Michael Brendan Dougherty Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@JacobSivogah It's really noticeable to me- a guy who is suddenly interested in scratching the itch again, after mostly putting my guitars down 18 years ago. It used to be all about "How is Jack White getting that sound?" Now the prevailing "How do I make it more shimmery like Hillsong?"

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Captures a lot of what I found so haunting at the end of The German War by Nicholas Stargardt, including the pervasive dread that the German people together with Hitler brought this upon themselves and understood they deserved worse.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@Coolapple28 He could lose more than just those Brexit States. He needs a message for the Trump voter in Virginia and North Carolina as much as Michigan and Pennsylvania, and it can't be "Become Florida"

Michael Brendan Dougherty

The credible threat of violence can erect a state, re-order constitutions are maintain a Union. I look at Charles Townshend’s authoritative history The Partition, Ireland Divided 1885-1925. https://t.co/2f2POwJvlo

Michael Brendan Dougherty

My favorite prose from the last few years is the devastating concluding image at the end of Peter Hitchens’ The Phoney Victory. “Prince of Wales still lies, her huge 44,000-ton bulk turned upside down by the violence of the enemy, nearly 40 fathoms deep off the Malaysian coast.… https://t.co/MJ1h8hyvlg

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@Michalis_Vlahos Ever read Gustave de Beaumont on Ireland? He traveled Ireland with Tocqueville. A modern day Shinner would have trouble expressing as much disdain for the Anglo-Irish aristocracy as de Beaumont did.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@SteveSkojec @JosephSciambra @jdflynn Indeed. And you can find very congenial unbelievers like Sam Harris arguing in the End of Faith that it is also legitimate to kill people for things they merely believe. No God needed!

Michael Brendan Dougherty

@A65451985 For a single book, I really like Thomas Bartlett. Ireland a History. Very readable.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Peter Kreeft’s Ecumenical Jihad re-emerges after a long war-on-terror slumber. https://t.co/jUoXea4kYV

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Someone needs to write a big profile on former lawyer turned Iowa Writer's prodigy Nam Le, whose short story collection The Boat set the literary world on fire 15 years ago. He reportedly went to work on a novel, but seems to have been diverted into poker just to make a living.