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What We Do Now » Melville House Books
Short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving forward, we can protect our values, our politics, and our country. Contributors: Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…
www.mhpbooks.com|Melville House Books

We’re heartbroken. We’re excited. We’re energized. We’re scared. We’re confident that books can help—and this one in particular.

What We Do Now features essays on activism from twenty-seven leading progressives, including Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, George Saunders, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, Cornell William Brooks, Dave Eggers, and Paul Krugman. It’s out on January 17th, just three days before Trump’s inauguration.

Pre-order it today. And get ready.

#what we do now#donald trump#activism#gloria steinem#elizabeth warren#ilhan omar#bernie sanders#cornell william brooks#paul krugman#george saunders#dave eggers#michael brune#rea carey#aclu#naacp#david cole#ilyse hogue#cristina jiminez#united we dream#campaign zero#m dove kent#george lakoff#john r. macarthur#harper's magainze#bill mckibben#nato thompson#trevor timm#creativetime#linda sarsour#arab american association
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High school teacher on leave after comparing Trump to Hitler » MobyLives
This is how it begins. Last week, Frank Navarro, a Holocaust scholar and a World Studies, Civics/Economics, and Special Education teacher at Mountain View High School (in Mountain View, California, that supposedly deep blue bastion of progressive liberalism, of world-changing…
www.mhpbooks.com|Taylor Sperry

A teacher made a historically accurate comparison of Donald Trump and Hitler—and then was forced to go on administrative leave.

Fuck.

#donald trump#trump#censorship#education#california#high school#hitler
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How to listen to music in a country you do not recognize » MobyLives
Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis opens Spirit of Eden, the band’s penultimate record from 1988, with the line, “Oh yeah, world’s turned upside down.” The lyric, sung in Hollis’s unmistakably sonorous voice (like a viola being bowed), confirms the band’s conscious…
www.mhpbooks.com|Chad Felix

Some notes (and a playlist!) toward listening to music in Trump’s America

#music#politics#trump#spirit of eden#talk talk#mark hollis#fennesz#brian eno#william basinksi#stars of the lid#ambient#drone#john cage#cage#steve reich
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Here’s an idea --- let’s NOT normalize Donald Trump » MobyLives
Yesterday I read a tweet from the New York Times, referring to possible Chief of Staff and definite racist Steve Bannon as a “conservative provocateur.” I mean, come on. Surely we can come up with a better word for someone…
www.mhpbooks.com|Julia Fleischaker

DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP

#trump#donald trump#media#not my president
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So: I’m in the dark, in mid-air. Like everyone else in America, tonight. The plane’s path is stitching together all those big central states. All those Trump states; the land we call “flyover country,” even though it’s most of the country. When I look down, I see nothing; no cities means no light. I can’t tell you how it feels, or looks, what the mythology of the land is, what the assumptions there are. I can’t give you a portrait, the way I might if I’d breathed the air, drank the water. It’s just a void, a black blank slate, for miles. It will stay that way until tomorrow, until those states, and all the others, write the history of the world.

Sady Doyle, on “flyover” country and the future of democracy

#sady doyle#trainwreck#the trainwreck files#2016 election#donald trump
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On sale today: These are the Names by Tommy Wieringa » MobyLives
In These Are the Names, on sale today, Dutch superstar Tommy Wieringa weaves together two narratives --- a saga of refugees clinging to life as they trudge across Eurasia, and the tale of Pontus Beg, a cop on the steppe investigating the case of a local rabbi who’s…
www.mhpbooks.com|Melville House

These are the Names, the “quiet masterpiece” of refugees and a small-town policeman by Tommy Wieringa, is out today. 

Read this excerpt. Go vote. Reward yourself by heading to the bookstore.

#these are the names#tommy wieringa#books#new releases#excerpt
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Machine built to judge books by their covers reveals pretty much nothing » MobyLives
Since time immemorial, jacket designers have lamented the failure of publishers and editors and marketing directors to understand the exquisite genius of their cover art --- and their consequent insistence that a design be rejiggered to look “more like a work…
www.mhpbooks.com|Taylor Sperry

This machine is not very good at judging books by their covers!

#machines#books#why#book covers#book design
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there were some librarians coming down along the road and these librarians that were coming down along the road met a nicens little house named Melville House » MobyLives
Reader, it had been a long and hard five months since we last met with the Librarians, that estimable gang of Good-protecting know-a-lot-ers and friendly faces. And so when the moment came again at last this past Friday, the House called…
www.mhpbooks.com|Chad Felix

When The Librarians Came To Melville House.

#librarians#libraries#librarian preview#book buzz#bookbuzz#melville house
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The ABA and Civic Economics update their
The American Booksellers Association and Civic Economics have issued an update to their “Amazon and Empty Storefronts” report from February, and it shows a problem getting worse, not better. As David Grogan at Bookselling This Week points out, the original report contradicted…
www.mhpbooks.com|Julia Fleischaker

AMAZON SUCKS THE LIFE OUT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

#american booksellers association#amazon and empty storefronts#amazon#bookstores#bookselling#buy local#aba
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A parthenon of banned books to rise from Nazi ashes in Kassel » MobyLives
In 1933, Aryan dudes and dudettes all across Germany were burning books in what they called an Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist (“Campaign Against the Un-German Spirit”). Fires went up in most major cities, including, on May 19th of that year, a big one at Friedrichsplatz Park in Kassel,…
www.mhpbooks.com|Ian Dreiblatt

It will feature more than 20,000 books.

#parthenon#kassel#books.#Marta Minujín#art
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T minus one day: A good time to watch Aldous Huxley predict the future in 1958 » MobyLives
You write in Enemies of Freedom specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns: “All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action…
www.mhpbooks.com|Melville House

In 1958, Aldous Huxley took some LSD, saw Donald Trump’s face and democracy’s tears.

#aldous huxley#2016 election#lsd#drugs#donald trump#democracy#trump
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Director of Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature on trial for distributing literature “with extremist content” » MobyLives
Natalia Sharina, the fifty-nine-year-old director of Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature, is currently facing trial for embezzlement and the dissemination of literature with “extremist content,” charges on which she was first arrested in October 2015. In court, the librarian was…
www.mhpbooks.com|Ian Dreiblatt

The Director of Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature is on trial for circulating books the library expunged in 2011.

#moscow#russia#ukraine#libraries#librarians#censorship#law
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