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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

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    Reality TV doesn't get a lot of respect, which makes this book a really interesting take on it. Nussbaum treats reality TV like a tr...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

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    This was a great book. I'm a little busy these days and having trouble dedicating the mental energy to this post that it deserves, b...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan

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    The Gutenberg Galaxy  is a classic in the study of the media or communication, but for being a book about communication it was really ha...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, translated by J.A. Underwood

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    I don't usually include essays on here, but I read this as a way to kick off a unit on media studies. It was a little tough to under...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing them by Bud Allen and Diana Bosta

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    This was a pretty interesting book all about lessons that should be learned if you are ever going to work in a prison. I don't plan ...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

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    Bloodlands  is an important book, and Timothy Snyder obviously knew it was important when he was writing it. The book contextualizes the...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Un verdor terrible por Benjamín Labatut

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    Un verdor terrible explora la historia de la ciencia y como se alterna en sus capacidades de promover y extinguir la vida. Labatut muest...