How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism (excerpted from the new book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury)

https://lithub.com/how-the-vietnam-war-accelerated-generational-divides-in-america/

The best books on street photography in 2023

Get advice and inspiration from our selection of the best books on street photography that are currently in print

https://apple.news/AFYa71XTiR-Gi3Fo0cy4Y9Q

 

Interviewer: ''Are you hard on people in your songs because you want to torment them? Or to change their lives and make them know themselves?"

Bob Dylan replied while laughing: "I want to needle them.''

 

‘I Really Want to Write the Books I Want to Write Before I Die’: Zadie Smith Is Back With an Epic—And Emotional—New Novel (from ‘Vogue’):

https://apple.news/AmHpSg26nRS2koLr2K35grQ

               Write as if you were dying, Annie Dillard once said.

 

I WASN’T ON CHAMBERS STREET holding the sign after Monday last week. I went by Lucky Star bus from Canal Street in Chinatown to Boston. My sister’s daughter was getting married. Boston was good; wedding was even better. The reception was in the Boston Public Library. A spectacular building. I’ll be on Chambers Street Monday again. 

 

Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers

Despite recent stories about the popularity of BookTok, Neilsen’s survey found more of those aged between 14-25 searched YouTube for new reads

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/07/report-finds-youtube-more-popular-than-tiktok-for-young-book-buyers