How book lovers on TikTok are 

changing the publishing industry

The book industry had a banner year in 2021 thanks, in large part, to TikTok.

https://apple.news/Ac-xh--KUR9yELT9i0ruSAg

Ted Cruz gave the nation a lesson on misreading kids books. This was in the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/03/23/ted-cruz-ketanji-brown-jackson-books/

 

The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown

(a ‘New Yorker’ piece): Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-russians-fleeing-putins-wartime-crackdown

 

March 19, 1962: Dylan releases his first album, ‘Bob Dylan’, on Columbia Records. The album is considered a failure, selling very few copies.

 

Why We Should Read Hannah Arendt Now

The Origins of Totalitarianism has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism. From ‘The Atlantic’: 

https://apple.news/Aapejkkj4RES7CrGLsQiajA

 

GREAT piece. See if you can get it at nymag.com

 

Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men. From ‘The Guardian’:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/jack-kerouac-still-roadworthy-after-100-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other