Janet Malcolm is fun to read because generally everything she writes is a critique of something culturally accepted AND a critique of her own practices as a journalist. Janet “meta” Malcolm. I’m reading the new…
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America, I forgive you…
“Benediction” Pale brown Moses went down to Egypt landTo let somebody’s people go.Keep him out of Florida, no UN there:The poor governor is all alone,With six hundred thousand illiterates.America, I forgive you…I forgive youNailing black…
Good Listening for Afternoon Dog Walks: Interchange Recommendations
A friend (flesh and blood, not Facebook) told me she’d listened to the recent Interchange shows on The Tempest and on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, really liked them, and wanted recommendations for shows in…
It Spiralizes – Interchange Echoes
When I “make” an Interchange program I create analogizing echoes inside and outside of the show. An example. The last show with author Maggie Doherty was about her book The Equivalents. During the Interview Doherty…
Just what you need in a quarantine: Nada.
AUDIO LINK: “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” For your edification and pleasure, I hope. Here is an audio recording of Ernest Hemingway’s 1933 story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” Papa’s “existentialist” perspective is nowhere better on display…
Interchange – United Slaughterhouse of America: Josh Specht on the Cattle-Beef Complex
AUDIO LINKIn Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New York. He shows how the enduring…
Interchange – Roll Jim Crow: The Racial Project of the American Tobacco Company
AUDIO LINK Our opening song is “Lucky Day.” This is Judy Garland’s version from the London sessions of 1960. The first performance of the song was by Harry Richman in a 1926 Broadway revue. “Lucky…
Interchange – Planetary Factory: Jasper Bernes on Logistics and the Violence of Market Competition
AUDIO LINK: Planetary Factory Our conversation with Jasper Bernes, recorded in May of last year, might be called a delayed Part II or even Part III as it features a previous guest extending the parameters…
“The Planter” and Poor Whites – Habituated to Harm
The photo that illustrates this post is of a lynching in Excelsior Springs, Missouri in 1925, ten years before Du Bois’ published Black Reconstruction in America. I think it’s important to see these pictures of…
Reading Black Reconstruction: The True System
Today’s walk lasted approximately 40 minutes so I could listen to all of Chapter 2 of Black Reconstruction in America, “The White Worker.” What follows is just where my mind took me upon contemplation. Property…