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recent bookmarks from jerrykingHow to read fiction to build a startup2024-03-21T15:31:30+00:00
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/16/the-best-fiction-for-building-a-startup/
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]]>authors books fiction howto Neal_Stephenson Paul_Graham reading start_ups writers Charlie_Munger Kai-Fu_Lee Richard_Feynman think_differently Virginia_Heffernan William_Gibsonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9d49f4ab5f58/Charles V. Hamilton2024-02-20T18:59:47+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1CpAQTmWpFvWiefo7yBVWh0etFgzdXmnMRzqXxfE34/edit
jerrykingobituaries African-Americans authors behind-the-scenes Black_Power books coming_together-closing_ranks Daniel_Moynihan Democrats institutional_racism PhDs political_organizing political_science scholars self-interest Stokely_Carmichael Tuskegee uChicago writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a5ddecc93123/Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61 - The Globe and Mail2023-12-14T05:38:43+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-andre-braugher-emmy-winning-actor-who-starred-in-homicide-and-brooklyn/
jerryking>David Simon<<, who would go on to create “The Wire.”
He would win his first career Emmy for the role, taking the trophy for lead actor in a drama series in 1998.
He would win his second for lead actor in a miniseries or movie for the 2006 limited series “Thief” on FX. Braugher would be nominated for 11 Emmys overall.
Years later he would play a very different kind of cop on a very different kind of show, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” It would run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021 on Fox and NBC.
Though he’d dipped his toe into comedy in the TNT dramedy “Men of a Certain Age,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” still represented a major shift for Braugher, who was known for acting in dark and heavy dramas.
“I just felt as though it was an opportunity to do something strikingly different from the rest of my career,” Braugher told the AP. “I like it because it just simply opens up my mind and forces me to think in a different way. So I think I’ve become much more sort of supple as an actor, and more open to the incredible number of possibilities of how to play a scene.”
He would be nominated for four Emmys during the run.
He was married for more than 30 years to his “Homicide” co-star Ami Brabson. They had three sons.
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Very sad. Loved him in Brooklyn 99. RIP, Andre.
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One of the greatest scenes in my television watching history was an ending scene in Homicide: Life On The Street when he put on his uniform to stand at attention and salute the passing funeral procession of a fellow policeman that he’d had trouble getting along with.
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Homicide was ground-breaking TV, the writing was brilliant. Love to find it on a streaming service someday.
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A giant of talent. What a loss.
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I never met Andre Braugher, but he made my life better with his talent. I remember him in >>Glory<<, and most especially in >>Homicide<<. Thank you Andre Braugher. Rest in peace.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++]]>'90s actors Andre_Braugher Baltimore criminal_justice_system David_Simon ensemble_acting nostalgia obituaries police_procedural producers television writers Glory Homicidehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c45a525f7206/When ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride2023-05-18T17:01:05+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/television/homicide-life-on-the-street.html
jerryking>Homicide: Life on the Street<<,” and it was based on a book by >>David Simon<<, then a Baltimore Sun reporter who had spent a year tagging along with the police department’s homicide squad. Post-Super Bowl premiere notwithstanding, “Homicide” was never a ratings success, but it stayed on the air for seven seasons, winning four Emmys and three Peabody Awards. The show was prickly, funny, morally forceful, endlessly discursive and filled with a murderers’ row of actors, including the future stars Andre Braugher (who won an Emmy for his performance as Frank Pembleton), Melissa Leo and Giancarlo Esposito, along with veterans like Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto and Richard Belzer, known primarily then as a stand-up comedian.
]]>'90s actors Baltimore criminal_justice_system ensemble_acting nostalgia police_procedural producers television writers anniversaries Andre_Braugher David_Simon Homicidehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0015e96df17d/“Manchild in the Promised Land” Still Depicts Our America2023-04-14T06:07:06+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/manchild-in-a-promised-land-still-depicts-our-america?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_twitter
jerryking>novel<<, but was always understood to be a memoir of Brown’s youth, a street-level portrait of post->>Great Migration<< Harlem. Brown’s family came to New York from rural South Carolina, where his parents had been sharecroppers. They were, like many others they met in Harlem, ambitious people who’d left the Jim Crow South for the promise of upward mobility, only to encounter ruinous poverty and segregated isolation up North..........When Brown died, in 2002, the Times reported that the book was still selling more than thirty thousand copies a year, and was on high-school and college syllabi across the country.
In the twenty years since then, the book has become no less relevant, but it seems, anecdotally, to have become less visible. .......In Brown’s later years, people would ask him about changes he’d seen, across his life, in communities like Harlem. By the turn of the century, gentrification had made parts of Harlem almost unrecognizably different from the neighborhood that he grew up in. But other sections remained destitute, and it was those places Brown kept in mind when he answered the question. He said that, across American cities, poor young men had much easier access to guns than he and his friends had, and were far more ready to use them.
]]>'40s '50s African-Americans books coming-of-age Harlem lawyers New_York_City nostalgia writers bestsellers Great_Migration memoirs novels revisitationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:54e68b006cab/Opinion: Scarborough made me who I am today. I love it. Why don’t you?2023-04-02T21:01:25+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-scarborough-made-me-who-i-am-today-i-love-it-why-dont-you/
jerryking>The neighbourhood I grew up in was diverse and full of working-class pride, but all that its critics could see was crime and isolation<<
Omer Aziz is the author of Brown Boy: A Memoir.
]]>arrival_cities criminality denigration diversity immigrants inner_suburbs isolated love_letters neighbourhoods op-ed Scarborough Toronto working-class books writers perceptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9e2cae90c1b7/Barbara Bosson, 83, Dies; Brought Family Drama to ‘Hill Street Blues’2023-02-22T07:56:20+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/arts/television/barbara-bosson-dead.html
jerryking'80s '90s actors criminal_justice_system ensemble_acting nostalgia obituaries police_procedural producers television writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d1eef83e6a14/How Failure Defines the Writing Life2023-02-14T18:11:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/books/review/writers-failure-joyce-melville-boethius.html
jerryking>“On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer,” by Stephen Marche <<
>>The public sees writers only during their victories, but their lives are spent mainly in defeat.<<
“Is it ever easier?” a young writer asked me recently. “Do you ever grow a thicker skin?” She was suffering because an essay she’d written about the death of her mother had been rejected by every outlet that conceivably might publish it. I had no answer, so I told her a story. Just before the outbreak of Covid, the novelist and short story writer Nathan Englander had moved into my neighborhood in Toronto, and we would sometimes sit around my backyard firepit, drinking and complaining. “Is it ever easier?” I asked him one night. “Do you ever grow a >>thicker skin<” Englander had no answer, so he told me a story. He had once been at dinner with Philip Roth. “Is it ever easier?” he asked Roth. “My skin will get thicker with each book, right?” Roth didn’t need a story. He had an answer. “It’ll get thinner and thinner until they can hold you up to the light and see through,” [i.e. = "thin-skinned"] Roth said.
A paradox defines writing: The public sees writers mainly in their victories but their lives are spent mostly in defeat.
The dominant >>narrative<< at the moment is that failure leads to success. The internet loves this arc: low then high; first perseverance, then making it; all struggle redeemed; the more struggle the more >>redemption<<. I hate those stories. Don’t tell me about how it’s all going to work out..........[redemption] Stories like this are about as useful as lottery ads are to retirement planning. Personally, I’ve always felt comforted by the realization that failure is the body of a writer’s life, and success only ever a temporary attire. But I do ask myself a question that I know a lot of writers, in many different periods, have asked: Is now a particularly lousy time to be a writer, or does it just feel that way?...............Part of the problem, for writers of my generation anyway, is that we’re living in an aftermath. The relative peace and prosperity of the postwar era gave birth to an array of literary institutions that have been in managed decline ever since. Failure is spreading because of technological and social changes that are beyond anyone’s control. The writing of our time is in constant, unrelenting transition. One mode of writing (print) is dying and another mode (digital) is being born. And in digital writing, whole schemes of meaning arise and then dissolve or rot or flame out, leaving only ashes and uncertain memories of a bright flash. Each transition requires starting over, re-evaluating, submitting and, above all, failing. Just to survive, young writers today will have to live through multiple revisions of who they are and what they do. Within a few years, the modes of expression they’re learning now, the writerly identities they hunger to inhabit, won’t exist or won’t be recognizable.........The boomers’ writing lives were exceptions. With the extreme turbulence and decaying institutions of our moment, we are returning to the historical standard. The next time you’re rejected from some grant or some job, remember James Joyce in 1912. He had just turned 30. He was living in self-imposed exile in Italy, with his future wife, Nora Barnacle, and a couple of kids. His landlord was threatening to evict him for rent arrears. In desperation, he applied for a job teaching English at a local technical college, but he didn’t have the necessary qualifications and sat for an examination in Padua for a teaching diploma — three days of written work, followed by an oral exam. Literary history presents us with the scene of Joyce, who had, by this point, already written “Dubliners” and much of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” attempting to prove to administrators at an Italian technical college that he knew how English worked..............Writers’ abilities and their careers simply do not correlate; they never have.................The farther back you go, the more evident the power of failure. “Bad fortune,[i.e. = "misfortune"] I think, is more use to a man than good fortune,[i.e. = "chance"/"contingency"/"luck"]” Boethius wrote in the sixth century. **“Good fortune always seems to bring happiness, but deceives you with her smiles, whereas bad fortune is always truthful because by changing she shows her true fickleness.” **Boethius ought to have known. He wrote “The Consolation of Philosophy” after some likely trumped-up connection to a plot against the Goth king Theodoric led to his being imprisoned and condemned to death. Up to that moment, he’d been a lucky guy, a prominent member of a patrician family, a prodigy, head of the whole Roman civil service for a while. His two sons became consuls on the same day — honor enough for any life. Only after his fall could he write “The Consolation.” According to some accounts, Boethius’s jailers tortured him by tying a cord around his temples and pulling until his eyes popped out of his head before cudgeling him to death. Was that enough bad luck for him? If you do need bad luck to write, how much do you need?..........>>Socrates<< and >>Confucius<< and >>Jesus<< were all failures. Their failures were the most profound, the most total. The great philosopher couldn’t talk his way out of his own execution. The greatest scholar of practical politics held office for only a brief period and couldn’t get a job. Jesus Christ may be history’s most spectacular failed writer. He preached love, and in return his friends betrayed him, his people turned against him, the authorities crucified him. After his death, his disciples gathered a bunch of his speeches into a handful of potted biographies that contradict one another, and their readers used these texts to, among other things, justify brutal empires. Two thousand years later, Jesus has more than two billion devoted fans. They get together, sometimes more than once a week, to read his stuff out loud to one another. A career could not have gone much worse or better.................Lists of writing rules are very popular, like rules for life, and about as accurate. They both offer a comforting sense of agency. Some of this advice is good, like Elmore Leonard’s: “Never open a book with weather,” “Avoid prologues,” “Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.” Other writerly advice can be too obvious or even beyond your control. “When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books,” Zadie Smith proffered whimsically. Margaret Atwood’s is outright wacky but also the most practical: “Before every one of your readings, have a Fisherman’s Friend.”............James Baldwin had more basic counsel. He told The Paris Review: “Write. Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say. If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you. If you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you.” There follows Baldwin’s recipe for a career: “Discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” Discipline, love, luck can all be boiled down to endurance. They’re just motivations for endurance. James Baldwin’s writing advice can be summed up in a word: Persevere...............Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences. Writers are peculiar beings with their successful failures and their failed successes. Their skins are so thin you can hold them up to the light and see through them.
]]>advice books Confucius Elmore_Leonard failure hard_things James_Baldwin James_Joyce Jesus_Christ Margaret_Atwood misfortune narratives paradoxes perseverance Philip_Roth quotes rules_of_the_game Socrates thick-skinned thin-skinned vicissitudes writers writing Zadie_Smith chance contingency luck redemptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d44cf071b7df/Elin Hilderbrand’s Fans Take Nantucket2023-01-24T02:27:44+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/books/elin-hilderbrand-bucket-list-weekend.html
jerryking>fans<< traveled to an island 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, during the coldest month of the year, to see the places she writes about is remarkable unto itself. Factor in repeat participants, a 300-person waiting list for each of the last two >>Bucket List<< Weekends (Hilderbrand says she plans to retire in 2024) and the expense ($695 for an event package, plus transportation and lodging, which begins at $495 on site) and you have to wonder: What is Hilderbrand’s >>special sauce< And what does a Hilderbabe, as fans are known, get out of her time on Nantucket?.........“The greatest thing about this weekend is, hour one maybe it’s about me, but it goes way beyond me. It’s about the island and the group of women,” said Hilderbrand, she continued, “They come to shop. They come to drink. They’re away from their kids and their husband and their job and they’re with their girlfriends and it’s full on fun having. They have joie de vivre. That is typical of my readers.”
Elin, who is 53, has written 29 intelligently uncomplicated beach reads in 23 years, including her latest best sellers, “The Hotel Nantucket” and “Endless Summer.” She has sold over 20 million books worldwide. Most of her novels are set on Nantucket, and all of them include flawed people with seemingly unsolvable problems that somehow get solved, plus detailed descriptions of a breezy, sun-kissed, born-into-it life: the beaches, the meals, the houses, the views from the houses. Hilderbrand’s novels are temporary passports to a world where you won’t get queasy on a sailboat or have to Google a recipe for cocktail sauce.[i.e. = "escapism"]
The first Bucket List Weekend was the brainchild of Mark and Gwenn Snider, owners of the Nantucket Hotel, who befriended Hilderbrand....Knowing that she had legions of fans, the pair asked Hilderbrand if she’d host a winter weekend for readers at the hotel. She figured 40 people would show up; instead, rooms sold out in four days and around 125 people descended on the island in 2015.
The next January, there were >>repeat customers<<......Eventually Hilderbrand realized that her readers were **building a community of their own**.
]]>authors book_clubs bucket_lists camaraderie community community-building fans fiction friendships in-group joy like-minded local_knowledge Nantucket personal_branding resorts soul-enriching trust-building women writers escapism special_sauce find_your_tribe repeat_customershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:242081b80613/Opinion | Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb and the Art of the Edit - The New York Times2023-01-06T08:33:20+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/opinion/robert-caro-robert-gottlieb-and-the-art-of-the-edit.html
jerrykingauthors duos editing editors Robert_Caro writers writing partnershipshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:df26218a1156/Opinion | Why Dickens Haunts Us2022-12-25T23:45:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/24/opinion/why-dickens-haunts-us.html
jerrykingauthors books Charles_Dickens Christmas fiction writers Maureen_Dowdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a83bdd0b8a56/Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor who blew up the markets2022-10-01T11:50:21+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/dbc6e196-27a0-4b85-8041-3bb6957cf58d
jerryking>Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng<<
>>War and Gold by Kwasi Kwarteng<<
>> Britannia Unchained by Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz Truss and others<<
>>His desire to challenge conventional wisdom sent the pound plummeting this week<<
Even before last week, economists were deeply sceptical of his conviction that tax cuts and deregulation would usher in a “new era” of higher economic growth.......
The chancellor has a divisive reputation. Some colleagues admire his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom. “Talking to Kwasi is never boring. He is an >>iconoclast<< and just the sort of person you want in government,” a fellow cabinet minister says. Others think this strays into overconfidence. “Kwasi isn’t exactly known for crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s,” one senior Tory MP remarks. “He’s always been phenomenally arrogant.”
Civil servants are uncertain. “Having a know-it-all [i.e. = "attitude knowingness"]with limited government experience during a financial crisis is not exactly ideal,” one senior Whitehall official says. “He is in that cabal of people who think they’re right, they don’t get challenged,” one prominent economist moots.
But others say the chancellor is more open to >>fresh ideas<< than he may appear. “In a meeting, he does more talking than listening, but he absolutely hears you,” the business leader says. “If you only know him a little, you think he’s not listening. If you know him better, you know that he is.”
The biggest issue, according to both supporters and critics, is not the substance of his policies, but his disregard for institutional architecture. Although Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, offered to write an updated forecast for the fiscal statement, Kwarteng reportedly brushed it aside.
Even supporters are alarmed. “If you’re not having your homework marked, it’s even more important that you stick to what’s expected,” says Gerard Lyons, chief economic strategist at Netwealth, who has advised him......Kwarteng had been “contemptuous” of an institutional framework that would constrain his choices, Balls says, adding: “It’s not about whether taxes went up or down . . . for 25 years there has been a cross-party consensus on the right way to go about making monetary and fiscal policy. If you rip that up, you are totally exposed.”
]]>authors Black_British books Cambridge conventional_wisdom economists Eton financial_crises iconoclasts immigrants Kwasi_Kwarteng PhDs rule-breaking writers attitude_knowingness fresh_ideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:384108b49c8a/Opinion | The Joy of Finding People Who Love the Same Books You Do - The New York Times2022-09-27T11:20:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/book-author-reader.html
jerrykingauthors books joy reading writers find_your_tribehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8a3f347f5a7a/Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70 -2022-09-23T20:13:56+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63007307
jerryking>imperfect information<< and perhaps wrong expectations, but in any case moving forward into a future that is not pre-determined, but where chance and hazard will play a terrific role."......... "Her wit, stylistic daring, creative ambition and phenomenal historical insight mark her out as one of the greatest novelists of our time.
"She will be remembered for her enormous generosity to other budding writers, her capacity to electrify a live audience, and the huge array of her journalism and criticism, producing some of the finest commentary on issues and books."
Born in Derbyshire in 1952, Dame Hilary studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University.
She worked as a social worker and lived in Botswana and Saudi Arabia before returning to the UK in the mid-1980s......Asked by the Financial Times earlier this month whether she believed in an afterlife, Mantel said she did, but that she couldn't imagine how it might work. "However, the universe is not limited by what I can imagine," she said.]]>authors genius Hilary_Mantel historical_fiction obituaries Wolf_Hall fiction Henry_VIII Man_Booker novels Thomas_Cromwell writers imperfect_informationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7fa0bae29dd8/David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 892022-08-09T09:54:20+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/david-mccullough-dead.html
jerryking>think for oneself.<<”
]]>authors bestsellers books David_McCullough Founding_Fathers historians history nation_builders obituaries Pulitzer_Prize think_for_yourself writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5db45b39ace1/Opinion: In these trying times, I look to the works of George Orwell for inspiration - The Globe and Mail2022-07-12T16:49:01+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-these-trying-times-i-look-to-the-works-of-george-orwell-for/
jerryking>false belief<< bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
The limits of what is now called “confirmation bias” were never so well described.
Orwell returned home to become a writer. He had no money, no status, was estranged from his family and struggled to find his voice. But find it he did. He followed the down-and-out citizens of Depression-era England and France, writing about poverty with sociological imagination, personal empathy and increasing political engagement in describing the dark side of empire and industry.
His incisive political observations were perhaps most solidified, however, by his experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
......as Orwell recounted in his 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia, Orwell eschewed both the fascist and communist ideals of the two main opposing sides, and instead joined an anarchist group fighting in revolutionary Barcelona.
Unlike so many on the left who fell under the spell of communism, Orwell received his inoculation from that ideology in Spain. He understood the use and misuse of language, how propagandists could select words and arguments to distort meaning, lie and deliberately confuse. After being shot in the neck and coming very close to losing his life in a fight against fascism, Orwell realized while recuperating that he and his wife, Eileen, were under surveillance by the Spanish Communist Party. He saw friends die on the battlefield, but also tortured as prisoners of the communists, who labelled them “objectively fascist” for dissenting from Stalinism. He witnessed the sheer brutality of tyranny.........Orwell’s writings put him at odds with the prevailing political correctness of his time. He warned of the dangers of the growing reality of >>totalitarianism<<, with his instinct proven correct in the decades that followed. In the macabre alliance of the Soviets and the Nazis in the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact in 1939, he saw a display of contempt for the spirit of democracy. The prevailing themes of Orwell’s best-known works reflect his deep anger over the presence of tyranny all around him – lies and deceit, propaganda and mass surveillance, the rewriting of history, the curbing of personal freedoms; themes that still resonate today, often in terrifying ways.
In the darkness, though, Orwell still found faith in humanity.....We would do well to remember his words in these trying times.
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Great article as it shows the danger of extreme centralization from the left and right of the political spectrum. Too much power in hands of too few [i.e. = "unchecked power"] whether it be govt or corporations or a combination of both leads to loss of freedom of the individual to lead their best life.
]]>1984 Bob_Rae code_words Communicating_&_Connecting communism confirmation_bias doublespeak dystopian euphemisms fascism George_Orwell hard_times hyperbolic incisiveness messaging propaganda rhetoric Spanish_Civil_War surveillance surveillance_state totalitarianism tyranny UN Vladimir_Putin words writers false_beliefs lyinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:be7ed9d5b3a4/Lamming’s Caribbean voice and vision must live on | In Focus2022-06-26T09:44:15+00:00
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20220626/pj-patterson-lammings-caribbean-voice-and-vision-must-live
jerryking>In The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming<<
The entire Caribbean has been jolted by a loss of volcanic enormity with the muting of one of its most powerful voices: the death of novelist, poet, storyteller, and political advocate George Lamming.........It is difficult to explain--and perhaps impossible for the generation of today to understand--why for those of us who were students in the decades of the ‘50s, George Lamming is such an epic and venerable figure. For us the publication In The Castle of My Skin is indelibly etched alongside Roger Bannister’s running of the first sub-four-minute mile and Yuri Gagarin’s first Sputnik voyage. These were >>life-changing<< experiences we will never forget.......As pupils in the most outstanding grammar schools, throughout the region, we had mastered the literature of England – its prose, poetry, drama, and novels.......Those who pursued the Honours Degree in Literature were taught Anglo-Saxon at UCWI and Medieval English as well.
But there was no space for the creative output of our Caribbean writers. Dialect and creole were completely out of the question.
INDIGENOUS WRITINGS
In the quest for >>self-discovery<<, those scholars gifted with an inquisitive mind yearned for the indigenous writings about our African ancestry and Caribbean heritage. In The Castle of My Skin was the welcome fountain for which we yearned. We devoured the enticing feast – from cover to cover – and delved deeply into the legacy and atrocities of racism and oppression it exposed.
There soon followed a steady flow by other distinguished West Indian authors, but it was George Lamming who opened the tap. He is the dominant pioneer who, in a wide range of literary gems thereafter, has emerged as an indomitable revolutionary legend........George was a Caribbean man to the core. His mentor and friend, Frank Collymore, had lit a Caribbean fire in him that drove him to reach out to artistes across the Caribbean. He revealed in his transcendental writings, in his powerful readings on the BBC, as a teacher in the West Indies and later in the United States, Europe, Australia and Africa, the essence of the Caribbean and the similarities he found with the continent of Africa.
Few writers and intellectuals have been as preoccupied or as successful as Lamming was with exploring and interrogating the survival of Africa and the indomitable African spirit within the diaspora despite many centuries of attempted deculturation and indoctrination.
While he made his name with his first novel – In the Castle of My Skin (1953) – his most outstanding philosophical contributions were comparable with those of the giants of his time like Leopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, >>C.L.R. James<<, and >>Frantz Fanon<<.
His thundering voice, whenever he spoke to audiences of learning, touched the hearts of the African and Caribbean diaspora in our struggle for freedom, equity, and justice.........Lamming helped to lay the conceptual framework for Caribbean and African decolonization and independence. He was a colossus of his time whose work will last well beyond the years he shared with us.
]]>'50s activism authors books C.L.R._James Caribbean decolonization deculturation George_Lamming identity indigenous indoctrination life-changing obituaries P.J._Patterson pan-African political_independence self-discovery tributes writers Frantz_Fanonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:08b236f7b9fa/George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 - The New York Times2022-06-18T15:14:18+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/books/george-lamming-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
jerrykingactivism Barbados books C.L.R._James Caribbean Colleges_&_Universities colonialism George_Lamming left-wing novels obituaries pan-African political_independence social_classes United_Kingdom V.S._Naipaul Windrush writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:99cade50ed20/Those hands that fed us all2022-06-11T12:13:41+00:00
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2022/06/10/those-hands-that-fed-us-all/
jerrykingCaribbean ethnic_security fear George_Lamming Indo-Caribbeans Indo-Guyanese pre-Independence race_relations agriculture culture indentured_laborers food communal_responsibility writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d6f2ba548987/George Lamming (1927-2022)2022-06-08T10:23:55+00:00
https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/06/08/features/in-the-diaspora/george-lamming-1927-2022/
jerryking>In the Castle of My Skin (1953),
>>The Emigrants (1954),
>> Of Age and Innocence (1958),
>> The Pleasures of Exile (1960),
>> Season of Adventure (1960),
>>Water with Berries (1971)
>>Natives of My Person (1971).
With the death of George Lamming on June 4 (he would have been 95 today, June 8), we lost our last living connection to the generation who laid the spiritual foundations for Caribbean independence. Lamming was born in Barbados on 8 June 1927, but he understood that rock as only one parish of a scattered nation. He belonged to the entire archipelago and its diaspora, and the loss of his mighty voice, a cerebral troublemaking voice, a steel band of a voice which unravelled complexity through a logic of tones, is felt as bitterly in Port of Spain and Havana, London and Toronto, as in his island.
.......Lamming's 1953 debut novel, In the Castle of My Skin – about which Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, said: "...none of his works touches the Barbadian psyche like his first"[29] – was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee.[30][31]
In a statement issued on the day of his death, Prime Minister Mottley described him as a national icon and as "the quintessential Bajan", saying: "Wherever George Lamming went, he epitomized that voice and spirit that screamed Barbados and the Caribbean.]]>obituaries liberation_parties Barbados books Caribbean novels Pan-African poets political_independence public_intellectuals West_Indian_Federation writers peripatetic academia Bajans anti-colonialism UWI George_Lamming pre-Independencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:310cb0695fa2/Opinion | Timothy Keller on Hope Amidst Terminal Cancer - The New York Times2022-04-11T17:07:45+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/opinion/timothy-keller-cancer-easter.html
jerryking>suffering<< of Jesus and also Easter?**
Holy Week gives you both death and resurrection. They don’t make any sense apart. You can’t have the joy of resurrection unless you’ve gone through a death, and death without >>resurrection<< is just hopeless. Essentially, the death/resurrection motif or pattern is absolutely at the heart of what it means to live a Christian life. And actually everything in life is like that. With any kind of >>suffering<<, if I respond to it by looking to God in faith, >>suffering<< drives me like a nail deeper into God’s love, which is what cancer has done for me.
....
]]>books cancers Christianity churches disease dying Easter encouragement faith faith_leaders focus founders gift_to_the_future mortality New_York_City priests writers pancreas resurrection suffering redemptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a8174c065e8a/A Sci-Fi Visionary Thinks Greed Might Be the Thing That Saves Us - The New York Times2022-01-12T03:42:23+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/10/magazine/neal-stephenson-interview.html
jerrykingapocalypses books climate_change CO2 doomsayers dystopian fiction future geo-engineering greed malevolence Neal_Stephenson negativity_bias novels Pearl_Harbour pessimism science_fiction scientific_method utopian visionaries writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5322565e70b2/Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 - The New York Times2021-12-25T20:40:30+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html
jerrykingjournalists obituaries writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:15ac04459b15/Migration will soon be the biggest climate challenge of our time | Financial Times2021-10-04T18:58:10+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/415f4a8c-cab4-4f95-99aa-b347bb510365#comments-anchor
jerryking>Climate change<< is nearing the point of no return......the forthcoming COP26 summit, while necessary to promote climate change mitigation, is wholly insufficient to address the equally important agenda that faces humanity: >>adaptation<<.
As heat, rising seas and drought render swaths of the planet uninhabitable, millions, if not billions of people may eventually have to relocate to terrain in the latitudes best suited to survival....The toughest challenge that lies before us isn’t reducing emissions, it’s relocating people...there is no international agency currently empowered to address this fundamental question of human geography.
In the postwar decades, relatively predictable patterns of migration occurred both within and across regions.... In the coming decades, though, the world will have to contend with several looming demographic imbalances. Labour shortages across North America, Europe and northern Asia are becoming more acute, and these regions will need to open the immigration taps accordingly....This century we are projected to reach “peak humanity”, our maximum species population of almost 11bn. From that point forward, survival becomes a distribution game. How will we choose to organize ourselves across the planet’s 150m square kilometres of territory? Is today’s map fit for purpose, given how many people must move — and move again — across various >>borders<< at various times?.......In matters of migration, national governments [i.e. = "nation-states"] have sovereign writ. But answering the challenge of human geography requires more than tinkering with bilateral migration agreements.
We must bridge the gap between the hyper-sensitized and short-term political discourse around migration and the collective strategy needed to house humanity. Speaking of human geography rather than migration can be a powerful rhetorical tool, for it emphasizes that we are all in the same boat and gently shifts the focus from narrow national sovereignty to expansive planetary stewardship.
In a world with a changing climate, we need a new division of labour among the continents. South America and Africa will become ever more regions of emigrants. North America and Eurasia must absorb more people, while recirculating them from the water-stressed southern US and south Asia into more fertile inland areas. There will be climate pioneers who terraform difficult new terrain in places such as Canada and Russia for millions of future migrants. Our political cartography will also evolve.
Sinking South Pacific islands will need to be abandoned for Australia and New Zealand, which will in effect become their protectorates within a collective Oceania rather than meaningful sovereigns. Today’s fiscally strained and depopulating Visegrad countries could fuse into a larger federation to better administer their vital forests, agriculture and rivers in order to prepare for demographic replenishment by Arabs and Asians.
In a reversal of today’s centrifugal trends, the British Isles would not only deepen their resource-sharing but represent key hubs in a resurrected version of the medieval Hanseatic League of trading ports, linking Churchill in Canada to Aberdeen, Scotland and Kirkenes, Norway.
Many scholars ask: what lies beyond sovereignty? If we are wise, the answer will be “programmable geography” — recoding places based on their changing roles in our fluid global system. Habitable geography is our most precious terrestrial resource, and we must optimize it for those that come after us. Adapting sovereignty to a new reality is what we owe the future.
]]>adaptability Arabs Asians books climate_refugees droughts Eurasia Europe floods human_geography internal_migration Kazakhstan migrants nation-states North_America out-migration peak_humanity population_movements relocation rhetoric sea-level_rise sovereignty tipping_points upheavals writers climate_change dislocations extreme_weather_events mass_migrations refugees uninhabitable human_trafficking borders illegal_migration climate_change_adaptationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:17bde87a59b9/Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89 - The New York Times2021-09-23T22:57:28+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/movies/melvin-van-peebles-dead.html
jerryking'60s '70s actors African-Americans artists blaxploitation Broadway filmmakers films hustle movies obituaries painters peripatetic producers storytelling stylish traders trailblazers writers Black_cinema Renaissance_man over_romanticizedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:51aa905fe0dc/Acclaimed linguist John McWhorter muses on the taboos of our time in Nine Nasty Words2021-08-07T20:11:40+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-acclaimed-linguist-john-mcwhorter-muses-on-the-taboos-of-our-time-in/
jerrykingAfrican-Americans authors books curse_words John_McWhorter linguistics n-word professors taboos words writers etymology profanityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:629752dfcc18/Mathematician Hannah Fry: ‘I’m sure there’s lots of tutting — but not to my face’ | Financial Times2021-07-31T03:26:07+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/a5e33e5a-99b9-4bbc-948f-8a527c7675c3
jerrykingAha!_moments artificial_intelligence biases Big_Tech books cancers coded_bias Communicating_&_Connecting COVID-19 decision_making deep_learning domination exponential fluidity Hannah_Fry logarithmic mathematics medical_communication pandemics PhDs professors public_intellectuals risks scholars scientifically_literate United_Kingdom women writers humanize human_experience human_nature human_scale unchecked_power probabilitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7a993f2ee346/Pulitzer-Winning Critic Wesley Morris Captured the Moment2021-07-27T02:05:56+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/insider/wesley-morris-pulitzer.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking>memorable<<, revised-to-perfection ending [i.e. = "endgame"] . “He always **reworks** his last graph until it slays,”[i.e.= "well written"]
]]>African-Americans criticism journalists NYT Pulitzer_Prize Wesley_Morris writers blackness carpe_kairos culture cultural_criticism cultural_interpretation incisiveness race revisions self-identification popular_culture facial_hair memorableness endgame writing_wellhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:991169066eb0/Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina2021-05-20T04:03:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html?surface=most-popular&fellback=false&req_id=199407215&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-uh-nclicks-alpha-01&variant=1_bandit-all-surfaces-uh-nclicks-alpha-01&pool=pool/91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1&imp_id=465979639&action=click&module=Popular%20in%20The%20Times&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking1619 African-Americans appointments backlash boards_&_directors_&_governance Colleges_&_Universities history journalism journalists NYT writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b79d75f29775/AA Thorne: Guyanese politician, trade unionist, journalist and educator2021-05-02T19:24:07+00:00
https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/05/02/sunday/aa-thorne-guyanese-politician-trade-unionist-journalist-and-educator/
jerrykingAfro-Guyanese educators Guyana history journalists politicians public_service writers '20s '30s trade_unionists trade_unions AA_Thorne pre-Independencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f0ec0d8c4da7/Opinion | How the N-Word Became Unsayable2021-05-01T21:55:51+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/john-mcwhorter-n-word-unsayable.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingetymology John_McWhorter African-Americans authors books curse_words linguistics n-word profanity professors taboos words writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0ec361ca769c/Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine Writer With a Lyrical Touch, Dies at 91 - The New York Times2021-04-15T04:17:50+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/arts/frank-jacobs-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
jerrykingobituaries satire writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f65e3fc3de6f/Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media2021-03-31T17:34:43+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/3e565df2-0cb2-4126-a879-eb2710eef03a
jerrykingAndreessen_Horowitz competitive_advantage content_creators digital_media free_speech freelancing journalists layoffs newsletters newspapers newsrooms newsstand_circulation niches paywalls platforms print_journalism specialization start_ups subscriptions Substack writers polarization heterogeneity independent_viewpoints intellectual_diversity intellectual_explorationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ba8e24be7dd5/The CEO whisperer: ‘Every leader needs a fool’2021-03-07T23:17:45+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/74280f82-1523-4cc4-bc3c-4c8eb12ef4b8
jerryking>purpose<< in life.
(3) Competence. Practice your craft.
(4) Choose the right partner and career.
(5) transcendence--to go beyond yourself. Happiness is something to do, someone to love and something to hope for
Those sceptical about psychotherapy call it something else--coach!!.......“The best leaders,” he says, “are the ones who act and reflect. I sometimes ask them: ‘Can I see your agenda?’ And every moment is full. I ask them: ‘Are you out of your mind? Cross out some afternoons, walk around and think.’”
]]>authors books CEOs echo_chambers gurus HBS Holocaust hunting Insead leaders management pandering PhDs psychoanalysis psychology self-reflection WWII whispering writers purpose slack_time sustained_inquiry thinking bad_news court_jesters speak_truth_to_power carnivorehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1455c7e4d333/Lawrence Otis Graham, 59, Dies; Explored Race and Class in Black America - The New York Times2021-03-01T18:39:14+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/lawrence-otis-graham-dead.html
jerrykingAccomplisher_Class authors books elitism high-income high_net_worth HLS in-group Ivy_League journalists lawyers obituaries race social_classes upper-income upper_echelons writers African-Americans Lawrence_Otis_Grahamhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e0db60333bfc/From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic2021-01-31T10:45:04+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/books/michael-lewis-premonition-coronavirus-pandemic.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Books
jerryking>underexplored<< vantage point: the ground-level view of people who led “a kind of secret shadow response” to the pandemic, as top government officials falsely assured the public that the coronavirus would disappear.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From FT EDITOR Roula Khalaf, JUNE 26 2021
My top pick is a story that everyone should read as we emerge from the devastation of the Coronavirus. Michael Lewis’ Premonition is the story of a group of devoted American scientists and medical professionals who spent years preparing for a Covid-like pandemic, only to be frustrated at every turn by politicians and bureaucrats. It is vintage Lewis, terrifically engaging and chillingly damning of the failure of institutions.
]]>authors books book_reviews Covid-19 heroes Michael_Lewis nonfiction pandemics pathogens public_health viruses writers institutional_failure under-exploredhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ebc61971163f/Sharon Begley, a Top Science Journalist, Is Dead at 642021-01-23T18:49:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/science/sharon-begley-dead.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking>versatile<<, too, writing with authority across a range of topics, routinely **taking a mound of complex material and synthesizing it into a clear, compelling narrative**............After Newsweek, Ms. Begley wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and, for the last five years, Stat, the Boston-based health and science news website, where she was one of its lead writers on Covid-19. In a 43-year career she took home a boat load of science-writing prizes.......Ms. Begley would be “long remembered for making the most complex science stories both exciting and accessible.”........“I think of Sharon as a quintessential Enlightenment-era figure,” Jon Meacham, a former Newsweek editor in chief, said in an email. “She wrote brilliantly about everything under the sun, and beyond it, from the origins of human life to climate change, from the mysteries of the brain to the death of Diana.”...........The science beat allowed Ms. Begley to explore anything that grabbed her fancy and, in her modest way, to display her wit. In a short article about whether women were more verbose than men, she concluded, “I could go on, but I wouldn’t want to validate any remaining stereotypes.”.......When Richard L. Berke, co-founder and executive editor of Stat, was assembling a staff in 2015 for what was then a start-up, he asked for the names of the best science writers in the country. Ms. Begley, then at Reuters, was on virtually every list.........In her time at Stat, Ms. Begley broke new ground in the esoteric fields of genomics and genetics, but always in reader-friendly prose.......She wrote with >>moral clarity<<. In one piece, she suggested that the lack of urgency in finding a cure for sickle-cell disease was because it mainly afflicted “the wrong people” — that is, Black people. In another, she said that a “cabal” of researchers had thwarted progress in finding a cure for Alzheimer’s by clinging “dogmatically” to one theory of the disease while rejecting alternative approaches...........She went on to Yale, where she majored in combined sciences with an emphasis on physics. She earned her degree in three years, graduating in 1977.
Newsweek hired her out of college as a researcher, long a dead-end job for women. But landmark gender discrimination lawsuits brought by women at Newsweek and settled in 1973 changed that. Within a year of being hired, she was made a writer with a byline, and when her mentor, Peter Gwynne, left Newsweek in 1981, she was named science editor while continuing to write. She was 25.....Ms. Begley was lured away from Newsweek in 2002 by The Wall Street Journal, which gave her a science column. She stayed for five years before Newsweek enticed her back with a science column there and the promise of a wider audience....When Mr. Berke came calling from Stat, she was ready to make a change and move from New York to Boston......In a Zoom gathering that Stat held for her on Tuesday, her younger colleagues repeatedly expressed awe at her intellectual star power, her lack of ego, her calming presence and her generosity in mentoring them.
]]>books reader-friendly WSJ authors best_of journalism journalists Newsweek obituaries science_writing Sharon_Begley Stat women dead-end writers science_journalism versatility moral_clarityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c7d357a10716/Eric Jerome Dickey, Best-Selling Novelist, Dies at 59 - The New York Times2021-01-07T20:23:13+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/books/eric-jerome-dickey-dead.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingAfrican-Americans books fiction novels obituaries urban_fiction writers bestsellershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3df730ba8a23/What makes John le Carré a writer of substance2020-12-18T05:14:49+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/04df988d-9b09-4e6a-b7d8-70b1a5e654dc
jerryking>perceptive<< and enduring writers of his age
]]>books espionage fiction John_le_Carré Simon_Schama tributes writers substance perceptivenesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:848b03dd558b/How newsletters are making big bucks from your inbox2020-12-16T02:38:16+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/7bd8e654-a19a-4e96-9a09-e4d61203547d
jerrykingAndreessen_Horowitz journalists newsletters Patreon Substack start_ups celebrities content_creators layoffs newspapers niches specialization subscriptions writers creator_economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:30e8aed70552/Opinion | Just How White Is the Book Industry?2020-12-15T05:59:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR1K23KthaOypiO1aKyOIzW55YKwAn_KDenJjWYQyto_KQKyG3i6mE7q7dU
jerrykingauthors baselines bestsellers books correlations data data_collection diversity publishing racial_disparities showrunners stereotypes writers blind_spots gatekeepers white_menhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9fbe9e9b7ac2/John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 892020-12-14T20:16:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books/john-le-carre-dead.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
jerrykingambiguities authors books Cold_War deception diplomacy espionage fiction human_frailties human_nature John_le_Carré MI5 MI6 novels obituaries security_&_intelligence spycraft undercover_agents writers moral_compromiseshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7a30b566d0cf/Small Days: Down Memory Lane: Georgetown Cinemas of Yesteryear2020-11-13T17:18:18+00:00
https://sharonmaas.blogspot.com/2014/06/down-memory-lane-of-georgetown-cinemas.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR1zos4u9JiS23E5M44DCcAJc5IasfEz5-W-7HDZmWRp4vIqF3LYF5ZzDHI
jerrykingcinemas films Georgetown Guyana Guyanese movies nostalgia childhood memories reminiscing women writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c69e437400e6/Quote by Octavia E. Butler: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought...”2020-10-12T10:19:42+00:00
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/374065-choose-your-leaders-with-wisdom-and-forethought-to-be-led
jerryking>James Baldwin’s<< assertion that “a society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven,” Butler lets us know that drowning people do not choose their leaders wisely.....Again and again, Butler cautions against the blindness of choosing from a state of heightened emotion — the very blindness which political propaganda is aimed at blinkering over the eyes of the electorate with the constant stirring of our most reptilian fears:
]]>African-Americans authors hard_choices leaders science_fiction wisdom women writers fiction poetry visionaries affirmations inspiration forethought James_Baldwinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1068c6cfd208/Opinion | The Best Reason to Go to College2020-09-07T19:33:37+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/opinion/college-students-learning.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingauthors Colleges_&_Universities curiosity divisiveness elitism intellectual_exploration millennials Obama Pico_Iyer polarization students surprises travel writers information_gaps open_mind dogma internationally_minded self-awarenesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a397402c98c3/Will COVID-19 be the end of globalization? - The Globe and Mail2020-08-31T12:13:49+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-globalization/
jerrykingassumptions authors Bay_Street blue-collar Chrystia_Freeland dark_side downside globalization Magna middle_class pandemics populism turning_points working-class writers books COVID-19 domestic_supply Donald_Trump economic_inequity economists free_trade millennials Jeffrey_Rubinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:323aa6cc856c/Ken Corsbie is eighty - Stabroek News2020-08-30T18:37:19+00:00
https://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/10/28/guyana-review/ken-corsbie-is-eighty/
jerrykingwriters storytelling actors Caribbean directors Guyana Guyanese theatre calypso carnival folklore cultural_heritage culture culture_keepershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:424b75b93722/Hubris and Delusion at the End of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Trilogy2020-08-27T00:35:07+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/hubris-and-delusion-at-the-end-of-hilary-mantels-tudor-trilogy
jerrykingauthors books book_reviews Hilary_Mantel historical_fiction hubris think_threes Tudors writers Thomas_Cromwellhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cde291d7f25f/Remembering Richard Gwyn | TVO.org2020-08-20T03:08:10+00:00
https://www.tvo.org/article/remembering-richard-gwyn
jerrykingAlzheimer’s_disease authors Canada Canadian columnists history journalists obituaries Richard_Gwyn Steve_Paikin Torstar TVO unconventional_thinking writers Sir_John_A._Macdonald crazy_ideas muddling_through original_thinking radical_ideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fee2cda0ab0e/Journalist Richard Gwyn had keen insights about Ottawa’s corridors of power - The Globe and Mail2020-08-19T16:38:22+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-journalist-richard-gwyn-had-keen-insights-about-ottawas-corridors-of/
jerryking>organize his thoughts<< well and articulate them well, and he played well with others. He could disagree with somebody else if he was in the midst of a debate without being personal or resorting to ad hominem attacks. That’s what made him so good at what he did,” Mr. Paikin said......“Richard was a particular kind of guy. He didn’t know about sports, nothing about the Leafs or the Blue Jays, he didn’t golf, and as a result, his passion in life was issues, the country and the world. Policy, thinking, writing and reading were the things that he loved to do, and he could do all of them with the best of them,” Mr. Paikin said.
Mr. Gwyn was modest about his success. He said he was lucky to be born when he was, 11 years before the start of the postwar baby boom.
“The big thing in life is to time your birth. I was just ahead of the baby boomers. You didn’t have to worry about getting jobs. [Today] I would be struggling,” he told Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Gwyn felt he was lucky to come to Canada.
“The Canadian values of tolerance, civility, and decency are precious and are becoming more and more rare the world over,” he wrote in 1997. In one of his last columns in the Toronto Star in 2016, he said: “For some time now, it’s been obvious that Canada is one of the most successful countries in the world.”
Mr. Gwyn stopped writing and appearing on television as he realized he was suffering from dementia. He leaves his wife, Carol Bishop-Gwyn.
]]>authors creating_opportunities fresh_eyes hard_work history historians insights journalists obituaries Richard_Gwyn Steve_Paikin Torstar TVO writers insider's_knowledge insider-outsider organize_your_thinkinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a582108bc8ab/Alfred A. Thorne - Wikipedia2020-07-07T02:36:35+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Thorne
jerrykingAfro-Guyanese public_service writers politicians history AA_Thornehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4243926f1687/Jared Diamond: lessons from a pandemic2020-05-28T13:43:01+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/71ed9f88-9f5b-11ea-b65d-489c67b0d85d
jerrykingaboriginals accountability authors Aztecs best-case books climate_change cooperation coordination COVID-19 crisis epidemics germs history Incas income_inequality isolated lessons_learned national_identity nuclear_proliferation overconsumption overharvesting pandemics paradoxes plagues predictors Pulitzer_Prize self-appraisal shared_consciousness shared_experiences silver_linings slowly_moving standard_of_living threats urgency viruses worst-case writers Jared_Diamond collective_action microbes historical_lessons co-ordinated_approaches conquests lemons-to-lemonade tight_cultures wake-up_calls disease cohesiveness social_cohesion brutal_honesty nuclear_weaponshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e5fffdc7d09e/Thomas Reppetto, Crime Watchdog and Historian, Is Dead at 882020-05-10T20:56:40+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/nyregion/thomas-reppetto-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
jerrykingbooks Chicago criminal_justice_system Harvard historians leaders New_York_City NYPD obituaries organized_crime PhDs police policing public_administration watchdogs writers Ray_Kelly criminality crime-fighting actionable_information pattern_recognition different_perspectives policy_failureshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6d22d4051424/Scott Galloway (professor) - Wikipedia2020-04-27T05:23:15+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Galloway_(professor)
jerrykingbooks FAANG Amazon Apple branding digital_strategies Facebook Google platforms Scott_Galloway authors business_schools digital_influencers MBAs writers professorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:320a98b0147a/The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents2020-04-17T17:15:05+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/article/copyrights-trademarks-patents.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=692366180&imp_id=72688270&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingartists copyrights intellectual_property inventors patents trademarks USPTO writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c13aa60884c8/35 Top African-American Artists on the Work That Inspires Them - The New York Times2020-04-04T02:19:33+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/arts/african-american-art-inspiration.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
jerryking21st._century actors African-Americans art artists Beyoncé books dance dancers inspiration Oprah_Winfrey singers Ta-Nehisi_Coates Toni_Morrison writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e8f8ddda34a3/How Hilary Mantel’s Tudor anti-hero redefined historical fiction2020-03-03T17:45:29+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/16eeb112-5307-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f
jerrykinganti-hero authors books Hilary_Mantel historical_fiction writers Tudorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8acdf1442cd9/Opinion | ‘1917’ Turns a Horrific War Into an Uplifting Hero’s Journey - The New York Times2020-02-17T22:04:55+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/opinion/1917-movie-world-war-I.html?searchResultPosition=2
jerrykingWWI film_reviews historical_dramas massacres movie_reviews playwrights whitewashing writers misleading sanitization indifference filmmakers Hero's_Journeyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:611a3313f49e/William Gibson — the prophet of cyberspace talks AI and climate collapse2020-02-14T15:19:46+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/48b6d0f6-499f-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441
jerrykingartificial_intelligence authors bots climate_change climate_denial cyberspace Donald_Trump ethnonationalism fiction future futurists individual_agency individual_autonomy mass_migrations pandemics right-wing science_fiction singularity societal_collapse unevenly_distributed virtual_assistants William_Gibson writers xenophobia apocalypses intelligent_agents prophets novels climate_refugeeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:089a0db50c66/Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67 - The New York Times2020-01-26T11:26:53+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/business/clayton-christensen-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
jerrykingClayton_Christensen HBS obituaries authors disruption management_consulting PhDs Rhodes scholars writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1fe4592301f5/Clayton Christensen, author of ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’, 1952-20202020-01-25T21:10:46+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/54bb9216-3efe-11ea-b232-000f4477fbca
jerrykingauthors Clayton_Christensen disruption HBS management_consulting obituaries PhDs Rhodes scholars writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1b1bf50ce17c/Ernest J. Gaines, Author of ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,’ Is Dead at 86 - The New York Times2019-11-06T08:19:45+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/books/ernest-gaines-dead.html
jerrykingAfrican-Americans obituaries the_South writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:09a4967086e0/What meeting Bernie Madoff taught me about our inability to read others2019-10-03T14:02:53+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/ba0062a6-e4a8-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
jerryking>Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell.<<
>>The Human Swarm, by Mark Moffett<<
Malcolm Gladwell, the writer, earned fame — and fortune — by producing books such as The Tipping Point (2000) that popularised human psychology. In his new study, Talking to Strangers, he looks at our propensity to misread other people. It is an increasingly pressing question for our polarised, fake-news era.
How should we interpret the signals we receive from others? This matters when it comes to detecting fraud, of course......It also matters in other ways. Today more than ever, we all suffer if we misread the signals we receive from different social groups. It is human nature to assume our own culture is the definition of “normal”,[i.e. = being guilty of ">>mirror-imaging<<" or too ">>self-referential<<"] and to use this lens when we view others .....even traits that we assume are “universal”, such as [jck: visual cues] facial expressions, can vary hugely between cultures — and, of course, within societies that speak the same language.
Gladwell describes, for example, how social interactions between black and white communities in America are regularly marred by misunderstandings, with tragic consequences. “[This] is what happens when a society does not know how to talk to strangers,” he concludes.......Moffett then advances two broader points. First, he argues that humans (like ants) need a sense of tribal identity and belonging, with specialisations clearly defined; but, second, he insists that the way humans develop this tribal identity is crucially different from other animals.
Among some species, such as chimpanzees, trust only emerges through face-to-face contact between individuals in small groups; in others, creatures only >>co-operate<< if they can be instantly identified as coming from the same species. Ants kill anything that smells different.....what is amazing about humans – albeit rarely celebrated – is how we generally tolerate outsiders without instantly needing to kill them.[i.e. ="negotiate-tolerate differences"]
“Being comfortable around unfamiliar members of our society gave humans advantages from the get-go and made nations possible,” Moffett writes. “Chimpanzees need to know everybody [to tolerate them]. Ants need to know nobody. Humans only need to know somebody [for society to function.]” This achievement deserves far more attention, since it only works in two conditions. First, humans must feel secure in their own group (which they signal with symbols and rituals); second, “strangers” can only be smoothly absorbed if everyone **learns to read different symbols too** [i.e. = "negotiate-tolerate differences"/"social learning"] ....If we want to “talk to strangers”, we need to teach our kids (and ourselves) to try to **look at the world through strangers’ eyes**[i.e. = "empathy"] – even if we must also recognise that we will never truly succeed.
]]>books cultural_identity misinterpretations psychopaths signals strangers tribes Bernard_Madoff character_traits deception Gillian_Tett group_identity lying Malcolm_Gladwell misjudgement psychology trustworthiness visual_cues writers assumptions social_trust primates small_groups in-group human_nature chimpanzees human_interactions cooperation mirror-imaging self-referential social_learning empathy negotiate-tolerate_differenceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7cc4cc244324/Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell — truth, lies and deception2019-09-25T16:39:43+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/f6ac7b58-cd8e-11e9-b018-ca4456540ea6
jerrykingAdolf_Hitler books book_reviews deception leaders lying Malcolm_Gladwell misjudgement Sandra_Bland strangers trustworthiness Winston_Churchill writers Bernard_Madoffhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1d5d6060ad29/Opinion | I Was Wandering. Toni Morrison Found Me.2019-08-24T22:56:18+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/opinion/sunday/i-was-wandering-toni-morrison-found-me.html
jerrykingAfrican-Americans authors books obituaries Toni_Morrison tributes women writers fictionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c29fe49deb3d/Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think2019-08-08T00:00:29+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/books/toni-morrison-death-remembrance.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Arts
jerryking>black women<<, often with nary a white person of any significance in sight. The women in my family were reading a black woman imagining black women, their wants, their warts, how the omnipresence of this country’s history can make itself known on any old Thursday.....A life spent savoring Toni Morrison, both as a novelist and a scalding, scaldingly moral literary critic, makes clear that almost no one has better opening sentences......This is all to say that Toni Morrison didn’t teach me how to read. But she did teach me how to read. Hers is the kind of writing that makes you rewind and slow down and ruminate. It’s the kind of writing that makes you rewind because, god, what you just read was that titanic, that perception-altering, that true, a spice on the tongue. .......Morrison is dead now, her legend long secure. But what comedy to think how the writers and critics who loved her labored to get her mastery treated as majesty when she’s so evidently supreme. .....She did for generations of writers what Martin Scorsese did for generations of filmmakers — jolt them, for better and worse, into purpose. Morrison didn’t make me a writer, exactly. What she made me was a thinker. She made the thinking seem uniquely crucial to the matter of being alive......I have now by my bed is some novel by Toni Morrison, whether or not I’m reading it. A night light for my soul. And, in every way, a Good Book.
]]>African-Americans authors books craftsmanship critical_thinking howto novelists novels obituaries reading Toni_Morrison tributes women writers writing purpose soul-enriching Slow_Movement asking_things_of_customers black_womenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ae4134dcd2b9/Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison dies at 882019-08-06T15:40:15+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-toni-morrison-was-a-nobel-prize-winning-author/
jerrykingauthors literature Nobel_Prizes novels obituaries professors trailblazers women writers Pulitzer_Prize African-Americans novelists Toni_Morrisonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4d440d2c66f7/Anthony Price, British author of thrillers with deep links to history, dies at 90 - The Washington Post2019-06-22T16:42:54+00:00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/anthony-price-british-author-of-thrillers-with-deep-links-to-history-dies-at-90/2019/06/15/8ebb79fe-8f9a-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html
jerrykingbooks Cold_War espionage fiction journalists obituaries military_history authors writers novelshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ba7a01eadebc/Michael Lewis Makes Boring Stuff Interesting - WSJ2019-05-18T19:15:57+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-lewis-makes-boring-stuff-interesting-11558098125?mod=hp_featst_pos2
jerryking>rigged<< from stem to stern, as everyone from President Donald Trump to sports fans to the Black Lives Matter movement insists?.....The idea ...is to examine “what’s happened to fairness” in an age when America’s arbiters are no longer trusted. The Walter Cronkites of the world are gone, and those assigned to make the tough calls are reviled, threatened and assumed (sometimes correctly) to be corrupt.....“It’s a big problem for democracy if people don’t have a shared reality,” Mr. Lewis says. “It’s difficult to establish a referee in an increasingly unequal environment” like today’s U.S., “when there are powerful parties and not-so powerful ones. .......Mr. Lewis’s skills turn out to be well-suited to the podcast medium. His calling card, echoed by untold critics and readers, is this: He makes boring stuff interesting. He collects disparate ingredients, whips them up with **character** and narrative, and distills human stories into engrossing big-picture explainers........Lewis keeps seeing failures of >>refereeing<<. “There was no referee at the interface between Wall Street and the consumers—consumer finance. I saw the birth of that, when Wall Street hit segments of society it had never touched, through subprime mortgages, for car loans, through asset-backed securities.[i.e. = "financialization"] There was no one saying, ‘That’s fair and that’s not.’”.......Among his topics: correct English usage, judges, used cars, identity theft, credit-card companies, student-loan abuses, Cambridge Analytica, King Solomon and the famed mediator Kenneth Feinberg, who handled victim compensation for 9/11 families and those affected by the 2010 BP oil spill. Listeners can imagine myriad future topics related to fairness: expanding the Supreme Court, machines calling balls and strikes, cable-news coverage of the Trump presidency and so on. ]]>boring credit-ratings democracy failure fairness gaming_the_system Michael_Lewis NBA podcasting podcasts refereeing rules_of_the_game unglamorous writers consumer_finance shared_experiences Wall_Street rigging find_questions_that_make_the_world_interesting characterization financializationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:45fd8887eb12/An Obituary Writer Writes One for Himself2019-04-21T19:44:42+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-obituary-writer-writes-one-for-himself-11555683563?mod=hp_jr_pos1
jerryking>obituaries<<: A list of names, dates and achievements interspersed with quotes about my nobility, generosity and devotion to family. There will be no speculation about whether I have gone on to an eternal reward.
Instead, I will attempt to answer the three things I try to convey when writing someone else’s obituary: What was he trying to do? Why? And how did it work out?.......Once you resolve to write your own obit, how do you get the job done? My advice is to set aside 15 to 30 minutes once or twice a week until you finish. Don’t fuss about literary flourishes. Just write the story simply, >>in your own voice<<. As for >>structure<<, I’m going with >>chronological order<<. It may not show much imagination, but it provides a clear path for the writer and the reader.]]>howto obituaries writers retrospectives chronological structure in_your_own_voicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5620ad042c42/