Getting a Grip: Frances Moore Lappe interview
One of Identity Theory's favorite activists, Frances Moore Lappé, talks about her new book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad.
Ralph Nader Attacks Democrats For Not Being Named Ralph Nader
Amidst the nearly unprecedented interest in the Democratic primaries and an unusually high satisfaction with the remaining left-wing presidential hopefuls, Ralph Nader sees something very wrong. The problem: None of the candidates are named Ralph Nader.Nader, who turns 74 later this month, apparently views the whopping 0.3% of the vote he earned in the 2004 …
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Charles Baxter (The Soul Thief) on the Bat Segundo Show
"Cities have become museums of what it was they once made... If you go down to where I live, you go down to the Mississippi River, you'll see grain mills that once were there. You will see the Mill City Museum. What you will see is a simulacrum--another pretentious word--of what was once there and …
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Yes, you (we) can: Identity Theory endorses Obama
We at Identity Theory are excited to finally--for the first time in our lives--have a major-party presidential candidate who is truly presidential. A candidate who, for once, runs a dignified campaign brimming with inspiration rather than desperation. A candidate whom we trust to make wise decisions based on moral courage rather than rapacious greed. A …
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Obama’s Campaign More than "Just Words"
Obama shows again why he is far and away the best major-party presidential candidate America has produced in the past 40 years.
Pulp Masters, Cultural Amnesia, Bob Dylan
It must be from all those old film noirs I'm obsessed with--Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Out of the Past, and the like. Or maybe it stems from my love of Faulkner's Sanctuary, which I read as an undergrad and never let go of. Hence, now I'm in the middle of Pulp Masters, …
An Off-Kilter Liveliness: 12 Questions with David Leavitt
Leavitt's latest novel is The Indian Clerk, a work of historical fiction about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan that, according to The New Yorker, demonstrates “how the most meaningful relationships can defy both logic and imagination.”
IDT Staff Reading Lists: February ’08
Matt Borondy: Felicia Sullivan's The Sky isn't Visible from Here; The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel; and three random picks from the Burlington library (I just got a library card for the first time in five years): How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen, Back on the Fire by Gary Snyder, and The Best American …
January Staff Reading: Addendum
More IDT staffers chime in with their January reading lists...Mara Naselli: My reading life is chaos. There are books everywhere around the apartment, stacked, splayed open, or just scattered about. I'm reading Feasts and Riot for a freelance project I'm working on, and have at some time or another opened Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol …
Staff Reading: January
A quick rundown of what some Identity Theory staffers are digging into this month...Drew McNaughton: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, The Brightening Glance: Children and Imagination by Ellen Handler Spitz, The New Kings: Nonfiction edited by Ira GlassRobert Birnbaum: The Song Before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright, Wrack and Ruin by Don Lee, …