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My Year in Review: 2022
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My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :
Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre
The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière
Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh
Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe
Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*
La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*
Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*
The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung
#book recs#i haven't finished the last one yet but it's been good so far! i really admire these women's resilience and solidarity#some inspiring stories of political activism + insight into aspects of korean history i didn't know about#i wanted to do a half-fiction half-nonfiction list like last year but i've read mostly disappointing fiction this year :(#my favourites were probably kivirähk's the man who spoke snakish & catherynne valente's radiance; though it wasn't as good as orphan tales#i'm reading jacques abeille's les jardins statuaires right now and it's quite frustrating because on the one hand#it's well-written and interesting with original worldbuilding. on the other i'm 300 pages in and there have been#2 female characters. the purpose of both (so far) was to have sex with the male protagonist and only 1 has a name#which makes the read feel less original and more ''same old shit as far as i'm concerned''
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"La caída de la casa Usher" (Miniserie )
Inspirada en la obra de Edgar Allan Poe protagonizada entre otros muchos por Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell y Mark Hamill.
Desde "La Maldición de Hill House", Mike Flanagan ha construido un universo antológico en el que ha explorado el drama familiar, el trauma y el duelo en clave de terror inspirado en obras emblemáticas del género. "La caída de la Casa Usher", que será la última colaboración entre el creador y Netflix, es también su propuesta más ambiciosa, en la que hace su propia revisión a la responsabilidad de la dinastía Sackler en la epidemia de opioides con el filtro de la obra de Edgar Allan Poe.
El Oxicontin se convierte aquí en Ligodone, pero tal como hicieron Dopesick y Medicina letal, esta miniserie también pone el foco en un imperio familiar que amasó su fortuna a costa de las vidas de millones de personas que fueron engañadas con la promesa de una droga que acabaría con su dolor crónico sin crear adicción.
La historia comienza con Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), el patriarca de un imperio farmacéutico, padre de seis hijos de cinco madres diferentes, que invita a un fiscal local para hacerle una confesión: aunque las muertes de sus hijos, ocurridas una tras otra en pocos días parezcan trágicos accidentes, él es responsable de todas y cada una de ellas.
A partir de ahí, en cada episodio se irá tejiendo la historia de origen de Roderick y su hermana Madeleine con la muerte de uno de sus hijos, cada una de ellas inspirada en alguna obra de Poe.
En la serie, como en la vida real, el gobierno luchó durante años para derribar este imperio y llevar a sus responsables ante la justicia, pero siempre habían conseguido esquivar responsabilidades gracias a su dinero y a las artimañas del abogado de la familia, Arthur Pym (Mark Hamill). Hasta ahora, y eso es lo más satisfactorio de la serie.
Si por la vía legal los crímenes de la familia Sackler han quedado impunes, en "La caída de la Casa Usher" el espectador encontrará satisfacción viendo morir a sus avatares de las formas más macabras posibles. Justicia poética.
La figura inventada para la serie que, de todos modos, se conecta con un personaje de la obra de Poe (no diré cuál, aunque cualquiera que tenga un mínimo conocimiento de anagramas se dará cuenta) es la misteriosa Verna (Carla Gugino), un ser en apariencia sobrenatural que aparece a lo largo de la historia de la familia y está presente usualmente en las muertes de los hijos de Roderick. Es a través de la conexión entre todos estos brutales crímenes que la serie produce sus momentos más propios de un relato de terror, ya que las muertes de estos hijos ya adultos –todos bastante impresentables, convengamos– suelen ser bastante violentas y desagradables.
Gran parte de la trama transcurre en la actualidad, con referencias directas o indirectas al mundo que conocemos (Inteligencia Artificial, racismo, misoginia, privilegios de millonarios, cambio climático y así) pero apoyadas en un misterio esencial: ¿quién está matando a los hijos de Usher y por qué? ¿Qué sucedió en el pasado de la familia que va llevando a que algo o alguien se esté cobrando sus vidas?
Cada episodio tiene el nombre de un cuento o poema de Poe: «El escarabajo de oro», «El pozo y el péndulo», «El gato negro», «El cuervo», «La máscara de la muerte roja», «El corazón delator» y «Los crímenes de la calle Morgue», aunque no en este orden. Y en cada uno de ellos buena parte de la trama de esas historias en su versión literaria se incorpora, más directa o indirectamente, a la principal.
Cada capítulo dura una horita completa, merece la pena no perderse esta serie 👍👍👍
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Reading List
to be updated constantly
Articles:
"Why Women Online Can’t Stop Reading Fairy Porn" by C.T. Jones for Rolling Stone
"They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars." by Brett Murphy for ProPublica
"‘I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!’" by Emily Gould for The Cut
"Woman in Retrograde" by Isabel Cristo for The Cut
"The unwanted Spanish soccer kiss is textbook male chauvinism. Don’t excuse it" by Moira Donegan for the Guardian
"I Started the Media Men List" by Moira Donegan for The Cut
"What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers" by Jordana Rosenfeld for The Nation
"The Key Detail Missing From the Narrative About O.J. and Race" by Joel Anderson for Slate
"The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya" by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture
"OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had" by Moira Donegan for The Guardian
"Norm Macdonald Was the Hater O.J. Simpson Could Never Outrun" by Miles Klee for Rolling Stone
"Trans Stylists and Makeup Artists Are Reshaping Red Carpet Looks. Will They Get the Credit They’re Due?" by James Factora
"The ‘perfect Aryan’ child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish" by Terrence McCoy for The Washington Post
"There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity" by Maris Kreizman for Literary Hub
"An O.J. Juror on What The People v. O.J. Simpson Got Right and Wrong" by Ashley Reese for Vulture
"Super Cute Please Like" by Nicole Lipman for N + 1 Magazine
Essays:
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxanne Gay
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
"On Chappell Roan and Gen Z Pop" by Miranda Reinert
"In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson" by Andrea Dworkin
"My Gender Is Dyke" by Alexandria Juarez for Autostraddle
"Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation" by Hamilton Nolan
Nonfiction:
Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt
What it Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Fiction:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg
Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
Blackouts by Justin Torres
We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
The Faithless by C.L. Clark
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Institute by Stephen King
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
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Reading and Response #3- Projection: Vanishing and Becoming by Sean Cubitt
Sean Cubitt dives into some of the fundamentals of drawing and painting. He examines these principles and how they translate into video and film. Cubitt begins his article by historically diving into the Buddhist tale of the origin of art and how it compares to Pliny’s story of the origins of paining and use of light and shadows. These tales go into the origin of use of line, light, reflection, shadow, and projection. Projection is a very important word in this article. From artists projecting light and shadows onto prints, as well as lines and colors; Cubitt also explores the metaphorical meaning of projection. How we as humans use projection. It is vital in childhood and human development. Think back to when we were children and could not communicate properly with words we would have to project emotion to get across what we were needing. Projection could be literal, metaphorical, implied,etc. In video art you are able to project all of the above. With the creation of film and cameras artist had the ability to visually project their message. Rather that message be direct or implied, the artist had more resources at their fingertips to create their visual work. Art is considered a way to preserve. Video would be the ultimate preservation tool. To capture a moment in time, forever. A way to outlive Father Time. This made me think if this is something video artists consider when starting their project. Is that part of the purpose of using video? For this particular artwork to “cheat death”. With today’s technology like the internet and media platforms, even if a video is deleted does it really “die” or does it live forever in some spaces? Do artists consider that aspect today?
5 examples of time based art/video art/film/cinematic artist:
William Kentridge (South African, born 1955). The Refusal of Time, 2012. Five-channel digital video installation, black-and-white and color, sound, 30 min. Steel megaphones, and a breathing machine ("elephant"), dimensions variable. Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2013. Purchased for The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and Wendy Fisher Gifts and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler 21st Century Art Fund (2013.250). © William Kentridge. All rights reserved.
Video Flag, 1995, Nam June Paik. Pictured on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1996. “Video Flag’s enormous bank of 70 14 in. CRT monitors represents the American flag’s stars and stripes through flashing imagery of technological advances and iconic moments from American politics: news stills, rotating shots of the State of Liberty, scrolling streams of zeros and ones (the binary language of computers), and a morphing sequence portraying U.S. president portraits, from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton. The always-present image of the flag serves as a backdrop against which these individual cultural events, personas, and technologies are experienced, recalled, and understood.” https://www.si.edu/tbma/work/video-flag
Pipilotti Rist, Open my Glade, Times Square, 2016. “For instance, he work of Pipilotti Rist is notable in the proportions that Video Art has taken in recent decades. In 2016, she was selected to exhibit her work in Times Square. The artwork consisted of 62 video screens, monumental in size, right in the middle of all the advertising screens in Times Square. On these 62 screens, looping over several days, numerous videos were shown. There, in the middle of one of the most emblematic squares of capitalism, she smashed her face against a window that was placed just a few centimeters from the camera lens. Her face deformed, her makeup spread out, she questioned, brutally, the gaze that the spectator has on feminine beauty.” https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/what-is-video-art/
Looking for Langston, 1988. Photograph: Bfi/Sankofa Film/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
Isaac Julien | Looking for Langston, 1989
“More than a tribute to the American poet Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Julien’s film is a powerful meditation on the history of black gay desire, the intersection of queer and black politics with art and activism, poetry and prejudice. The action plays out against a soundtrack mixing 1920s jazz and anachronistic 1980s disco.” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/17/warhol-steve-mcqueen-a-history-of-video-art-barbara-london
Lorna, 1984, interactive videodisk installation, infinite duration, video stills
“With Lorna, Lynn Hershman Leeson created the first art work that used laserdisk technology. Exploiting the interactive capabilities of the medium, the artist enables users to explore and intervene in the world of an agoraphobic woman named Lorna.” https://www.lynnhershman.com/project/interactivity/
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Books I Read in 2022.
The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri
Hiking Shenandoah National Park by Bert and Jane Gildart
Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans with Jeff Chu
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse (audiobook)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (audiobook)
Bible Gender Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships by James V. Brownson
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry selected by Paul Kingsnorth
Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way and Presence by Diana Butler Bass
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (audiobook)
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (audiobook)
She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh (audiobook)
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (audiobook)
God is Here: Reimagining the Divine by Toba Spitzer
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (audiobook)
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (audiobook)
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle (audiobook)
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery (audiobook)
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Columbine by Dave Cullen (audiobook)
Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things by Sophie Woodward
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg (audiobook)
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Reading 2023
5-January-2023: Tanizaki, Junichirō, The Maids (1963, Japan)
13-January-2023: Tevis, Walter, Mockingbird (1980, USA)
22-January-2023: Snyder, Michael, James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer (2022, USA)
29-January-2023: Pressburger, Emeric, The Glass Pearls (1966, England)
31-January-2023: Mac Orlan, Pierre, A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer (1951, France)
5-February-2023: Runciman, Steven, The First Crusade (Vol I: A History of the Crusades) (1951, England)
11-February-2023: Babitz, Eve, I Used to be Charming (1975-1997, USA)
15-February-2023: Indiana, Gary, Rent Boy (1994, USA)
26-February-2023: Zola, Émile, The Sin of Abbé Mouret (1875, France)
2-March-2023: Bennett, Alice, Alarm (Object Lessons), (2023, USA)
9-March-2023: Wyndham, John, The Kraken Wakes (1953. England)
17-March-2023: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, The Prone Gunman (1981, France)
17-March-2023: Shawn, Wallace, Night Thoughts: An Essay (2017, USA)
19-March-2023: Runciman, Steven, The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Vol II: A History of the Crusades) (1953, England)
26-March-2023: Carr, David, Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr (2020, USA)
5-April-2023: Manzoni, Alessandro, The Betrothed (1840, Italy)
10-April-2023: Childs, Craig, Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession (2010, USA)
16-April-2023: Butler. Octavia, Kindred (1979, USA)
22-April-2023: Liming, Sheila, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (2023, USA)
24-April-2023: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, Three to Kill (1976, France)
30-April-2023: Keefe, Patrick Radden, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021, USA)
7-May-2023: Le Carré, John, Agent Running in the Field (2019, England)
10-May-2023: Dederer, Claire, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (2023, USA)
13-May-2023: Mortimer, Penelope, Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1956, England)
26-May-2023: Morrison, Toni, Beloved (1987, USA)
30-May-2023: McCarthy, Cormac, The Passenger (2022, USA)
1-June-2023: Lewis, Herbert Clyde, Gentleman Overboard (1937, USA)
6-June-2023: Miéville, China, Embassytown (2011, England)
10-June-2023: McCarthy, Cormac, Stella Maris (2022, USA)
16-June-2023: Ambler, Eric, The Light of Day (1962, England)
23-June-2023: Ambler, Eric, Dirty Story (1967, England)
25-June-2023: Runciman, Steven, The Kingdom of Acre (Volume III, A History of the Crusades) (1954, England)
27-June-2023: Hartley, L.P., The Harness Room (1971, England)
4-July-2023: Motley, Willard, Knock on Any Door (1947, USA)
8-July-2023: Duras, Marguerite, The North China Lover (1991. France)
10-July-2023: Carr, J. L., A Month in the Country (1980, England)
14-July-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, Cape Cod (1865, USA)
18-July-2023: Modiano, Patrick, Missing Person (1978, France)
22-July-2023: Prime-Stevenson, Edward, Left to Themselves: The Ordeal of Philip and Gerald (1891, USA)
24-July-2023: Shakespeare, William, King Lear (1606, England)
6-August-2023: Whitehead, Colson, Crook Manifesto (2013, USA)
11-August-2023: Hampson, John, Last Night at the Greyhound (1931, England)
16-August-2023: Wyndham, John, The Midwich Cuckoos (1957, England)
19-August-2023: Ballard, J. G., The Drought (1965, England)
22-August-2023: Hines, Barry, A Kestrel for a Knave (1968, England)
31-August-2023: McPherson, William, Testing the Current (1984, USA)
10-September-2023: Pamuk, Orhan, Nights of Plague (2021, Turkey)
17-September-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, The Maine Woods (1864, USA)
20-September-2023: Thoreau, Henry David, A Plea for Captain John Brown (and other essays on abolition) (1859, USA)
24-September-2023: Kirino, Natsuo Real Life (2006, Japan)
30-September-2023: Renouard, Maël, Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet (2016, France)
7-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Midnight Bell (1929, England)
12-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Siege of Pleasure (1932, England)
15-October-2023: Hamilton, Patrick, The Plains of Cement (1934, England)
21-October-2023: Kayama, Shigeru, Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (1955, Japan)
25-October-2023: Malcolm, Janet, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory (2023, USA)
30-October-2023: Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969, USA)
5-November-2023: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Lolly Willowes (1926, England)
26-November-2023: Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Lancashire Witches (1848, England)
2-December-2023: Ginzburg, Carlo, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath (1989, Italy)
10-December-2023: Baum, Vicki, Grand Hotel (1929, Germany)
16-December-2023: Sinykin, Dan, Big Fiction: How Conglomerates Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (2023, USA)
24-December-2023: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, T.H. White: A Biography (1967, England)
29-December-2023: Undset, Sigrid, Olav Audunssøn, Vol 4: Winter (1927, Norway)
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for the book ask, 1, 10, and 11!!
1. book you’ve reread the most times?
Definitely The Raven Cycle series haha I've probably read it over a dozen times at this point, though I think I've read BLLB and TRK maybe two times less since they had not come out yet when I found the series.
I've also read the Harry Potter series easily 20 times and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the one I read the most out of all of them.
Honorable mentionings go to: Matilda by Roald Dahl, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Probably some others, but those are the ones that stick out the most in my mind right now. I love rereading books haha
10. do you have a guilty fav?
I don't really feel guilty about any books I read, to be honest. But I guess if I had to pick? The Flowers in the Attic series by V. C. Andrews
11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?
lol this is gonna be long...
Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens
Frida Kahlo by Elizabeth Carpenter
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women by Hallie Rubenhold
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight For Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from Black Death to the Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes
LITERALLY ANYTHING BY MARY ROACH.
That's more than I'm sure you asked for and more than anyone wanted lol but thank you!!!
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A first-hand characterization of what it is to live in rural small town America is riddled with shuttered factories, Dollar General stores, burgeoning disability claims, and heroin needles. Those who make up these populations within rural small-town America and exist within its circumstances are disparaged in significant ways, such as geographic isolation, higher rates of health risk behaviors, lower quality of healthcare, and lower quality of education. The opioid crisis can largely be defined as the ongoing public health crisis stemming from the rapid incline in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs. The crisis, which began in 1999, has affected low-income rural communities at a highly disproportionate rate when compared to other demographics and taken hundreds of thousands of lives.
Over the course of 1999 to 2020, overdose deaths from the opioid crisis took the form of three distinct waves. The first of these waves began in the 1990s with the increase in prescription opioid drugs such as natural semi-synthetic opioids and methadone. Rapid increases in overdose deaths involving heroin circa 2010 was the catalyst for the second wave. In 2013, the third wave began with significant increases in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl. Today, the market for fentanyl is ever-evolving, and the substance is commonly found in combination with heroin, counterfeit pills, and cocaine. Fentanyl is be an incredibly deadly substance, as just two miligrams can cause overdose or death.
There are numerous heart-felt and incredibly moving first-hand testimonials of those who have been affected. In a documentary composed by the Centers for Disease Control, a mother named Ann Marie testified to her experience with opioids and loss by way of her son’s addiction. She recounted, “It took him five days to get addicted. I’m not supposed to be the one to go get his suit and tie and pick which sneakers that I’m going to bury him in.” A fellow mother named Judy recounted her experiences as well. She remarked with vulnerability, “My son Steve did not want to die. He wanted to get well. He tried really hard to get well, but his prescription opioids killed him. We found a post-it note that he had written about his opioids.” The note said, "At first it was a lifeline. Now there is a noose around my neck.” Steve’s words are ultimately a very powerful encapsulation of the broader opioid crisis and the blurred line between white and black market drugs.
Despite its immense reach, this epidemic can be traced to a single name: Sackler. The nationwide controversy of the Sackler family, maker of the well-known drug OxyContin and founder of American pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, lends itself directly to the present-day consequences of the family’s marketing tactics and influence campaigns. Numerous institutions of higher education have benefitted from the Sackler name and fortune. In a sign of the times, many institutions are finally being questioned for their past and continued ties to controversial entities. Several of these institutions have made efforts to find solutions to end, or at least partially address, the epidemic at hand.
In spring 2018, Congress developed the Helping to End Addition Long-Term (HEAL) initiative and added an additional $500 million to the National Institutes of Health budget to invest in science to find solutions to the opioid crisis. The United States government has also enacted various strategies to restrict the flow of illegal opioids from abroad in previous years such as a $3.5 billion security and counternarcotics aid through the Merida Initiative. Efforts were also coodinated with China to suppress fenantyl production. Unforuntately, the Merida Initiative suffered several political and dipomatic setbacks in its final years, ending in 2021. There are currently three FDA-approved medications to treat opioid use disorder–buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. Each of these treatments has been demonstrated to be safe and effective in combination with other treatments such as counseling and psychosocial support. In April 2019, Harvard Medical School Office for External Education supported a two-day opioid education and awareness program at Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio. Tufts University made the decision to erase the Sackler name from all campus buildings and programs. In 2019, the university also stated that it would keep funds from the Sackler name, but continue to use them for their intended purposes, such as health science research.
As a greater systemic issue, the opioid crisis has been increasing in strength for upwards of thirty years. The opioid crisis represents a multi-system failure of the United States’ people. Care, treatment, and prevention are absolutely critical components to solving it.
Works Cited
“An Ambitious Research Plan to Help Solve the Opioid Crisis.” National Institutes of Health, 7 July 2020, nida.nih.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2018/06/ambitious-research-plan-to-help-solve-opioid-crisis#:~:text=Three%20medications%20are%20currently%20FDA,intranasal%20formulations%20to%20reverse%20overdose.“Ann Marie.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22 Sept. 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/rxawareness/stories/annmarie.html. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.
Hammer, Katie, and Randy Fox. “Targeting the Opioid Crisis.” Targeting the Opioid Crisis | Harvard Medical School, 15 May 2019, https://hms.harvard.edu/news/targeting-opioid-crisis. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.
Health, Cultivating. “Fentanyl Facts, Overdose Signs to Look for, and How You Can Help Save a Life.” Health, 11 Jan. 2023, health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultivating-health/fentanyl-overdose-facts-signs-and-how-you-can-help-save-a-life/2023/01#:~:text=Due%20to%20its%20potency%2C%20a,powerful%20and%20can%20be%20addictive.
“Opioid Misuse in Rural America.” USDA, https://www.usda.gov/topics/opioids#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20experiencing,greatest%20percentage%20increase%20in%20deaths. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.
“Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
June 2022, www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html.
Seltzer, Rick. “Tufts Will Remove Sackler Name from Medical Campus, Drawing Rebuke from Purdue Pharma's Owners.” Tufts Will Remove Sackler Name from Medical Campus, Drawing Rebuke from Purdue Pharma's Owners, 6 Dec. 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/06/tufts-will-remove-sackler-name-medical-campus-drawing-rebuke-purdue-pharmas-owners. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.
Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra. “Harvard Continues to Display the Sackler Family Name despite Calls for Removal.” Observer, Observer, 19 Sept. 2022, https://observer.com/2022/09/harvard-continues-to-display-the-sackler-family-name-despite-calls-for-removal/. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.Ukani, Alisha. “Recruiting for Economic Diversity.” Harvard Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017, https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/08/admissions-office-strategies-low-income. Accessed 26 Sept. 2022.
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Episode 165 - Favourite Reads of 2022
This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Favourite Fiction
For the podcast
Anna
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
Jam
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies
Matthew
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
Meghan
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Episode 164 - Military Fiction
Not for the podcast
Jam
Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy
Matthew
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Meghan
Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Anna
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
Favourite Non-Fiction
For the podcast
Matthew
Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley
Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction
Meghan
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space
Anna
Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner
Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism
Jam
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction
Not for the podcast
Meghan
Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes
Anna
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Jam
Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey
Matthew
X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor
Other Favourite Things of 2022
Anna
Tasting History with Max Miller
Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci
Jam
Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”
French tacos (Wikipedia)
Matthew
Unpacking
Meghan
Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian
Runner-Ups
Anna
Video Games
Crashlands
Wobbledogs
YouTube:
Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews)
Podcasts
American Hysteria
Maintenance Phase
You Are Good
Other (Audio)Books:
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Jam
Favourite classic:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Episode 151 - Classics
Favourite manga:
Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)
Favourite Album:
Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)
Working for the Knife (YouTube)
Favourite AAA video game:
Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia)
Favourite indie video game:
Wytchwood
Favourite Wordle spin-off:
Worldle
Matthew
Video game
Hyper Light Drifter
Manga
Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen
My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by Taylor Enge
lMonthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey
Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud
Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth
Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida
Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan
Graphic novels
Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
Books
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Meghan
Favourite new-to-me author:
Zviane
Favourite work of translation:
The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles
Podcast non-fiction runner up:
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder
Podcast fiction runner up:
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Non-fiction
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
Runner up graphic novels:
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
Taproot by Keezy Young
Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu
Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French)
L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man)
Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French)
Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew)
Radium Girls by Cy. (French)
Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French)
Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French)
Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French)
Links, Articles, Media, and Things
Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021
Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
ChatGPT (Wikipedia)
There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry!
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia)
Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap
24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele
Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes
Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills
The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun
Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps
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Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd we’ll be talking about Sports non-fiction!
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I am going to be catching up on fics and reblogging. I am sorely behind everyone's great writing. If there is something you think needs my attention, jump into my ask box. I want to get back into my routine of setting my Q up boosting/sharing.
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hi! Just wanted to ask what you’ve been reading lately? I love seeing your book recs! Also what are some of your favorite books ?
Hi :) I've read some disappointing stuff lately, so I decided to start two books from my to-read list that felt like safe bets—Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night and Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery. I'm enjoying both so far!
I've read interesting nonfiction this year—Empire of Pain, about the Sackler family; Erich Schwartzel's Red Carpet about the role of the movie business in cultural hegemony; and Laure Hillerin's biography of the Countess Greffulhe, who was a fascinating woman. She was the real-life model behind Proust's Duchess de Guermantes character, and a really influential figure in the arts & sciences in the early 1900s—she financed the first productions of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, frequented Rodin's studio, helped Marie Curie find the funds to start her Radium Institute... It was a good read. I also read a biography of Anne Perry by Peter Graham, which was so-so—the story of the murder is morbidly fascinating but the way it was told had too many trivial details and not enough depth.
Worst nonfiction books of the year so far were Niall Ferguson's Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe which didn't seem to have any point to make, and François-Guillaume Lorrain's Scarlett which was marketed as a fascinating new look into the making of Gone With the Wind but actually the author just watched his DVD's behind-the-scenes bonus content and diluted it into 300+ pages of rehashed anecdotes, it was so pointless. I found it on the "Vos libraires vous recommandent !" shelf and now I feel betrayed by that bookshop.
As for fiction, I've enjoyed Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying, it felt very dated in a fun way, everything about it felt intensely 1950s. Was very disappointed by Silvia Avallone's Acciaio, I'd heard good things about it but it was so joyless and meh. Álvaro Enrigue's Ahora me rindo y eso es todo was a bit disappointing in the second half, but the first half was good so I'll try other books of his. Pierre Lemaitre's Miroir de nos peines was fun in an expected way—I mean those who enjoyed the beginning of his Au revoir là-haut trilogy will enjoy this one too as it's more of the same. And I also had a good time reading Catherynne Valente's Radiance— similarly if you already like her writing style you'll probably enjoy this book. (I was listening to this as I read it and it fit really well with the floaty-nostalgic-unearthly atmosphere of the book, it's always nice to accidentally find a good book-soundtrack that enhances the experience! Now I can never listen to it while reading again as it's too intertwined with that story.)
And I really liked Madame de Staël's Delphine but I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone, it's very 18th century (though it's from 1802). If you enjoy idle noblewomen writing each other 20-page-long letters in gorgeously long-winded 18th-century prose about how the Viscount of Something glanced at them from the other end of a salon and nothing else happened and now they're having agonies then you'll love this book, it's 900 pages of this. I can't get enough of it personally, and I found it hilarious that these aristocrats had such low-stakes problems considering the story starts in 1790. They didn't notice the Revolution, they were too busy writing tormented letters about extramarital glances.
Some books I've added to my kindle recently: Virginia Feito's Mrs. March, Simon Schama's Landscape & Memory (someone I follow on GR described it as "monstrously bloated" while the NYT blurb diplomatically calls it "a work of enormous scope" which made me laugh), Seyhmus Dagtekin's To the Spring, by Night, Margarita Liberaki's Three Summers, Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Dawn Powell's A Time to Be Born.
This got long, sorry! You can have a look at my 5- and 4.5 star shelves on goodreads, for some of my favourite books of the past few years :)
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If you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?
Hi Marie! Thank you for the ask!
1. Read less. Write more.
2. Writer’s block isn’t permanent.
3. Most of the negative feedback you’ll receive online is just people being arseholes. Don’t let it get to you.
4. Don’t compare yourself to other writers. Maybe you can’t write like them. But they can’t write like you, either.
#ask#ask list#get to know your author#marie sackler#contrary to the gif#i don't look very beautiful right now#it's after midnight#and i am in my pyjamas#but thank you adam#and thank you marie
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You are absolutely grand.
Marie, my love, you spoil me with kindness. You are an absolute gift <3
^I love you this much
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We love you.
We also encourage more Oscar content.
I love you more 😭 (I am outlining another one as we speak, this is all your fault 🤦🏻♀️)
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