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Craig’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Craig’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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| A second reading (in this case after a gap of more than 30 years) has rarely resulted in as huge a change of perspective as did my return to Pynchon's "follow-up" to Gravity's Rainbow. I remember feeling deeply disappointed when I read it; it was onl ...more | |
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| Excellent and important contribution to the literature of conservatism in the 1960s and beyond. Lassiter argues convincingly that the established understanding of Nixon's "Southern Strategy" advanced and articulated by Kevin Phillips needs to be supp ...more | |
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| To the Moon and back shows some signs of being a first novel--some continuity issues and a few plot hiccups. But it immediately moves to the top of the list of Queer Cherokee astronaut novels (that's intended to get a smile, but it's also accurate). ...more | |
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 772 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
