Professor of High Caliber (Portrait of Barry Hannah) -- Steve Brodner
Professor of High Caliber, 1988, a portrait of Barry Hannah by Steve Brodner (b. 1954)
The portrait appeared in the 1 July 1988 issue of Esquire, accompanied by the following text:
There he stood, in front of his class at the University of Alabama, tooting on his trumpet: Barry Hannah, gonzo novelist and pseudo-jazz musician, a man possessed by more than the English language. He was playing his…
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These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.
While the violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aiming to subvert democracy and keep President Donald Trump in power, another group was already working on the same project inside. In an unsuccessful bid to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, 147 Republicans formally supported objection to counting Joe Biden’s electoral votes.
Some have already left office. But as many as 117 members of Congress are running for reelection in 2024. Here they are, drawn together; a collection of American politicians engaged in using democracy in order to attain the power to subvert it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/steve-brodner-politicians-jan-6/?itid=hp_opinions_p002_f001
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Opinion These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.
Steve Brodner, Washington Post, Jan. 2 at 8:00 a.m.
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On Twitter I communicate directly with the writers. It’s a breakdown of all the institutions
Brodner, Steve. “How Trolls Are Ruining The Internet.” Time, 18 August 2016, https://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/. Accessed 27 September 2023.
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My Year in Reading: 2023
Here is every book I read over the last year, listed in the order I read them. These are the books I read cover-to-cover and completed. Books I particularly enjoyed are in boldface. Books I’ve read multiple times are marked with an asterisk.
James Tiptree, Jr. - The Girl Who Was Plugged In*
Kazuo Umezz - The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 2
Vonda N. McIntyre - Screwtop*
Hitoshi Iwaaki - Parasyte 8
James Spooner - The High Desert
Ernest Hemingway - True at First Light
Adrian Tomine - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Jeff Lemire - Mazebook
Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell - Norse Mythology, Vol. 1
Veronica Roth - Arch-Conspirator
Annie Ernaux - Getting Lost
Seamus Heaney - The Burial at Thebes
John Connolly - Every Dead Thing
Alexander Theroux - The Enigma of Al Capp
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips - Fatale, Book Two: The Devil's Business
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips - Fatale, Book Three: West of Hell
Jason - Upside Dawn
Nick Hornby - Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
Scott Snyder & Jeff Lemire - A. D. : After Death
Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Alisa Kwitney & Mike Norton - Mystik U
Kelly Barnhill - The Crane Husband
Steve Brodner - Living and Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle, 2020 - 2022
Hua Hsu - Stay True
Stephen King - Billy Summers
Heidi Julavits - The Folded Clock: A Diary
Salman Rushdie - Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Alberto Moravia - Agostino
Don Winslow - City on Fire
Paul Auster & Spencer Ostrander - Bloodbath Nation
David Milch - Life's Work: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry - Horseman, Pass By
Patti Smith - A Book of Days
Gahan Wilson - Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book Three: 1994 - 2008
Claire Keegan - Foster
Lucinda Williams - Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Oct/Nov 2000)
Fantasy & Science Fiction (January 1972)
Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night
Denise Mina - Three Fires
Jon Fosse - Aliss at the Fire
Kristen Radtke - Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Bob Layton - Hercules: Prince of Power*
Gahan Wilson - Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book One: 1957 - 1973
Annie Ernaux - The Young Man
Julia Wertz - Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
Sean Murphy - Batman: Curse of the White Knight
Paul McCartney - 1964: Eyes of the Storm
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The Intractability Of Racism In American Politics
The Intractability Of Racism In American Politics
Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election cycle since 2004 and continue to the present day—two elections after his presidency ended. In Trash Talk, folklorist Patricia A. Turner examines how these thought patterns have grown ever more vitriolic…
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EXTRA! es una sección mensual que recopila los mejores diseños en las páginas de la prensa nacional e internacional, con publicaciones que no han aparecido con anterioridad en el blog.
En la recopilación de septiembre destacamos (de arriba a abajo y de izquierda a derecha):
⬅️1️⃣➡️ Siguiendo la pista de la procedencia de unos mensajes de claro spam con una dudosa oferta de trabajo, una interesante propuesta a doble página ilustrada en el New York Times el 24 de septiembre.
2️⃣y3️⃣ Dos trabajos sobre la regata Bandera de la Concha: a la izquierda la refrescante portadilla del suplemento especial en Diario Vasco y a la derecha, la infografía con todas las curiosidades y datos de las traineras, en El Correo. Publicadas el 2 y 10 de septiembre respectivamente.
4️⃣ Las pruebas del sueño y las diferentes fases durante la vigilia, una completísima doble página infografiada en el regional Las Provincias, publicada el 10 de septiembre.
⬅️5️⃣ El suplemento La Otra Crónica de El Mundo analiza al detalle cómo es la embarcación en la que el rey emérito Juan Carlos realiza sus últimas regatas: así es el 'Borbón Gallant'. Es una visualización de Emilio Amade del 9 de septiembre.
6️⃣➡️ El Los Ángeles Times pone en la palestra todos los pecadores contra el cambio climático, en una concurrida página de 'se busca' ilustrada por Steve Brodner para el diario del día 17.
7️⃣y8️⃣ Dos portadillas del Washington Post para echar el cierre: la pasarela de propuestas artísticas de la nueva temporada en la sección Arts & Style y unos cuantos consejos útiles para dormir en un aeropuerto, dentro de la sección Travel. Son ilustraciones de Fien Jorissen y Kyle Ellingson publicadas el 10 y 17 de septiembre respectivamente.
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