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David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books, the CounterPunch Connection

Edit CounterPunch 06 May 2016
Back in 2013, David Bowie posted a list of his 100 favorite books to his Facebook page. A couple of days ago a mutual friend told me that Bowie was at least partially inspired to do this after having read the lists that Alexander Cockburn and I concocted (with vicious internal debates) our of 100 favorite books. , , and . This revelation came as a nice surprise, but it was not entirely shocking ... 1. by David Sylvester. 2 ... by Jessica Mitford....

Female Atlantic Writers From the '60s

Edit The Atlantic 04 May 2016
An undated photo of movie critic Pauline Kael. AP Our August 1968 cover features Joan Baez with a nonfiction excerpt from her memoir, Daybreak. We’ve made it our project over the next several weeks to uncover nonfiction Atlantic pieces written by women. It’s been a difficult process, since many of the early pieces are not online ... Jessica Mitford’s “The Undertaker’s Racket.” An investigation of the funeral industry in the United States ... ....

Collection of Elvis-loving Duchess of Devonshire up for sale

Edit Tampa Bay Online 26 Feb 2016
LONDON (AP) — Possessions of a poultry-raising aristocrat who ran Britain's grandest stately home, was friends with John F ... Known as "Debo," the duchess was the youngest of the six witty, unconventional Mitford sisters who captured Britain's imagination during the 1930s ... The siblings included novelist and historian Nancy Mitford and writer and social activist Jessica Mitford ... — "Loved One" was the Mitfords' nickname for the president ... ....

David Astor: a king in the golden age of print

Edit The Guardian 07 Feb 2016
The author of a new biography recalls some of Astor’s achievements. • Click here to read an extract on Astor’s lifelong interest in psychoanalysis ... Twitter ... Jessica Mitford was outraged by “the meagreness of the loaf” received by Philip Toynbee; Astor tended to assume that his writers had private incomes and was amazed to learn that many of them were paying mortgages (“Do you mean to say that most of my staff are living in debt?”) ... ....

Motivating Younger Women Voters

Edit Alternet 25 Jan 2016
To some, shattering the ‘hardest glass ceiling’ doesn’t seem so revolutionary any more. Others, like Lena Dunham, aim to help bridge a generational divide ... “That’s just a fact.” ... “Bernie really understands systemic oppression ... With Sanders on her heels in both Iowa and New Hampshire, any day now I expect her to talk about the summer she worked at an Oakland law firm whose lead partner was a former Communist married to Jessica Mitford....

Recommendations from Rakestraw Books

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 Jan 2016
Recommendations of recent books from the staffs of a rotating list of Bay Area independent bookstores ... Before she was a committed communist and a muckraking journalist, Jessica Mitford was one of the younger daughters of a wildly eccentric English earl ... ....

David Bowie's list of 100 favorite books reveal his true inner nerd

Edit Mashable 11 Jan 2016
We all know David Bowie as a music and pop culture icon. But if you are hoping looking for a crash course in must-read literature, look no further than Bowie's 100 favorite books. Bowie's list is as dynamic and diverse as the Space Oddity star himself ... See also. 15 unforgettable David Bowie appearances from TV and film ... Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester ... Iliad by Homer ... Mr ... Hall ... D ... The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford ... ....

Remembering David Bowie through his 100 favorite books

Edit The Los Angeles Times 11 Jan 2016
Although David Bowie was best known for his music, he also made countless contributions to the worlds of art, fashion and film. But the singer, who died Sunday, was also devoted to literature. In 2013, Bowie left the world something other than his groundbreaking albums to remember him by — a list of his 100 favorite books ... He selected books about art (Arthur C ... D ... "The American Way Of Death" by Jessica Mitford ... ....

11 Fascinating Books to Help Us Talk About Death and Dying

Edit Huffington Post 29 Oct 2015
By Allison Tyler . Off the Shelf. Death. It happens to everyone ...  . Stiff by Mary Roach ... Read the review here.   ...  . The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford. In 1963, Jessica Mitford pulled back the shroud and boldly threw open the heavy doors on the funeral industry, giving Americans, and the rest of the world, the raw truth of how our country deals with its dead--and how we might do better in the future ...   ... ....

How To Die Green

Edit Huffington Post 28 Oct 2015
Living green has been hip for some time. But now dying green is also catching on ... They also assess burial facilities' efforts to preserve natural landscapes ... But isn't death the ultimate carbon footprint negator? ... In her 1963 book, The American Way of Death, author and investigative journalist Jessica Mitford wrote extensively about the death care industry and funeral directors' erroneous claim that embalming protects public health ... ....

The Books That Shaped Them (University of Kentucky)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2015
With regard to nonfiction writing, the most important books include Jessica Mitford's 'The American Way of Death,' a brilliant exposé of the funeral industry, published in 1963 and still unsurpassed as a model of muckraking; and Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Fear of Falling' (1990), which manages to be as insightful about the American status hierarchy as ......

10 books every woman must read

Edit The Times of India 29 Sep 2015
Here's a list of 10 books that every woman must read. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf ... No Logo by Naomi Klein ... Our Bodies, Ourselves ... The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ... Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford. An autobiography of Mitford's upbringing in an eccentric and very unusual aristocratic family at a time of upheaval in Europe (the 1930s) ... ....

A Grave Injustice to Religious and Economic Liberty in New Jersey

Edit Huffington Post 31 Aug 2015
Since the Third Century, Christians have primarily buried their dead in churchyards and cemeteries owned by the parish or church that they attended. The Roman Catholic Church has therefore been in the "cemetery business" for over 1,700 years ... Belief in the resurrection of the dead is a key Christian doctrine. In 1 Corinthians 15 it says. ... The law states that. ... I can't even imagine what Jessica Mitford would have to say about this one ... ....
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