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This personal and frank book offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville …
This book isn’t bound for my “awful books that have my name in them” pile, but it’s close. Ultimately, it’s about a guy who is certainly among the like, 200 most influential yet unaccountable lawyers who decide what free speech really means navel gazing about the marketplace of ideas.
This personal and frank book offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville …
I’m not sure if this book is going to piss me off or enlighten me.
This is a fantastic and critical retrospective on an era of social media that is ended, even if its momentum will propel it forward a few more years. Read this, if you genuinely want to change your relationship to social media.
Principles of Mathematical Analysis, colloquially known as "PMA" or "Baby Rudin," is an undergraduate real analysis textbook written by Walter …
Time to finally dive into Katherine’s book. It’s a relevant introspection for how we use social media.
On to #78 on the Modern Library list. This is one of the oldest books on the list. Let’s see if it holds up.
American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye …
A book that remains relevant some thirty years after its publication. It’s a clear and incisive look into the American self-perception and one that remains relevant as companies keep trying to dazzle us with technology.
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual …
I was hoping for a little more out of this. It reaffirmed many of my thoughts, I suppose, but a deeper wisdom was not to be found. I think far richer analyses have been had by any number of perhaps lesser-renowned thinkers in the social media era.
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual …
Picking up some Sonntag to prep for some Butler. I’ve been thinking about this topic lately, how we consume images of trauma, what that means for us, and what that means for the world. Maybe I’ll find some wisdom here.
This book was great, man. I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve read it. It’s like “what if one of the best novels of all time but it’s about one of the best dogs of all time”
On to #88 on the ML100. I think this is the only young reader book on the list.
A quick, exciting read. The book jacket says it inspired Camus’s The Stranger, one of my favorite books when I was younger. I can see that.
#98 on the Modern Library list down. 21 books in.
On to #98 on the Modern Library list. I’m looking forward to a new genre
Now available in print for the first time with author's notes on each story, this …
And the short stories done, too. A nice little coda. It keeps the world open, the curiosity alive. Some threads should stay loose.
Leviathan Falls is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name …
Ah, I am going to hold this story like an old dear friend in my heart for a long, long time. Just incredible, incredible. A privilege to have read it.