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The following is an excerpt from Bill Moyers’ new book, “Moyers on Democracy” (Doubleday, 2008). Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck. The reigning presumption about the American experience, as the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has written, is grounded in the idea of progress, the conviction that [...] When I started my part time bookstore job last month, I began to hear anecdotes from my fellow booksellers about customer habits, quirks and trends.One such discussion concerned customer complaints about which books we stock and which books we don’t. I was unsurprised to learn that we regularly get complaints from customers who think [...] A while back I found a book tucked in with some old atlases and maps on one of the many bookshelves that adorn the walls of the remote fortified family compound known as Tildebunkport… A post-it note on the book said “Found with Gramma’s things” but I knew immediately that the book had to have come [...] Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge: Volume 2: Minnesota by Mary Charlotte Aubry Costello When an elementary school art teacher in Davenport, Iowa instructed her fifth grade students to study and sketch the local Mississippi River bridges one semester, probably neither the teacher nor her students nor anyone else had any inkling that a decades-long labor [...] Two articles about Naomi Klein’s new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Why Can’t the U.S. Have the Debate about Naomi Klein’s Book That Europe Has? In Europe and Canada debate is raging about Naomi Klein’s new book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine. This [...] Tild sez:  The responsibility for economic policies enacted in the past 27 years that have targeted working class America for destruction needs to be laid exactly where it belongs: on the right’s beloved Saint Ronald fucking Reagan. A new book by Dean Baker takes some big strides towards that end… America Since 1980: A Right Turn [...] Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at the age of 84. I know I’m just one of a multitude saying it, but I have to say that this news leaves me very sad.  Actually I’m only familiar with a few of his books: Mother Night Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons Slaughterhouse Five and, my first encounter with him: The Sirens of Titan ..which I read when I was 13, [...] (via PZ) Here’s a list of The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years. When I first looked it over I couldn’t believe how many of these books I have NOT read. Shocking. For example: I have not read Sword of Shannara. Tsk, and I call myself an SF&F fan! Here’s the list [...] And They Cook, Too A Blogger Cookbook Fundraiser for From the introduction: Last year on October 8 an earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit Kashmir, the northern part of Pakistan. Being a native Californian, I know [...] It took me two– count’em –TWO hours yesterday to traverse the 20+/- miles from Tildebunkport to Nordeast for the weekly DL festivities. Gaaah. Then once I finally got there the 331 Club seemed even more crowded than usual: the rain kept everyone inside, and it was the farewell (for the [...] |
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