As we have in the past, the Network will power down over the summer months. We won’t resume our monthly meeting schedule until September. Meanwhile, we have extra time to read and ruminate. Got me wondering what you have on your reading list. If you have a good book or magazine to recommend, let’s hear about it.
The magazines I subscribe to include Harper’s, The Nation, Ms. (although it is a shadow of its former glorious self) and Yoga Journal. For daily news, I get The State, read the BBC online and listen to NPR. And I sometimes listen to Rush, just to keep my hackles up.
So how ’bout you? Got anything to recommend?
Becci Robbins
I’m reading “God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome-Then and Now” by John Dominic Crossan, a study of how Jesus opposed the Roman “peace through violence” with “peace through justice”. Next up will be Noam Chomsky’s “Hegemony or Survival-America’s Quest for Global Dominance”. I also find “The Nation” indespensible.
Hi, Bex. Don’t know if you remember me but I used to write for *Point* back in the day…”Notes from the Far East Desk”…okay, didn’t think so….
Anyhoo, I’ve just finished Joe Bageant’s *Deer Hunting With Jesus. It’s the most important socio-political work anyone is going to read anywhere outside of the man’s own Web site (www.joebageant.com). Bageant’s study of actual working people in the South (the original title was *Drink Pray Fight & Fuck*) is especially useful to those Southern progressives who ordinarily shy away from the very people we (yes, me, too) should try to establish some solidarity with.
For pure entertainment and the knowledge you’re supporting a fellow Southern lefty author, read James Robert Smith’s thriller *The Flock.* Both books are available at Amazon.
Have a great summer!
Wow! Great to hear from you again. Of course I remember you, one of my very favorite POINT writers of all time. I adored your essays, but I also loved getting email from you – chatty, funny, outrageous commentary about the world in general and your life in particular.
(For a taste of this man’s work, see one of his POINT pieces Whistling Dixie.)
Hope you’ll make a habit of stopping by. I’ve missed you!
And thanks for the book recommendations. I’ll check them out.