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Addicted To Audio

December 30, 2015

In the last few years I’ve become dependent on audiobooks to the point that now I’m often listening to novels more than I’m reading them. According to the New York Times, audiobook sales were up 38% in 2015, and more and more people are binge listening. This year on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I binge-listened to the twenty-three hour Book Four of The Barchester novels by Anthony Trollope. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Audible.com, Clare Danes, George Elliot, Jane Austen, Juliet Stevenson, Middlemarch, Persuasion, Reading, Stephen King, Trollope, William Faulkner

Whom to Tell: Snowden

December 18, 2015

Edward Snowden first reported his ethical concerns to his superiors and colleagues over a period of six months. He even showed them evidence of alleged unconstitutional wrongdoing. And he deliberately chose not to blow the whistle to Congress because he viewed it as part of the problem. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Booz Allen Hamilton, Congress, Edward Snowden, Glen Greenwald, NSA, PRISM, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Threat Operations Center

The Whistleblower’s Dilemma: Snowden

December 17, 2015

With a growing awareness of NSA wrongdoing eating at him like moral acid, Edward Snowden became a whistleblower-in-waiting. All he needed was to complete his understanding of what the NSA was doing and how it was doing it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: BAH, Booz Allen Hamilton, Honolulu, NSA, Snowden, whistleblower-in-waiting. security clearance

Karen Silkwood, The Whistleblower’s DIlemma

December 15, 2015

One dry, cold November night in 1974, Karen Gay Silkwood left a union meeting at the Hub Café in rural Crescent, Oklahoma, jumped into her white Honda Civic, and headed down Highway 74 toward Oklahoma City. It was 7:30 p.m., the last day of her life.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Atomic Energy Commission, FBI, Freedom of Information Act, Honda Civic, inventory report, Justice Department, Karen Silkwood, Kerr-McGree, Oklahoma City union meeting, plutonium pellets

Book Awards: The Best Reader Wins!

November 21, 2015

The winners of the National Book Awards were selected this week following an evening in which all the nominees participated in a reading hosted by New School.University.  Even though I have no idea whether or not the judges attended the readings, I couldn’t help noticing that the best readers — at least in poetry and fiction — ended up winning in their categories.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Adam Johnson, Books, Charles Baxter, fiction, National Book Awards, poetry, prose, reading aloud, Sharon Olds, Word Theater

The Middlemarch Millennial

November 5, 2015

Christopher Witte

I find Millennial bashing to be as fashionable a recreation these days as combinatory yoga-pilates. Everyone from Time Magazine to Aaron Sorkin to Michelle Obama has taken a healthy swing or two, and younger people are exercising a right to reciprocal ire. Yet take a step back and this intergenerational warfare, fought across the trenches of technology-swayed narcissism and entitlement, arguably resembles a more fundamental and timeless sort of conflict – the pitting of emergent youth against traditionalist elders. While a simple examination of a historical case (e.g. the criticism heaped upon the sixties counterculture generation) might be sufficient to evince this, it is again ample occasion to turn to our literary canon in order to widen our scope and defog our vision – this time through considering the famous work “Middlemarch” by George Eliot. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Books, classics, Dorothea Brooke, George Eliot, hipsters, literature, Middlemarch, millennials, Reading, youth, youth culture, YouTube

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