Hope in the dark by rebecca solnit5/24/2023 ![]() Solnit’s book is a manifesto for hope in place of the despair that engulfs many activists when their campaigns to make the world a better place or safeguard local values from globalized corporations do not bear immediate fruit. The foreword for this edition doesn’t include page numbers, so citations from the foreword reference an e-book location number instead. ![]() ![]() This study guide uses the Kindle e-book edition published by Canongate Books in 2016. The resurgent popularity of Solnit’s book proves her own argument in Hope in the Dark that writing is an “act of faith” (64) because writers can’t be sure of how and when their words will land. The book gained renewed popularity after the 2016 election of Donald Trump when New York Times journalist Alice Gregory linked to a download of the book on Facebook. In 2005, Guardian reviewer and Green Party leader Caroline Lucas praised Hope in the Dark for helping remind people of the good that activism can achieve but criticized Solnit’s scholastic rigor. ![]() The original 2004 edition had modest critical success. ![]()
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Up Front by Bill Mauldin is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. ![]() The last train to memphis5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() His two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley in 1994, followed by Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley in 1999, placed the story of Presley's career into a rise and fall arc. ![]() Mona Dickson, writing in MIT's The Tech (May 13, 1964) gave Almost Grown a favorable review. Guralnick's first two books, Almost Grown (1964) and Mister Downchild (1967), were collections of short stories published by the Larry Stark Press, a small press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, devoted to stories and poems. 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