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Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
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Craig Werner
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| My life as a dedicated science fiction reader began at the tail end of the "Golden Age"--Clarke, Asimove, Heinlein and their predecessors. At the time, the "science" part of Sci Fi was much more central than it became in later decades when social sci ...more | |
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| Fascinating meditation on how to engage a historical archive to think through events that took place in 1800 in Guatemala. There's a "true crime" backdrop, but the center of the story is on the challenge of reconstructing a world view that combines f ...more | |
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Organized around California wildfires, motherhood and the death of a friend, Smother joins the growing list of contemporary poetry volumes confronting the existential, political and psychological mess we've collectively created: The people huddled look ...more |
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| An excellent engagement with the relative importance of technological advances (the "wizardly" emphasis) and the emphasis on reducing consumption and living in sustainable ways (the "prophetic" approach). Mann builds his broad-ranging book around the ...more | |
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 779 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
