Daniel Friedman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Amanda Gorman is a terrible poet. If you went to a right-wing subreddit and asked the users to imagine an inaugural poem for Joe Biden written by a young black woman, they would probably make up something indistinguishable from “The Hill We Climb” as a joke. https://t.co/mmN4ntKpHK

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I’m going to try to tweet a bit about books I really like, so I am going to start with one of my all-time favorites: “Red Harvest” by Dashiell Hammett.

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@cxorlando It takes a lot of talent and care to write prose that the reader never notices. Bad writing draws attention to itself. For example, the problem with this infamous passage from Chuck Wendig’s widely-criticized “Star Wars: Aftermath” is not that it is plot-forward: https://t.co/rSBNYXAVeN

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This woman literally cowrote “How to be a (young) Antiracist” with Ibram Kendi, but she’s Jewish, so she’s a problematic colonizer. At least now she’ll get to find out who her real friends are. https://t.co/wvexXeO8GD

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@ThoreaulyAwake @BearRightScum @JakeAnbinder I think “Night” by Elie Wiesel is appropriate for high school, and “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt is a good read for juniors or seniors. “Schindler’s List” is appropriate for tenth or eleventh graders.

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@TrinaLeeWood @KathyVullis Sure, but none of that is on there either. They jettisoned almost everything from the 19th and early 20th century to make room for things like “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson.

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@wil_da_beast630 Ibram X. Kendi is the worst, and “The Hate U Give” is godawful propaganda. I think these books should be carried in libraries, but parents should absolutely object to “Stamped,” “How to be an Antiracist” or “The Hate U Give” being included on required reading lists.

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@xlorentzen Your Shirley Jackson prompt about “The Lottery” is fascinating, because it clearly has some kind of context about what the short story is about beyond what is in the prompt, but it still has no understanding of what the story is about.

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@MRicci7 Ben Crump is a lawyer who represents families of people killed by the police in lawsuits against municipalities. He has written a book called “Open Season,” claiming police are committing “legalized genocide.” This kind of rhetoric is likely causing violence.

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It is amazing that there are people who are trying to cancel Margaret Atwood while simultaneously complaining that their political opponents are the ones who want to turn the world into "The Handmaid's Tale."