Dan Brown gets D.C. wrong, says Slate. (But isn’t this just another way of saying that it belongs with almost every other narrative, literary or televisual, ever concocted about the Diamond District?)
It’s Not the Spectacles and Pageantry…
Agent Scully, Author
“There is so much low self-esteem in girls, and so much self-hate that I keep reading about. My first idea for a book was something that would help to lift girls out of that place of negativity.” Actor Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel are writing a 300-plus page guide entitled We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere, slated for release in March 2017.
This Round Goes to eBooks
How to build and organize a digital library? Here's one way to do it.
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Writing-Dude-in-Nature Territory
“In Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett stomps all over writing-dude-in-nature territory with her poetic unraveling of Thoreau’s wilderness jaunt.” A. N. Devers on Bennett’s celebrated new collection.
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Joy & Wonder & Goshawks
"Joy and wonder. That’s at the heart of what I love about the natural world. If you’re receptive to it, it does something to human minds that nothing else can do." Electric Literature talks with Helen MacDonald about living with, and like, a goshawk. Pair with Madeleine Larue's Millions review of MacDonald's H is for Hawk.
Culture Shock
"When it comes to living in a democracy, Nato Thompson argues, nothing affects us more directly and more powerfully than culture. Culture suffuses the world we live in, from TV to music to advertising to sports. And all these things, Thompson writes in his new book, Culture as Weapon, 'influence our emotions, our actions, and our very understanding of ourselves as citizens.'"
Rise Up
"Our culture has focused so much attention on the most visible members of the Black Panthers that it has been easy to forget it was a nationwide organization -- an entity that needed to attract ordinary people who believed in something and were also willing to work for it." In the Times, Rembert Browne reviews two new books about the Black Power movement.