Koenig and the TAL producers are quite surprised by how big the spin-off is.
It’s kind of like storytelling s & m – sort of an alternate world in which Martin’s punches land, and they land hard enough that we feel them, but not so hard that we have to use our safe word. Once we heal, we might want to come back for another session. Jesse Thorn on …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 