What We Do Now » Melville House Books
We’re heartbroken. We’re excited. We’re energized. We’re scared. We’re confident that books can help—and this one in particular.
What We Do Now features essays on activism from twenty-seven leading progressives, including Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, George Saunders, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, Cornell William Brooks, Dave Eggers, and Paul Krugman.
It’s out on January 17th, just three days before Trump’s inauguration.
Pre-order it today. And get ready.
High school teacher on leave after comparing Trump to Hitler » MobyLives
A teacher made a historically accurate comparison of Donald Trump and Hitler—and then was forced to go on administrative leave.
Fuck.
How to listen to music in a country you do not recognize » MobyLives
Some notes (and a playlist!) toward listening to music in Trump’s America
Here’s an idea --- let’s NOT normalize Donald Trump » MobyLives
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP
So: I’m in the dark, in mid-air. Like everyone else in America, tonight. The plane’s path is stitching together all those big central states. All those Trump states; the land we call “flyover country,” even though it’s most of the country. When I look down, I see nothing; no cities means no light. I can’t tell you how it feels, or looks, what the mythology of the land is, what the assumptions there are. I can’t give you a portrait, the way I might if I’d breathed the air, drank the water. It’s just a void, a black blank slate, for miles. It will stay that way until tomorrow, until those states, and all the others, write the history of the world.
—Sady Doyle, on “flyover” country and the future of democracy
On sale today: These are the Names by Tommy Wieringa » MobyLives
These are the Names, the “quiet masterpiece” of refugees and a small-town policeman by Tommy Wieringa, is out today.
Read this excerpt. Go vote. Reward yourself by heading to the bookstore.