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.
This link opens in a pop-up window
From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural …
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened …
Finally starting this book a year after I bought it!
A great introduction to the teachings of the Stoics, covering many aspects of day to day life. Most definitely encourages me to read their individual works, which I’ll do.
Discover how to achieve release-quality mixes even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques from the world's most successful …
Discover how to achieve release-quality mixes even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques …
A terrific book, great advice on every page. Written in a very accessible style and easy to digest. I hope to have it within arms reach forever.
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …
this seems like a path to contentment.
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated …
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in …
Just picked up a copy of this book, after having wanted it for years.
Discover how to achieve release-quality mixes even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques …
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.
A nice respite from my usual non-fiction, this small collection had some good short stories and a few decent poems. The second issue of their journal that I've read. Pretty good.
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent …
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 …
