![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, I had just suffered a head-on collision with the music industry, after a long period of post-teen crisis sparked by a series of family bereavements. Reading these phrases back now, well over a decade later, I’m slightly embarrassed by the wording, but not at all by the sentiment. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving such eloquent expression to pretty much everything that needed to be said, and for providing a reason to hope, when I for one was just about ready to despair. I read your book Capitalist Realism last week, and it felt like coming up for air after a long time spent underwater. ‘Dear Mark,’ began an email of January 2010 to a man I had never met: ![]()
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![]() ![]() You can listen to our entire conversation in a special edition of my Recode Media podcast the following interview has been excerpted from that conversation: Peter Kafka But Vance, whose portrait of Musk was a generally admiring one, says he thinks Musk has changed in recent years, and not necessarily for the better. In Vance’s telling, you can see a lot of the elements of the Musk on display today: ambitious, stubborn, and willing to make bets that seem like terrible ideas to any normal human. To find out, I asked a man who’s spent years paying close attention to Musk: Ashlee Vance, the veteran Bloomberg reporter who talked to Musk and hundreds of people in his orbit for his 2015 book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. So what’s different about Twitter than the rest of Musk’s history as a businessman - or is there any difference at all? ![]() ![]() But here it seems like he has no idea what he was doing, starting with his on-off-on approach to buying the thing for $44 billion in the first place. The chaos is also, quite frankly, confusing: No matter what you want to say about Musk, he’s been successful multiple times in his career. But even if you thought the world’s richest man and Twitter’s most high-profile user would stumble once he owned his favorite messaging service, the scale of the chaos seems staggering. It was easy to predict that Elon Musk’s first few weeks as Twitter’s owner would be a mess. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. She received a BA in English literature from George Washington University and an MA in humanities from St. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twenty-four years old. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, which she read in ninth grade. Natalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a way of healing his own heart too." In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance's keen eyes and weary heart that readers travel along on a journey of discovery and sorrow. "There was little noticeable, little remarkable about Edward Chance, saving perhaps that he had once shot and killed a man.His craft, medicine, was more than a business with him, more than a professional skill. ![]() As with his Gor series, his main body of work, Norman displays both philosophical reaction and an affinity with incorporating historical events with the actions of fictional characters. Ghost Dance is John Norman's 1970 historical fiction novel wherein a Sioux man and his tradition comes in conflict with a white woman and her civilization as the Wounded Knee Massacre approaches. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best. ![]() Business Adventures’ insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical details. Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. Business Adventures set an example of how an iconic company is defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened. Choosing the right people to lead and implement the company’s objectives is still the key to good governance. For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. ![]() This book poses as a great reminder that the rules for running a strong business and creating value hasn't changed. Up to this day, it has remained a favorite by many. The Business Adventures is a 1969 collection of New Yorker articles by John Brooks that illustrate the formation of the modern American corporation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton.122 Breathe by Imani Perry - The Stacks Book Club (Kiese Laymon)” (The Stacks) Congratulations, The Best is Over! by R.Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung (audiobook).All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (audiobook).Memorial by Bryan Washington (audiobook).The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway.We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian.To Save the Children of Korea by Arissa H.The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea.The Search for God and Guinness by Stephen Mansfield.The Stacks review of A Living Remedy (Instagram). ![]() “ The Short Stacks 6: Nicole Chung//All You Can Ever Know” (The Stacks).46 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung - The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa McGrady)” (The Stacks) ![]() ![]() ![]() I kind of got my answer to the age old question as to why the Italians are so refined in their culture but also are so Mesozoic in some of their ways. Been having awful rereads recently.I was most interested in England, France, Ireland, Italy and the Middle East mainly. By the way The Way of Kings is that book that is perfect in each of its page. I hurried my way through it, but if it worked for The Way of Kings, it ought to be good enough for any chunky book. The words in it are meant to be absorbed over a longer time than it took me. LoTR doesn't count because it is not a genuinely single work.Back to The Age of Faith. For you see, this book was enormous, both in its physicality and its scope.There is only one book above 1000 pages of my knowledge that has FUN stamped all over it in each page, and that book, is not LoTR. This means that I blitzed my way through this book. I began reading this book in January the 10th 0f 2021 and finished reading it on the 13th of April of the same year. ![]() ![]() ![]() I ducked away from the masked men who were spraying the gutters and feeding their hose through the grating of gully after gully. I’d have preferred to cycle all the way to the hospital, and it would have brought me there in half the time the tram took, but Matron wouldn’t hear of her nurses turning up in a sweat.Įmerging onto the street, I nearly walked into a disinfection cart. How would I replace it when its mechanism rusted up?) I let down the side tapes of my skirt and took my rain-soaked bag out of the basket. I left my cycle in the usual alley and clipped the combination lock onto the back wheel. I pedalled faster, past a motor car creeping along to eke out its petrol. A boy in a man’s coat shouted something rude at me. A waft of dung and blood as I passed a lane where livestock were waiting. My short green cape kept off the worst, but my coat sleeves were soon wet through. I cycled through reeking Dublin streets that were slick with rain. Still hours of dark to go when I left the house that morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation. This ecclesial tradition is often disregarded or viewed with suspicion by much of the wider church and academy, but it has something vital to say. A key element in the fight for hope, he discovered, has long been the practice of Bible reading and interpretation that comes out of traditional Black churches. Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. ![]() ![]() In 1926, he published a precursor to the book, a collection of poems titled The Crisis: From Hermann Hesse's Diary. Hesse began writing Steppenwolf in Basel, and finished it in Zürich. The resulting feeling of isolation and inability to make lasting contact with the outside world led to increasing despair and the return of Hesse's suicidal thoughts. After a short trip to Germany with Wenger, Hesse stopped seeing her almost completely. Upon his return, he rented a separate apartment, adding to his isolation. After several weeks, however, he left Basel, only returning near the end of the year. In 1924, Hermann Hesse married singer Ruth Wenger. Steppenwolf was wildly popular and has been a perpetual success across the decades, but Hesse later asserted that the book was largely misunderstood. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s. ![]() The novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. ![]() Steppenwolf (originally Der Steppenwolf) is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. ![]() |