by Richard Subber | Mar 21, 2022 | Book reviews, Books, History, Politics
Ignorance was bliss for a while…
Book review:
The Future of News:
Television,
Newspapers,
Wire Services,
Newsmagazines
Philip Cook, Douglas Comery, Lawrence Lichty, eds.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
Yes, The Future of News invites instant comparison with ancient news.
Neither the editors nor the contributors mention the internet or the World Wide Web or blogs or social media. Who knew in 1992?
Note: on April 30,1993, a computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee announced he had completed the source code for the world’s first web browser: WorldWideWeb.
Be prepared to feel sympathetic when you read the repeated optimistic assessments of the trends and possible futures of the news as we used to know it more than 30 years ago.
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Will the last monkey cry?
the new reality…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Mar 16, 2022 | American history, Books, History, Joys of reading
the new railroads carried books west…
Book review:
Literary Publishing in America: 1790-1850
by William Charvat
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959
William Charvat offers, probably, more appealing detail than you ever imagined about American novels, short stories, and poems around the turn of the 19th century.
Writing was then, as it is now, a tough business for writers and publishers. Literary Publishing in America confirms that most writers didn’t get rich, and more than a few publishers managed to turn a really good buck.
In America, the market-expanding extension of railroads westward from the east coast had a lot to do with publishing success and the evolution of American reading taste.
Hint: the inland readers largely went for the romance-based novels, trashy and otherwise.
Hint: poetry has always been a tough slog for poets—ain’t much money in it.
Hint: history, and a historical context, were significantly important in the formation of the reading public’s taste for fiction.
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Book review:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
from the agile mind
of Arthur Conan Doyle
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Mar 4, 2022 | Human Nature, Tidbits
every man’s “spirit within him”
“It is required of every man,
that the spirit within him
should walk abroad among his fellow-men.”
spoken by Jacob Marley, in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch tells his young daughter, Scout, why he is defending Tom Robinson, “a Negro” who is falsely accused of raping a white woman: “…if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town.”
I think that Jacob and Atticus forgot that men and women have to want to “walk abroad” among their fellows, and they have to want to hold up their heads for the sake of dignity and goodness and fairness.
Really, I think not enough people want to walk that way.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2022 All rights reserved.
Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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