Sex. Drugs. Radio. š» Journalist Steve Oney's ON AIR: THE TRIUMP AND TUMULT OF NPR, out today, is an epic, vibrant dive into the history of National Public Radio.
āItās a compelling predicament to have a character embroiled in debt, with its automatic urgency and its built-in stakes, and there seems to be a universality to debt.ā SaĆÆd Sayrafiezadeh discusses his story āMinimum Payment Due.ā nyer.cm/pnqZNxC
The winner of the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize isā¦
Kathleen DuVal (@KathleenADuVal) for āNative Nations: A Millennium in North Americaā, published by @randomhouse.
A āsweepingā 1000-year history of North America from the rise of ancient cities to the present day.
Introducing the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize shortlist! āØ
From secret CIA plots to the hidden history of Black civil rights, from Indigenous American innovations to new takes on US gun culture and Indonesiaās struggle for independence. Find out more here: cundillprize.com/news/2024shā¦
Happy Pub Day to Jerald Walker's MAGICALLY BLACK AND OTHER ESSAYS (@AmistadBooks), the sharp and insightful follow-up to his @nationalbook award-nominated book HOW TO MAKE A SLAVE.
Happy Publication Day to Pulitzer-Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee, whose new book "PARIS IN RUINS: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism", is out today from @wwnorton in the US... Perfectly timed for: nga.gov/exhibitions/2024/parā¦@ngadc
Happy #PubDay to WIDE AWAKE by @smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan, a propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war (@BloomsburyPub).