Brooke Harrington Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Brooke Harrington

A pivotal moment captured on film: The day 14-yr-old me met Donald Johanson, the anthropologist who discovered the skeleton of Lucy & showed human ancestors walked upright 3M+ yrs ago. Hearing him talk in my HS library made me want to be a social scientist.https://t.co/DJpa5idrUC https://t.co/5nmSCR3VDL

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@mosenkis The casual exclusion of the millions of immune-compromised Americans from policy consideration is blood-chilling. The outright contempt I've seen, particularly toward immune-compromised children, reminds me of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" in its cruel savagery.

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@MarginalCall @JuliaDavisNews I'm imagining Putin has some kind of Jules Verne "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" fantasy submarine he can use to make a Bond villain escape under the Arctic Sea ice...or if he's at his Black Sea dacha, he'll zip down the Bosphorus, book it for the Straits of Gibraltar & be gone. https://t.co/hoK9lcksAz

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@helaineolen As foretold in the prophecy that is Gary @Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story." I'm not even kidding. It's the most astoundingly prescient novel I've ever read.

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@MikePerryavatar Yes. What GOP politicians & voters share, across class, religion, gender, race & age is a distinctive value system prioritizing dominance, hierarchy& might-makes-right above all. German philosopher Theodor Adorno called it the "authoritarian personality." https://t.co/X9iXLhrRLa

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@katie_prout Anything by @SashaHemon, but his writing on Chicago is sublime. His mastery of English as a 3rd (4th?) language reminds me of Jospeh Conrad's. Also, the stories of Stuart Dybek, which are like prose poems about Chicago. https://t.co/3U3N3yeHSz

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@drfrankdrebin @KenDilanianNBC Patriots believe the rule of law should apply impartially to all. Partisans don't. It's a shame you've chosen partisanship: the Framers feared people like you. I refer you in particular to #10 of the Federalist Papers, written by James Madison. https://t.co/gn6Dyty4z6

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@archvillainfilm Yeah, translation is the make-or-break thing if you're not reading in the original language. Another thing we had to read in HS was a dusty old translation of Dante's "Inferno." Yawn. But the 1995 trans by Pinsky (fmr jazz saxophonist!) was so intense it gave me nightmares. https://t.co/nBvw4CMomA

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@magskinbag Just watched a pre-Code film called "Design for Living" (1932), and it's darned near perfection: directed by Ernst Lubitsch, scripted by Ben Hecht from the stage play by Noel Coward, and starring Cooper, Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins in the most charming paean to polyamory. https://t.co/QYqS8xSRPF

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@ratemyskyperoom Thanks so much! The thick blue volume to the right of the screen is a compact Oxford English Dictionary, while the suite of red-spined books to the left of the screen are the complete works of Leo Tolstoy, bound in red leather, 1902 edition. I love my books so much!

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