I saw an excellent DuBois documentary (I think this one : [link] that was eye opening. I feel pretty firmly that I am a WEB DuBois kinda person (not me personally as I am in no way part of the talented 10th). I teach the Atlanta Compromise in relation to Invisible Man which always forces a reconsidering of Washington.
Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Mar 09, 2014 4:25:21 pm PDT #22154 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ginger - Mar 09, 2014 4:43:27 pm PDT #22155 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think Washington's approach has been unfairly simplified. Look at the difference between DuBois, born free in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk and Harvard with the support of his community, and Washington, born a slave in the South and working to uplift the poorest blacks in the South. Washington made himself the face of the nonthreatening Negro, while secretly funding challenges to Jim Crow laws. His goal was also equality, but he was a pragmatist.
lisah - Mar 09, 2014 4:58:16 pm PDT #22156 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.
I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?
Has anyone read Mikal Gilmore's brilliant Shot through the Heart?
Yes! I love that book! Another great one about Mormons is Jon Krakaur's Under the Banner of Heaven. We read it for book club in March of last year, our crime-themed year, and it came up in basically all of our discussions for the rest of the year.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2014 5:00:19 pm PDT #22157 of 28344
brillig
Oh, god, the Laffertys.
Atropa - Mar 09, 2014 5:02:55 pm PDT #22158 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
twirls through the thread in Victorian Goth formalwear
Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned. PLEASE let it be better than Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.
lisah - Mar 09, 2014 5:03:24 pm PDT #22159 of 28344
Punishingly Intricate
Yeah, it is messed up. But, fascinating.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2014 5:07:19 pm PDT #22160 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I saw an excellent DuBois documentary (I think this one : [link]) that was eye opening. I feel pretty firmly that I am a WEB DuBois kinda person
Historical sidenote: I had W.E.B. Dubois' old suitcase in my closet for a while.
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2014 5:13:53 pm PDT #22161 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned.
WHAT.
I am...cautiously intrigued.
sj - Mar 09, 2014 5:16:44 pm PDT #22162 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.
I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?
No, he didn't.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2014 5:19:40 pm PDT #22163 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am...cautiously intrigued.
EM's family were communists and were heavily involved with the Civil Rights movement from its foundation. Her dad was roommates with Paul Robeson at one time (in the forties?), and Robeson was the best man at his first wedding (before EM's mom).
Her father was the only white staff member (art director) on Freedomways, a lefty journal of black writing for all of the sixties and into the early seventies. Her parents not only attended the March on Washington, but EM was picked up and kissed as a three year old by MLK himself.
So, anyway, they got a hand-me-down suitcase from W.E.B. Dubois.