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Fredrik’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Fredrik’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Fredrik deBoer
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my debut novel
I'm thrilled to say that my debut novel, titled The Mind Reels, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2025. It's the story of a young woman, new to college, as she slowly loses her mind.
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| When I first read this, the year after it came out, I took it as a slice of life - a kind of life that had little or nothing to do with my own. At the time, I had just started grad school, and was in the midst of rescuing myself from one of the darke ...more | |
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| Yep, it's Mukherjee - a relentlessly interesting and approachable work of panoramic nonfiction that's sometimes a little reductive, as all pop nonfiction of this scale will inevitably be. Starting one of his books has this pleasant quality of wanderi ...more | |
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Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough:
"I read this in 2013, having wanted to read it ever since it was published in 2010. I imagined it would form a Trifecta of Awesome with Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage and Wendy Plump's Vow: A Memoir of Marriage, bot"
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| This book possesses two essential virtues that are hard to find: a truly comprehensive research commitment and genuine authorial bravery. It's insane, to me, that I have to feel like a book like this is brave - once upon a time, it was widely underst ...more | |
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| A workmanlike and accessible overview of Dr. Hart's ideas, which are good ideas. The fundamental point that even "hard" drugs like heroin and cocaine are less dangerous and addictive than presumed to be by society writ large, even among progressives, ...more | |
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| I'm not a Wurtzel apologist, I'm a Wurtzel defender, and her work is worth defending. What she was attempting in Prozac Nation is far more nuanced and self-aware than almost anyone (including Goodreads reviewers) wanted to give her credit for. She wa ...more | |
"I read a couple of reviews on goodreads for this book and had to laugh at some of those who felt the book was whiney and written by a rich guy who could afford a super farmhouse with a pool no less! One review said that Mayle went back to England to "
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| This book is exactly what it needs to be if you take it as it is intended to be taken. It's a series of aphorisms, like those written by Pascal, which revolve around a central theme of the distance between experience and the observation of experience ...more | |
“It’s a bitter irony of contemporary American life: it is in our most progressive spaces that we see the most social inequality. As the urban sociologist Richard Florida has demonstrated, those cities that are the most liberal—New York, San Francisco, Austin—also are home to the greatest income inequality and wealth segregation.”
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
“The concept of the end of policing and prisons was not new in 2020. There have been leftists advocating for police and prison abolition for as long as I’ve been politically conscious. Activists demanding the abolition of police had a large corpus of theoretical writing to draw from. But there was usually a key difference between the older school of police and prison abolition and the demands of the most impassioned days of 2020: the former almost always imagined that a world without formal policing would emerge only after other society-altering changes had taken place. Typically, this was defined as the fall of capitalism and the establishment of some sort of socialist system, a system without poverty and deprivation. In other words, the radicals I knew might imagine the end of the police, but they imagined that end would come after the revolution. To debate the concept in 2020 was to skip a lot of steps. This was a general issue in the first year after Floyd’s murder, a sense that people wanted to dodge the hard work that would have been necessary before society-altering changes could take place. In part because of the extremely low odds of success for a police abolition movement, many who supported defunding the police insisted that the intent had never been to abolish the police at all. In this telling, “defund the police” means reducing the budgets of police departments, drawing down their resources, and redirecting some of those funds to other uses,”
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.”
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
― How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
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“The scene before her flattened, lost one of its dimensions, and the noise dribbled irrelevantly down its face. Something was coming. This moment, this very experience of it, seemed only the thinnest gauze. She sat in the audience thinking--someone here has cancer, someone has a broken heart, someone's soul is lost, someone feels naked and foreign, thinks they once knew the way but can't remember the way, feels stripped of armor and alone, there are people in this audience with broken bones, others whose bones will break sooner or later, people who've ruined their health, worshipped their own lives, spat on their dreams, turned their backs on their true beliefs, yes, yes, and all will be saved. All will be saved. All will be saved.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
