Hollis Robbins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Hollis Robbins

Enjoying Philippe Sands's "The Ratline" (2021) and am reminded that anti-communism was quite effective at canceling & stifling.

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As if on cue: days after mentioning Steven L Peck's "A Short Stay in Hell" on the @gfaitheffort podcast with @AriLamm, who walks into my office but @SciHoroscope himself, with @CristovaoTLuiz, who recommended the (excellent) novella in the first place! https://t.co/QIF3ILkFeV

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Happy to see my book "Forms of Contention" here alongside William Whyte's "The Organization Man" (1950). My book & Whyte's are both about formal structure & the thrill of disruption. Thank you @HenryEOliver https://t.co/DyiYiRC7nW

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Next on my reading list is @bruceholsinger's "The Displacements" because climate fiction isn't always sci fi -- or rather even when it is, it is about humans. https://t.co/OwHS6KwjZ6

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Was a pleasure introducing @azarnafisi at the @TannerHumCenter #BannedBooksWeek conversation with Jeremy Rosen on Nafisi's new book, "Read Dangerously: the Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times." Here joined by @jonfreadom from @PENamerica https://t.co/VScQgyGeBM

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On this #BastilleDay read *Tale of Two Cities* (1859) if you haven't -- it's really a great novel for pondering the best of times, the worst of times, and the horrors of imprisonment. #Dickens

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ChatGPT's real success is making humans laugh. It does this best when it has no idea why it is funny. I'm guessing Henri Bergson's "Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" (1900) is not in its dataset but it is the go-to text on language pratfalls.

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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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@elidourado Kuang's Babel? Yes reading it now love it.

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@michellehuang42 After nearly two centuries William Wordsworth's "The Prelude" has been successfully replicated (though not in iambic pentameter).

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