The Friday
Summer titles, non-fiction Master Class, useful data on the book market, a classic, tribute to a great English lit. teacher, literary history, investigative journalism, and healing through art
It is with heart-felt gratitude that I thank each and every subscriber for making Fridays a success. Here are this week’s picks, and feel free to share your own. I’m off to enjoy the weekend!
The Millions — most anticipated book titles, summer 2024: https://themillions.com/2024/07/most-anticipated-the-great-summer-2024-preview.html
The meat of the Reedsy class starts at about minute 4:00:
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelly (married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley). Today we are still wrestling with the issues it raises.
Healing through art & reflection:
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb’s Unlimited Hangout: https://unlimitedhangout.com/ — you will learn so many things you didn’t know about our world. For example, that Jeffrey Epstein was Bill & Hill Clinton’s fundraiser for the DNC who plunged them into campaign finance scandal in the 1990s, and what this has to do with Vince Foster, and First Lady Hillary Clinton selling nuclear secrets to Israel(!), and a huge payoff that Foster rejected right before he was found dead.
This two-part series is the real history of the people who have deluded themselves into believing they are Semitic, even though they are not. They were forced into converting to one of the 3 Abrahamic religions by the Czar, and chose Judaism:
What advice do you wish you had received when you first started your literary career?
What advice would have benefited you? For me, I wish I’d pushed myself much harder. Unfortunately, the first creative writing class I took, while very high quality, was part of the notorious Endless Rewrite Contingent and it took a while to break out of that self-absorbed habit. Instead of being so inward looking, it pays to ke…