Steven Ray started reading Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search …
I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race, class struggle, wine, baseball, music…
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year.
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Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search …
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated …
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated …
Discover how to achieve release-quality mixes even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques from the world's most successful …
After the first chapter, it’s clear to me that this book is chock full of tips to elevate your mixes to rival any professional production. I’m already taking the author’s advice and running with it. A great pickup.
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated …
In this age when so much is wrong with the world, Frédéric Gros seeks to convince us that by obeying others we disobey ourselves. Also, that our highest calling is to defend the community that we are a part of, our human community. By undertaking a habit of civil disobedience, we resist injustice. When we speak up for ourselves, we speak up for the whole of humanity.
He references people as diverse as Thoreau and Eichmann, Antigone and Kant, Foucault and la Boétie, finishing with Socrates and Plato. Describing the various ways we justify to ourselves the continuation of our docility, this obeisance to authority which we’ve practiced since childhood, he seeks avenues through which we can finally be true to ourselves.
I’d say he succeeds, if only we’ll take his lesson to heart.
The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a posthumously published memoir of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It …
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this …