Blinks: Marlon James; Karen Tompson Walker

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» NY Times Book Review: Michiko Kakutani reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf

» Also, S. Kirk Walsh reviews Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers

» Time Magazine: How Marlon James Built a New World in His ‘African Game of Thrones‘

Lift Up the Receiver, I’ll Make You a Believer: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss The Black Phone

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Finney and Gwen (Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw) are siblings in 1978 Colorado. Finney is a shy boy who wants to be tougher than he is, including wishing he had the nerve to get between his tougher younger sister and their physically and mentally abusive alcoholic father. The kids have to navigate their relationship to each other while dealing with bullies at school and the potential psychic abilities Gwen seems

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Cory Doctorow: The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots

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In 1972, a group of researchers funded by the Volkswagen Foundation published a seismic book called Limits to Growth, which used the most sophisticated techniques of the day to model the planet Earth and project its future. The book’s authors were trying to figure out how rosy a future the world’s poor could count on: would they some day enjoy the cars and refrigerators and other benefits of the industrialized,