![]() ![]() ![]() In the American Book Award-winning We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer shows that this is the latest in a series of recent racial flash points, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. The Washington Post NOW IN PAPERBACK The nationally renowned racial justice advocate's illumination of the ongoing persecution of a range of American minorities In the lead-up to the recent presidential election, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, surveillance against mosques, and a database for all Muslims living in the country, tapping into anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria to a degree little seen since the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience." "Powerful.Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. ![]()
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![]() The singer-songwriter is impressively adept at keeping things fresh, whether it’s plucking out songs from the back catalog for the band’s live shows or writing a concept album about Dungeons and Dragons. Yet Darnielle has never run out of steam. His unique talent for writing songs that conjure visceral imagery and spin intimate yarns has earned the band its reputation: highly literate, empathetic, and engrossing. Darnielle has been performing under the moniker for longer than I’ve been alive. That won’t surprise anyone that’s listened to a Mountain Goats album-of which there are literally dozens, including live recordings, EPs, and demos. He’s also someone you can quickly connect with. He’s also deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking. He’s as generous a listener as he is an engaging speaker. John Darnielle is easy to talk to, for one. (He’s got a Baby Bowser tat on his shoulder, FYI.) But my sprawling conversation with the Mountain Goats frontman, which ran the gamut from creative practices and vintage novels to the Adult Swim cartoon Morel Orel, retiring songs from the setlist and Nintendo tattoos, was all the better for it. ![]() One does not simply “chat” with John Darnielle. ![]() ![]() ![]() She stands out as a sleuth by being a complete amateur, sometimes consulted but more often butting in, and not “hired” for money until her last mystery. ![]() I would never accuse Agatha Christie of being disingenuous, but something about her statement above seems – let’s call it “playful.” Even though she developed her spinster sleuth differently from Poirot or even Tommy and Tuppence, one can’t help but think that Miss Marple always mattered to Christie. 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I just finished rereading The Silence of the Lambs, one of my all-time favorites, and wrote a few things–not a review exactly–that I guess I’ll go ahead and post here.Īfter two or three years, without a memory like Hannibal’s, I had forgotten some of the details and nuances that make Silence of the Lambs such a masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() Low-effort book requests will be removed. Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub.“What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. 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