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

 

A Russian Journalist Who Stayed Behind

As the war escalates, real reporting from within Putin’s circle has become nearly impossible. By David Remnick for ‘The New Yorker’: 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-russian-journalist-who-stayed-behind

 

I’m reading this now. I bought it before any Ukrainians were in dire trouble and heading to Poland. It’s written by a Polish writer. It was written in Polish. Translated. She won the Nobel Prize a couple years ago. 

 

HOW RUSSIA’S NOBEL-WINNING NEWSPAPER IS COVERING UKRAINE

‘We continue to call war war,’ Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. ‘We are waiting for the consequences.’

   https://apple.news/ABwXfSc3KQr2KcLIVrHkafw