This Thursday, author Claire Dederer will talk about her bestseller 'Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma' with book critic and Georgetown University professor Maureen Corrigan! Join us at 6:00PM in the Arrupe Multipurpose Room, or via Zoom: bit.ly/Claire-Dederer…

One week from today, author Claire Dederer will talk about her bestseller 'Monsters' with book critic and Georgetown English Department professor Maureen Corrigan! Join us at 6PM in the Arrupe Multipurpose Room, or via Zoom: bit.ly/Claire-Dederer…

Can you handle the glamour of public media? 😂

This is so basic. You don't fire 15 people and kill the website they worked for. As a member I deeply object to how WAMU 88.5 and American University are handling this. You need to do better, for them and for us, the public. DCIst matters.

It is imperative that Sylvia M. Burwell, Seth Grossman, Erika Pulley-Hayes, and Michael Tribble #UnlockDCist . It’s a matter of democracy.

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I have WAMU on much of the day. I donate, well above the minimum, monthly. What is so damn hard about doing basic DC news and running the most listened to channel in the nation’s capital? These folks work so hard. We need WAMU.

Yup. This is the history Americans should know—the invented tradition of the Lost Cause via retroactive romanticizing of the confederacy to thwart subsequent movements for black freedom and justice.

With the holidays upon us, you may be hunting for gifts for book lovers in your life. Jeffrey Brown spoke with two critics to help narrow down the list.
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This year's 10 best books list is an affirmation of the pleasures of reading widely and freely. Maureen Corrigan npr.org/2023/12/06/121…

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Every author has to have one...the no-show book talk. It's a bummer.

'It's futile to predict where a great writer's boundless imagination will take us and, as ABSOLUTION affirms, McDermott is a great writer.' Fresh Air

ABSOLUTION is out now! npr.org/2023/10/30/120…

Hell yeah. Because of UAW, electric vehicles will be built by Union workers!!!

This is a huge and historic win 💪💪

'Trump did not go to Michigan to support striking workers at all,' Adam Serwer 🍝 writes. 'He did what cheap rich guys do every day: He told people who work for a living to be afraid of losing what little they have instead of trying to get what they deserve.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

When the details weren’t set, I think the framing was understandable, but now that we know he’s basically doing an *anti* union event at the invitation of management, pretty important everyone reporting on it be clear about that.

Next Diane Rehm: On My Mind book club meeting is tomorrow @ 1p.m. ET, a discussion of #Trust by Hernan Diaz with Stacey Vanek Smith, Maureen Corrigan & Gilbert Cruz wamu.org/event/diane-re…

This is insane. Hey mainstream media: Trump is visiting a *non union* shop! That’s the point! He’s not even doing a version of the “I was union president once myself” shtick that Reagan did. This is even lazier than that—he’s just bs’ing once again. Don’t fall for it.

Ok, total props to Biden—he didn’t just speechify, he is walking damn line. In solidarity, Scranton Joe—we know that’s partly a shtick, but you earned it today!

“I was going over a list of books that are banned in Tennessee [schools] and… the list was really staggering,” says novelist Ann Patchett. “Yet at the same time, we’re not doing anything to keep our children safe from guns… It’s ludicrous and an embarrassment… It’s a crime.”

Essential analysis/summation of the neo UAW moment in US labor militancy and its articulation well beyond the autoworkers picket lines by gabrielwinant. Note, eg, the new economy struggle at ⁦WVU Mountaineers⁩ on hallowed ground of the old struggle. nybooks.com/online/2023/09…