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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15h

Tomorrow (October 9th) at 7:00 pm PDT, please join Skylight Books in welcoming @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, Police Against the Movement, in conversation with @elizabethkai.bsky.social.

Learn more about this free, in-person event here: buff.ly/dBngfAS

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Charlie vs Garret: Eoin O’Malley’s fresh take on the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland

New book gives surprising insights on the political battle between Haughey and FitzGerald

www.irishtimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Priest is going to walk from Pope’s childhood home in Chicago to Statue of Liberty to protest ICE www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMBC7kMB/

TikTok video by Miguel Puente

www.tiktok.com

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

The opening titles of WORKING GIRL (1988) still give me goosebumps 37 years later.

Mike Nichols' Staten Island Cinderella story is on TCM tonight at 12:45am ET, so grab a disco nap and watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nP... #FilmSky #TCMParty

Working Girl (1988) - Opening Credits

YouTube video by 4K Archivist

www.youtube.com

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 1d

I finally remembered the best one - PG Wodehouse learning of Jack Kerouac's recent death during a 1969 interview with the Paris Review and having a perfectly Bertie Wooster-ish reaction: 'those chaps sure do go quickly, don't they'

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 1d

Remember theses so well. I was a paperboy when I read the 1st couple, circa 1982 - 1983, maybe?

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Andrew Monge @muchadoaboutnil.bsky.social · 1d

The #BookMail continues, and this is a rarity for me: a series of books I’ve already read. I was a huge fan of the Hitchhiker series as a kid, and played the hell out of the C64 game. Looking forward to a revisit, all these years later.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 1d

The 2nd Amendment puritan market, for sure.

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn’t sleep, so gave in & arose to spend ages at the Simenon shelf
Looking for a Maigret I hadn’t read yet. (Soothing. Restful, even) Eventually I found ‘Maigret & The Dead Girll’ & stretched out on the recliner under a lamp. Penguin 2017 translation by Howard Curtis of the 1954 novel.

‘Maigret & The Dead Girl’ photo cover shows a detail of a woman in a blue dress walking toward a set of glass doors. (Also a pour over coffee in cup & carafe.)

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

Majorly late to the wake, but read in the new bio of his fellow Vietnam veteran, Tim O’Brien, that national Book Award winner Larry Heinemann was dead. So reading this 1986 Penguin Contemporary Fiction copy of his debut that I picked up
one night in NYC before going to ‘The Half Pint’ on West 3rd

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

With you on Brian Garfield’s ‘Death Wish’ books. Much more going on there.

‘Death Sentence’ UK Pan paperback by Brian Garfield

‘Death Wish’ UK Coronet paperback Charles Bronson film tie in edition by Brian Garfield.

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Jack Badelaire @jbadelaire.bsky.social · 2d

Conservative ideology is just such a fucking grift. The author (I'm not naming or linking to any of this stuff) has just been churning out right-wing jerkoff fantasies for ten years now and yet when a leftist so much as farts too loudly they're accused of being a dangerous violent radical leftist. 🙄

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Jack Badelaire @jbadelaire.bsky.social · 2d

I've been burning through the early Able Team books (currently on the psychotic ARMY OF DEVILS) and even the folks at Gold Eagle in 1983 saw that undocumented immigrants were just hardworking people trying to find a better life for their families. Gadgets and Pol are practically "woke leftists"!

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Jack Badelaire @jbadelaire.bsky.social · 2d

Vigilante fiction back in the day (excluding Death Wish, which was really more complicated than people think) had ACTUAL villains. Mafiosi, drug lords, serial killers, terrorists, like actual violent diabolical evil scumbags. Not this ephemeral "radical left agitators" bullshit. Embarrassing.

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

Except maybe this one…featuring a cartoonishly villainous rendition of the Black Liberation Army. ‘Raker’ by Don Scott.

Front cover of Raker. Featuring shootout between Aryan looking Raker and Assata Shakur stand in in front of ‘Kill The Pigs’ graffitied wall and red white and blue shields.

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Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I know, right??

Don Pendleton thinks black people have been treated like crap!

Mike Newton thinks women should have full autonomy!

Charlie McDade believes gay people aren't devil worshippers!

Libs, every one of them!

Hell, perhaps even Warren Murphy had beliefs that pushed him center-of-right?

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Happy heavenly birthday to Black American voting, civil rights leader, women's rights activist, and community organizer, Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977

❝When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.❞‬

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Stevie Rae Williams🍷🐈‍⬛ @stevie1666.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty obvious really.. “Do you agree to abide by the laws of this country?”
“No.”
“No gun for you.”

Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

Dear America
Fun fact: In Australia, if you're being a #sovereigncitizen idiot, we take your guns off you! You've proved that you're a dangerous narcissistic moron. (Responsible gun owners dobbed you in!) No guns for you! No mass shooting. Problem solved. #auspol #USPolitics #GunControlNow

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

Ping @hark87podcast.bsky.social . 3 cheers for ‘Fuzz’ courtesy of David Foster Wallace & @caseystegman.com

2 Pan UK paperback editions of ‘Fuzz’ by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter)
1 is the film tie in edition featuring movie illustrated poster showing the cast included Raquel Welch in bikini &
Burt Reynolds in nuns habit & Yul Brunner as the Deaf Man.
2 is a gold band Pan edition showing a snub nosed .38 revolver in the snow.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

1. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

2. The Stand, by Stephen King

3. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris

4. The Thin Red Line, by James Jones

5. Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong

6. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris

7. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

8. Fuzz, by Ed McBain

9. Alligator, by Shelley Katz

10. The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

Remember when David Foster Wallace named his ten favorite books and everyone assumed he was joking because they were mostly genre fiction?

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d

10/6/50: The Killer that Stalked New York
#filmnoir is a poor man's Panic in the Streets, OTOH it has great NYC location work, and Evelyn Keyes; DP Joseph Biroc had a very fine career
More:
@tcmtv.bsky.social: www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/...
Crowther, unimpressed: www.nytimes.com/1951/01/05/a...

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 2d

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals