#Doris Coll

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The Killer Is One of 13

directed by Javier Aguirre, 1973

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This seems really important

List of reported  and confirmed Warner Home Video DVDs that have rotted:

Box Sets and Series:

4 film favorites: Hugh Grant

4 Film Favorites: King of Horror- The Dreamcatcher side of Disc 1 doesn't load in any player. That side of the disc has become discolored.

4 Film Favorites: Lethal Weapon

4 Film Favorites: Urban Action (Black Belt Jones, Hot Potato, Black Samson, Three the Hard Way) - Hot Potato freezes at layer chagne

Adventures of Superman: The Complete Fifth & Sixth Seasons - Disc 2 (2U / L907)

Alfred Hitchcock - The Signature Collection-All these discs fail at the layer change:- Foreign Correspondent- Strangers on a Train: Two-Disc Special Edition (both discs)- Stage Fright- Suspicion- The Wrong Man

Animaniacs Seasons

Astaire and Rogers Collection Vol 1 and 2 and complete set

Barbara Stanwyck Signature Collection

Batman - The Complete Animated Series- Volume 2, Disc 3 starts skipping at episode 5.- Volume 3, Disc 2 doesn't play the last episode.

Bette Davis Collection Vol 1

Bette Davis Collection Vol 2

Bette Davis Collection Vol 3

Blade Runner 4 Disc Collector’s Edition-Disc 1,2 and 4

Burt Lancaster Signature Collection

Busby Berkeley Collection Vol 1

Busby Berkeley Collection Vol 2

Buster Keaton TCM Archives collection

Cary Grant Signature Collection

Clark Gable Signature Collection

Classic Comedies Collection

Classic Comedy Teams Collection

Classic Musicals From the Dream Factory Vol 2

Classic Musicals From the Dream Factory Vol 3

Cult Camp Classics Volumes

Dallas-multiple seasons

Doris Day Collection Vol 2

Dukes of Hazzard - Multiple Seasons

Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton collection

Elvis Presley [Deluxe 2-Volume] (10-Disc Set)

Errol Flynn Signature Collection Vol 2

Errol Flynn TCM Spotlight WWII Adventures

Esther Williams Collection Vol 1

Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 3

Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 4

Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 5

Forbidden Hollywood Vol 1

Forbidden Hollywood Vol 2

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Friends: Season 3, Disc 1,Season 6, Discs 1, 3, and 4

F-Troop Season 2

Gary Cooper Signature Collection

Greta Garbo Signature Collection

Henrik Ibsen Collection- The Master Builder and The Lady From The Sea will not play.

Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection Vol 2

James Cagney Signature collection

James Stewart Signature Collection

Joan Crawford Collection Vol 1 and 2

John Ford and John Wayne Collection

John Ford Collection

Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection

Katharine Hepburn Collection

Legends of Horror Collection-all discs rot.

Literary Classics Collection 

Lois & Clark - The Complete Fourth Season: Disc 4 freezes at episode 3 on one player and read as invalid on another.

Looney Tunes Gold Coll 5 - Disc 2,Disc 4

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 2: Disc 3

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4 - all four discs have rotted

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5 - all four discs have rotted

Lucille Ball Film Collection

Man From Uncle Complete Series: Season 2 Disc 6

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection- TCM reissue pack is okay

Motion Picture Masterpieces Collection

Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection TCM Spotlight

Nancy Drew Movie Mystery Collection

One Tree Hill

Paul Newman Collection

Pinky and the Brain seasons

Popeye Volumes

Powerpuff Girls Complete Series

Rooney & Garland Collection

Sam Peckinpah Collection

Shakespeare Collection

SilverHawks Volume One - Disc 4 (2U / L906)

Smallville - The Complete Sixth Season: Disc 2 skips and freezes. Discs 3 and 4 only play the first two episodes on one player and read as invalid on another.

Spawn: The Animated Collection - 10th Anniversary Signature Edition (Steelbook)- Disc 1 freezes and skips over the opening eight minutes of the first episode.

Stanley Kubrick - Warner Home Video Director's Series

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - Disc 2 (60, L387)

Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition Tin-multiple films and extras no longer play. Some discs completely rotted.

Superman: The Theatrical Serials Collection: Disc 4

Supernatural (Season 2), some episodes on discs 4 & 5 won't play

Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Fifth Season: Disc 1, Disc 2 froze before the end of the last episode on one player and read as invalid on another.

Tales from the Crypt - The Complete First Season: Disc 1 doesn't play.

Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Sixth Season: Disc 1 & 2 won't play some of the episodes. At least three are inaccessible.

Tarzan Collection Vol 2

TCM Archives Laurel and Hardy Collection - both discs rotted

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection - Horror

Tennessee Williams collection

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection - both discs rotted

The All-New Super Friends Hour Volume One - Disc 1 (2U / L908), Disc 2 (2U / L907)

The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection

The Cult Camp collection

The Exorcist - The Complete Anthology- Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist fails at the layer change.

The Flash: The Complete Original Series - Disc 2 (2U / L907), Disc 6 (2U / L907)

The John Wayne Collection

The Sopranos

The Twisted Terror collection

The West Wing-Multiple Seasons

Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 2: Discs 1 and 2

Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 3: Disc 1

Tough Guys Collection-reissued as Gangsters Volume 2

Twisted Terror Collection

Vacation/European Vacation- Comedy Double Feature release

Val Lewton Collection-I Walked With A Zombie / The Body Snatcher, The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars - The Complete Second Season

Veronica Mars - The Complete Third Season

Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 1

Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 2

Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 3

Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 4

Individual Titles (Boxsets listed if originally released as part of a set): 

2001: A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series

30 Seconds to Tokyo

A Clockwork Orange-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series

A Free Soul/Divorcee-A free Soul rotted-Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Shakespeare collection and standalone

A Nightmare on Elm Street - Infinifilm Edition

A Slight Case of Murder-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2

Across the Pacific-Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection - Volume 2

Act of Violence /Mystery Street (Only Plays Mystery Street) Film Noir v4

Action in the North Atlantic-Bogart Signature Collection v2

Adventures of Don Juan-Errol Flynn SC V2

Air Force

All This and Heaven Too

Angels in the Outfield (1951)

Arsenic and Old Lace-snapper case

Austin Powers in Goldmember (Infinifilm Series)

Babes In Arms- Rooney & Garland Coll

Babes on Broadway- Rooney & Garland Coll

Bathing Beauty-Esther Williams Vol. 1

Best Foot Forward

Billy Budd-Literary Classics Coll 

Black Legion-Gangsters V3

Blade Runner- 4 disc collector’s edition

Bombers B-52

Boom Town

Born to Dance

Bringing Up Baby-Classic Comedies Collection

Broadway 1936

Brother Orchid-Gangsters v4

Bullets or Ballots-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2

By the Light of the Silvery Moon-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Captain Blood-Errol Flynn SC V1

Captain Horatio Hornblower-Literary Classics Coll

Captain of the Clouds-James Cagney Signature Collection

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-Tennessee Williams collection

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory SE

City for Conquest-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2

Command Decision

Crime Wave/Decoy-Film Noir V4

Critic’s Choice

Cruising

Damn Yankees

Dance Girl Dance

Dangerous When Wet-Esther Williams, Vol. 1

Dark Passage

David Copperfield-Motion Picture Masterpieces 

Decoy-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4

Deep in My Heart-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3

Desperate Journey-Errol Flynn TCM WWII Adventures

Destination Tokyo-The Cary Grant Signature Collection

Dinner at Eight-Standalone copy

Dive Bomber-Errol Flynn SC V2

Dog Day Afternoon SE

Dr. X/Mask of Fu Manchu-Legends of Horror

Dragon Seed-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll

Droopy

Du Barry Was a Lady 

Each Dawn I Die-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2

East of Eden SE

East Side West Side 

Eight Legged Freaks

Evelyn Prentice-Powell and Loy TCM Collection

Executive Suite-Barbara Stanwyck Signature Collection

Eyes Wide Shut-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series

Female/Three on a Match-Forbidden Hollywood v2

Firecreek-James Stewart Signature collection

Flamingo Road-Joan Crawford V2

Flying Down to Rio (Astaire/Rogers Collection)

Fort Apache

Friendly Persuasion

G Men-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2

Garbo Silents Collection-Garbo Signature Collection

Gentleman Jim-Errol Flynn Signature Collection V2

Girl Crazy-Rooney & Garland Coll

Gold Raiders/Meet the Baron double feature

Hairspray SE

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix SE

High Sierra

His Kind of Woman-Noir V3

His Majesty O'Keefe-Burt Lancaster Signature Collection

Hit the Deck-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3

I Love You Again (Loy/Powell collection)

I'll See You in My Dreams-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Illegal / The Big Steal (only plays Illegal)-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4

In This Our Life-Bette Davis collection v2

Invisible Stripes-Gangsters V4

Jeopardy-Barbara Stanwyck: The Signature Collection

Jailhouse Rock Remastered (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Elvis Presley 10 Film Set

John Carpenter’s Someone is Watching Me

Julius Caesar

Kismet-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3

Lady Be Good- Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3

Lady Killer-Gangsters V3

Land of the Pharaohs-Cult Camp Classics v1

Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol 1 disc 1 & vol 5 disc 4

Love Crazy-Powell and Loy TCM Collection

Lucky Me-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Madame Bovary-Literary Classics Coll 

Manhattan Melodrama-Powell and Loy TCM Collection

Meet the Baron/Gold Raiders-Gold Raiders won’t play

Mogambo-Clark Gable SC

Mr. Skeffington-Bette Davis collection v1

My Dream Is Yours-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Mystery Street-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4

Neptune's Daughter-Esther Williams, Vol. 1

Night and Day-The Cary Grant Signature Collection

Night of the Iguana

Ninotchka-Garbo Signature Collection

Nothing But Trouble-Classic Comedy Teams Collection

Lucky Man

On An Island With You-Esther Williams V1

On Moonlight Bay-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Operation Crossbow

Othello-Shakespeare Coll

Passage to Marseille-Bogart Signature Coll V2 

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid SE-Peckinpah Collection

The Wild Bunch 2 disc SE-Peckinpah collection

Personal Best

Popeye

Popeye vol 1 discs 1 & 4

Presenting Lily Mars

Pride and Prejudice-Motion Pic Masterpieces

Prince of The City

Rebel Without a Cause

Red-Headed Woman-TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 1

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Reunion in France

Rio Bravo

Roberta-Astaire Rogers coll

Romance on the High Seas-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2

Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare coll

Royal Wedding-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2

Sadie McKee-Joan Crawford V2

Shawshank Redemption SE

Shoot the Moon-Rooney and Garland coll

Side Street-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4

Splendor in the Grass-snapper

Story of Vernon and Irene Castle-Astaire and Rogers

Straight Time

Streetcar Named Desire

Strike Up the Band-Rooney and Garland Collection

Superman the Movie [Four Disc Edition]

Superman II [2 Disc Deluxe Edition]

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Superman III (Deluxe Edition)

Superman IV-deluxe reissue

Superman Returns

Tarzan’s Desert Mystery-Tarzan collection v2

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Unrated)

That Midnight Kiss-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2

That’s Entertainment 3

That's Dancing-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2

The Big Cube

The Big Steal-Film Noir v4

The Charge of the Light Brigade-Errol Flynn SC V2

The Clock (1945)

The Comedians-Taylor-Burton collection

The Corn is Green-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll

The Dawn Patrol-Errol Flynn SC V2

The Devil Doll/Return of Dr. X-Legends of Horror Collection

The Divorce-Forbidden Hollywood V2

The Fighting 69th-James Cagney Signature collection

The Flintstones

The Fountainhead-individual and Gary Cooper Signature Collection

The Golden Compass SE

The Great Lie

The Great Ziegfeld

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Hill-WWII collection

The Informer-John Ford collection

The Jazz Singer-2007 release

The Little Giant-Gangsters v4

The Live By Night/Side Street-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4

The Maltese Falcon 3-disc SE and Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection - Volume 2

The Man Who Came to Dinner-Bette Davis collection

The Naked Spur-James Stewart Signature Collection

The Old Maid-Bette Davis V3

The Pirate-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2

The Prince and the Pauper-snapper case

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex-Errol Flynn SC v1

The Prodigal

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 

The Stratton Story-James Stewart SC

The Three Musketeers-Literary Classics Coll

The Toast of New Orleans-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2

The West Point Story-James Cagney Signature Collection

The Wreck of the Mary Deare-Gary Cooper SC

The Yakuza-Robert Mitchum SC

There Was A Crooked Man

They Died With Their Boots On-Errol Flynn SC v1

They Live By Night-Side Street-Film Noir v4

Three Little Words

To Please a Lady/Jeopardy-Jeopardy does not play. Barbara Stanwyck SC

Torch Song-Joan Crawford V2

Treasure Island

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Undercurrent-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll

Vacation/European Vacation Comedy Double Feature release

Wally Gator

Watch on the Rhine-Bette Davis collection V3

Waterloo Bridge-TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 1

West Point Story-James Cagney Signature collection

Where Danger Lives/Tension-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SE-Taylor Burton Collection

Without Love-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll

Wizard of Oz- 2 disc SE

Wonder Woman

Words and Music-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2

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Read in 2023

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes: ★★✩✩✩ (HUGE disappointment)

Babel by R. F. Kuang: ★★★★★ (HUGE recommend)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: ★★★★✩  

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron: ★★★★✩

Pet by Akwae Emenzi: ★★★★★

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick: ★★★★✩

The Deep by Rivers Solomon: ★★★★★ (big recommend!)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: ★★★★★

Nevada by Imogen Binnie: ★★★★✩

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (re-read): ★★★★✩

Das Känguru Manifest by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩  

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee: ★★★★✩  

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi: ★★★★✩  

Peter Darling by Austin Chant: ★★★★✩  

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty: ★★★★½

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: ★★★★★

Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha: ★★★½✩

Dschinns by Fatma Ayedemir: ★★★★★

Blutbuch by Kim De L’Horizon: ★★★★✩  

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang: ★★½✩✩

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall: ★★★★✩

Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: ★★★★✩

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard: ★★★½✩

Der Duft der Sterne by Simon Klemp: (can’t fairly rate, a friend of mine is the author)

The Binding by Bridget Colling: ★★★★½

In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★½

Non-fiction:

Von hier aus gesehen by Celestine Hassenfratz, Anna Luise Rother, & Ulla Scharfenberg: ★★★★½

Behindert und Stolz by Luisa L’Audace: ★★★★½   

Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit by Gianni Jovanovic mit Oyindamola Alashe: ★★★★✩  

Radikale Selbstfürsorge jetzt! by Svenja Gräfen: ★★★✩✩  

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Your Homeland is Our Nightmare) by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: ★★★★★  

Bad Gays. A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller:

Unlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland and Silvie Horch (eds.): ★★★★✩

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel: ★★★★✩

Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay: ★★★✩✩

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: ★★★★✩

Lieber Jonas oder Der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung by Linus Giese: ★★★★✩

Gender. A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele: ★★½✩✩

Hood Feminism by Mikkie Kendall: ★★★★★  

Let’s Talk About Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid: ★★★★★  

Wie kann ich was bewegen? by Raúl Krauthausen & Benjamin Schwarz: (stopped bc it made me unhappy)

Caliban and the Witch by (not finished yet)

NichtMutterSein by Nadine Pungs: ★★★½✩

Desintegriert euch! by Max Czollek: ★★★★✩

Pageboy by Elliot Page: ★★★★★  

Hass by Şeyda Kurt: ★★★★½

Die stille Gewalt by Asha Hedayati: ★★★★★  

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats by Margarete Stochowski: ★★★★½

Identitätskrise by Alice Hasters: ★★★½✩

Anti-Girlboss by Nadia Shehadeh: ★★★½✩

Graphic novels and webcomics:

Pimo & Rex by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Pimo & Rex: Die interdimensionale Hochzeit by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩ 

Freibad by Paulina Stulin & Doris Dörrie: ★★✩✩✩    

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill: ★★★★★  

Medusa & Perseus by André Breinbauer: ★★✩✩✩/★★★✩✩

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LAWRENCE DOBKIN

September 16, 1919

Lawrence ‘Larry’ Dobkin was born in New York City and went on to become a successful character actor and director with a career spanning seven decades. 

Dobkin was a popular performer during the Golden Age of Radio. His voice was used to narrate the classic western “Broken Arrow” (1950). He was one of five actors who played detective Ellery Queen in “The Adventures of Ellery Queen.” In “The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe” (1950–51), Dobkin played detective Archie Goodwin opposite Sydney Greenstreet.

"The few of us who are left..." Dobkin later said of his radio days, "...keep telling each other that we never had it so good."

He started screen acting in 1946 with Best Picture winner The Best Years of Our Lives.  

From 1960 to 1985, Dobkin was a busy TV director. He directed episodes of Desilu series’ (or series’ filmed at Desilu) such as “Star Trek,” “The Real McCoys,” “My Living Doll,” and “The Andy Griffith Show.” 

His film performances include Never Fear (1949), Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and North by Northwest (1959).

Dobkin was recognizable for his bald head, so he wore hats in two of his three appearances on “I Love Lucy.”  Oddly, he was not cast in “Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald” (ILL S1;E34)!

MAX: “Just caught this dame with her hand in the till!”

Dobkin first played Max, the diner counter man in “Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans” (ILL S2;E30) in 1953. When Lucy needs change for the payphone, she helps herself to the cash register while Max and the policeman are glued to the boxing match on the diner’s TV.  Busted! 

In “Equal Rights” (ILL S3;E4) Dobkin played Xavier, who is either the maitre’ d or headwaiter of the unnamed restaurant where the Ricardos and Mertzes  dine. It is unclear if Xavier is his real name, or if Desi is just ad-libbing based on the first name of his former employer Xavier Cugat. Ricky bribes (tips?) Xavier to make Lucy and Ethel wash dishes to pay for their meals, a common TV and movie trope of the time. 

XAVIER: “What are you trying to do? Skip out without paying?”

Although this is an Italian Restaurant, Dobkin does not attempt an Italian accent. The part might have been better cast with Louis Nicoletti, one of the show’s regular Italian-American performers, who plays a policeman in the episodes final scene.  

Also in 1953, Dobkin did an episode of “Our Miss Brooks” starring Gale Gordon. The series was filmed by Desilu Studios. 

COUNTERFEITER: “As you Americans say: No Overhead!”

His third and final appearance on “I Love Lucy” was as a counterfeiter in “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18), where he does show of an accent. His shady transaction outside the American Express office gets Lucy into a pile of merde!  

In early 1957, he guest starred on Desilu’s “Whirlybirds” and “The Danny Thomas Show” featuring Mary Wickes. 

Although he was never seen, he was part of television history from 1960 to 1963. Preceding the closing credits of each episode of the landmark ABC television network series “Naked City”, he could heard saying "There are eight million stories in the naked city, and this has been one of them."

In April 1959, he did a day on Desilu’s “The Ann Sothern Show.”  In November, Lucille Ball played Lucy Ricardo on the series’ season two premiere.  

In 1959 and 1960, Dobkin did two episodes of the anthology series “The Westinghoue-Desilu Playhouse” introduced by Desi Arnaz, who also acted as Executive Producer. 

A series that grew out of “Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse” was “The Untouchables.” Wearing a toupee, Dobkin played Dutch Schultz on three episodes of the series in 1959/60.  

Dobkin was nominated for an 1968 Emmy for playing Dr. Gettlinger in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight,” an episode of “CBS Playhouse”.

A 1998 live recreation of “My Favorite Husband”, billed as "Lucy's First Sitcom: A 50th Anniversary Reunion," featured Dobkin and “I Love Lucy” veterans Doris Singleton, Shirley Mitchell, Janet Waldo, Peggy Rea, and Roz and Marilyn Borden. Suzanne LaRusch play Liz Cooper and Dwayne Hickman (TV's Dobie Gillis) played her favorite husband George.

He recorded excerpts from "Laughs, Luck.. and Lucy" by Jess Oppenheimer for the “I Love Lucy" DVD release.

He had one daughter, Debra Dobkin, by his first wife, Frances Hope Walker. 

In 1962, he married actress Joanna Barnes (above); they had no children. Dobkin married actress Anne Collings in 1970 and had two children. 

On October 28, 2002, Dobkin died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83 years old.

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Got mad love for sea slugs, all day, every day <3

Top : Polycera quadrilineata, Scotland

Middle :  Ceratosoma amoena, New Zealand

Bottom : Aplysia sp., New Zealand

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Holidays 8.7

Holidays

Aged Care Employee Day (Australia)

Assyrian Martyrs Day

Banana Day (Japan)

Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)

Beach Party Day

Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Freberg Day

Guru Rimpoche's Thungkar Tshechu (Sikkim, India)

National Armed Forces Day (Bolivia)

National Clown Day

National Lighthouse Day

National Marriage Equality Day

National Report Health Care Fraud Day

Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day

Postal Inspector Service Day

Professional Speakers Day

Purple Heart Day

Republic Day (Ivory Coast)

Say ‘Cheese’ Day

Sea Serpent Day

Take Last Winter's Snowballs Out of the Freezer and Have a Fight Day

Tasoua Hosseini (Iran)

Tisha b'Av Bank Holiday (Israel)

Viking Pilgrimage (Spain)

Youth Day (Kiribati)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Raspberries ’n Cream Day

First Sunday in August

American Family Day [1st Sunday]

Blessing of the Sea [1st Sunday]

Dé Domhnaigh Crum-Dubh (a.k.a. Crom Dubh Sunday; Celtic/Ireland) [1st Sunday]

International Forgiveness Day [1st Sunday]

International Friendship Day [1st Sunday]

National Doll Day [1st Sunday]

National Kids Day [1st Sunday]

Psychic Day [1st Sunday]

Sisters' Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Cote d'Ivoire (a.k.a. Ivory Coast, from France, 1960)

Feast Days

Albert of Trapani (Christian; Saint)

Cajetan of Thienna (Christian; Saint)

Carpophorus and companions (Christian; Saint)

Dometius of Persia (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Arezzo (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Besançon (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Muenstereifel (Christian; Saint)

Feast of 'Aut-Yeb (Personification of Female Joy; Egypt)

Filseta (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Harvest Holiday (Slavic Pagan)

Idi Amin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Intergalactic Intercourse Day (Pastafarian)

John Mason Neale and Catherine Winkworth (Episcopal Church (USA))

Nantovinus (Christian; Saint)

Sixtus II, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Thomas à Kempis (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [30 of 53]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 36 of 60)

Premieres

Billy the Mountain, by Frank Zappa recorded live (Song; 1971)

Fantastic Four (Film; 2015)

Heavy Metal (Animated Film; 1981)

I Can’t Get Started, recorded by Bunny Berigan (Song; 1937)

It Ain’t Me Babe, by The Turtles (Song; 1965)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Film; 1973)

Just Another Band From L.A., by Frank Zappa and the Mothers if Invention (Album; 1970)

Lumpy Gravy, by Frank Zappa (Album; 1967)

Unforgiven (Film; 1992)

Weeds (TV Series; 2005)

We’re the Millers (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Albert (Austria)

Albert, Donat, Kajetan, Siksto (Croatia)

Lada (Czech Republic)

Donatus (Denmark)

Hiljar, Hiljo, Vaido, Vaigo, Vaiko (Estonia)

Lahja (Finland)

Gaétan (France)

Afra, Albert, Cajetan, Dominikus (Germany)

Asterios, Astero, Astini, Nikanor (Greece)

Ibolya (Hungary)

Donato, Gaetano (Italy)

Alfrēds, Helara, Madars (Latvia)

Drąsutis, Jogilė, Kajetonas, Klaudija, Sikstas (Lithuania)

Didrik, Doris (Norway)

Albert, Alberta, Albertyna, Anna, Dobiemir, Donat, Donata, Doris, Dorota, Kajetan (Poland)

Štefánia (Slovakia)

Cayetano, Jordán, Sixto (Spain)

Denise, Dennis (Sweden)

Claude, Claudette, Claudia, Claudine, Donata, Donato, Donica, Donzel, Gladys (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 219 of 2022; 146 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 31 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 10 (Red-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 10 Av 5782

Islamic: 9 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 9 Hasa; Oneday [9 of 30]

Julian: 25 July 2022

Moon: 74% Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 23 Dante (8th Month) [Thomas à Kempis]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 48 of 90)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 16 of 31)

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Holidays 8.7

Holidays

Aged Care Employee Day (Australia)

Assyrian Martyrs Day

Banana Day (Japan)

Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)

Beach Party Day

Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Freberg Day

Guru Rimpoche's Thungkar Tshechu (Sikkim, India)

National Armed Forces Day (Bolivia)

National Clown Day

National Lighthouse Day

National Marriage Equality Day

National Report Health Care Fraud Day

Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day

Postal Inspector Service Day

Professional Speakers Day

Purple Heart Day

Republic Day (Ivory Coast)

Say ‘Cheese’ Day

Sea Serpent Day

Take Last Winter's Snowballs Out of the Freezer and Have a Fight Day

Tasoua Hosseini (Iran)

Tisha b'Av Bank Holiday (Israel)

Viking Pilgrimage (Spain)

Youth Day (Kiribati)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Raspberries ’n Cream Day

First Sunday in August

American Family Day [1st Sunday]

Blessing of the Sea [1st Sunday]

Dé Domhnaigh Crum-Dubh (a.k.a. Crom Dubh Sunday; Celtic/Ireland) [1st Sunday]

International Forgiveness Day [1st Sunday]

International Friendship Day [1st Sunday]

National Doll Day [1st Sunday]

National Kids Day [1st Sunday]

Psychic Day [1st Sunday]

Sisters' Day [1st Sunday]

Independence Days

Cote d'Ivoire (a.k.a. Ivory Coast, from France, 1960)

Feast Days

Albert of Trapani (Christian; Saint)

Cajetan of Thienna (Christian; Saint)

Carpophorus and companions (Christian; Saint)

Dometius of Persia (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Arezzo (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Besançon (Christian; Saint)

Donatus of Muenstereifel (Christian; Saint)

Feast of 'Aut-Yeb (Personification of Female Joy; Egypt)

Filseta (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)

Harvest Holiday (Slavic Pagan)

Idi Amin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Intergalactic Intercourse Day (Pastafarian)

John Mason Neale and Catherine Winkworth (Episcopal Church (USA))

Nantovinus (Christian; Saint)

Sixtus II, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Thomas à Kempis (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [30 of 53]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 36 of 60)

Premieres

Billy the Mountain, by Frank Zappa recorded live (Song; 1971)

Fantastic Four (Film; 2015)

Heavy Metal (Animated Film; 1981)

I Can’t Get Started, recorded by Bunny Berigan (Song; 1937)

It Ain’t Me Babe, by The Turtles (Song; 1965)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Film; 1973)

Just Another Band From L.A., by Frank Zappa and the Mothers if Invention (Album; 1970)

Lumpy Gravy, by Frank Zappa (Album; 1967)

Unforgiven (Film; 1992)

Weeds (TV Series; 2005)

We’re the Millers (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Albert (Austria)

Albert, Donat, Kajetan, Siksto (Croatia)

Lada (Czech Republic)

Donatus (Denmark)

Hiljar, Hiljo, Vaido, Vaigo, Vaiko (Estonia)

Lahja (Finland)

Gaétan (France)

Afra, Albert, Cajetan, Dominikus (Germany)

Asterios, Astero, Astini, Nikanor (Greece)

Ibolya (Hungary)

Donato, Gaetano (Italy)

Alfrēds, Helara, Madars (Latvia)

Drąsutis, Jogilė, Kajetonas, Klaudija, Sikstas (Lithuania)

Didrik, Doris (Norway)

Albert, Alberta, Albertyna, Anna, Dobiemir, Donat, Donata, Doris, Dorota, Kajetan (Poland)

Štefánia (Slovakia)

Cayetano, Jordán, Sixto (Spain)

Denise, Dennis (Sweden)

Claude, Claudette, Claudia, Claudine, Donata, Donato, Donica, Donzel, Gladys (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 219 of 2022; 146 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 31 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 10 (Red-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 10 Av 5782

Islamic: 9 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 9 Hasa; Oneday [9 of 30]

Julian: 25 July 2022

Moon: 74% Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 23 Dante (8th Month) [Thomas à Kempis]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 48 of 90)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 16 of 31)

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SEMINAR SERIES : ‘UTOPIA. DYSPOPIA.’ : 26/11/19

OPENING OF OUR SEMINAR:

To reassure you..

Our next seminar before the Christmas break will be on Tuesday 10th December. We will be suggesting helpful ways to engage in critical writing/reflection and essay structuring.

Some suggestions if you are stuck…

A highly illustrated, accessible guide to political art in the twenty-first century, including some of the most daring and ambitious artworks of recent times. 

Why have so many artists turned to political subject matter in the last decade? Can art not only question but also reinvigorate the social, civic, and political imagination? Art and Politics Now offers a brilliant survey of artists engaged with "the political," whether in providing commentary, questioning social structures, or actively responding to the world around them.

Many high-profile artists are featured, including Chantal Ackerman, Ai Weiwei, Francis Alys, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Subodh Gupta, Teresa Margolles, Walid Raad, Raqs Media Collective, Doris Salcedo, Bruno Serralongue, and Santiago Sierra.

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." --Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens Museum Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere.

The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Donnie Darko". "Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema" is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across periods, genres, and history. Through an analysis of such landmark films as "The Wizard of Oz", "The Others" and "Groundhog Day", James Walters reveals how unconventional worlds are crucial to each film's dramatic agenda and narrative structure. This groundbreaking volume unifies decades of divergent work by film scholars and points the way towards a new theoretical framework for understanding fantasy in the context of popular film. "Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema" will be an essential resource for film studies scholars and movie buffs alike.

The Tate

Explore artworks from Tate's collection that respond to their social and political context

This wing is concerned with the ways in which artists engage with social ideals and historical realities. Though some artists associated modernism with a utopian vision, art has also provided a mirror to contemporary society, sometimes raising awareness about urgent issues or arguing for change. Whether through traditional media or moving images, abstraction or figuration, militancy or detached observation, all the artworks in this wing highlight aspects of the social reality in which they were made, and try to generate a reaction and convey a more or less explicit message to their publics.

By the end of today you will...

- A2 Identify and demonstrate an understanding of key theories and discourses that affect the practice, consumption and production of photography. - A3 Evidence an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice, and interpret, analyse and evaluate critical approaches to creative practice. - B2 Apply appropriate theoretical approaches to the study and interpretation of ........and associated media practices, building awareness of the ethical, social and cultural consequences of creative practice. - C5 Competently utilise a range of appropriate research methods and academic conventions. - D3 Demonstrate communication skills, which evidence knowledge and understanding of critical debates around creative production.

DISCUSSION:

At this part of the session we were able to discuss about our task that we were set the week prior. It was insightful to view everyones different approach to the ‘Dystopian’ and ‘Utopian’ theme that stemmed from last weeks lecture and it made me think alternatively abut this broad topic. 

TURNER PRIZE

Starting in 1984, the Turner Prize is an award that recognised new developments in contemporary art. The prize is awarded each year to ‘a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve moths preceding.’  

Founders decided to name the prize after J.M.W Turner - a radical painter in his day. Critics took this decision as a signal of their intention to award controversial art. There were conflicts as to whether or not Turner would have approved. However, the name was chosen because not only did Turner want to establish a prize for young artists, but Turner in his day, was considered to be controversial. Over the years ‘the Turner Prize has played a significant role in provoking debate about visual art and the growing public interest in contemporary British art...and has become widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.’ 

AGAINST

The Evening Standard critic Brian Sewell wrote “The annual farce of the Turner Prize is now as inevitable in November as is the pantomime at Christmas.” 

Critic Matthew Collings wrote, “Turner Prize art is based on a formula where something looks startling at first and thens turns out to be expressing some kind of banal idea, which somebody will be sure to tell you about. The ideas are never important or even really ideas, more notions, like the notions in advertising. Nobody pursues them anyway, because theres nothing there to pursue.” 

In 2002, Culture Minister (and former art student) Kim Howells pinned the following statement to a board in a room designated for visitors comments: “If this is there best British artists can produce then British art is lost. It is cold mechanical, conceptual bullshit.”

Stuckism

Founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thompson in 1999. Anti- conceptual, instead promoting figurative painting. Confrontational, frequently holding demonstrations against Turner Prize. 

Banksy - ‘Mind the Crap’

Banksy once painted a warning on the steps of Tate Britain - "mind the crap". It's the kind of cheeky subversive comment his fans love him for, and in this case the target was the pretentious, institutionalised contemporary "art world".

FOR

Critic Richard Cork said:

“There will never be a substitute for approaching new art with an open mind, unencumbered by rancid clichés. As long as the Turner Prize facilitates such engagement, the buzz surrounding it will remain a minor distraction.”

In 2006, newspaper columnist Janet Street-Porter said “The Turner Prize and Becks Futures both entice though sand of young people into art galleries for the first time every year. The fulfil a valuable role.”

Dan Fox, associate editor of Frieze, said that the Turner Prize should be considered a barometer for the mood of the nation. 

Nominees:

Lawrences Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist and audio investigator, whose work explores ‘the politics of listening’ and the role of sound and voice within the law and human rights. He creates audiovisual installations, lecture performances, audio archives, photography and text, translating in-depth research and investigative work into affective, spatial experiences. Abu Hamdan works with human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International and Defense for Children International, and with international prosecutors to help obtain aural testimonies for legal and historical investigations. He received his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths London and is a practitioner affiliated with Forensic Architecture.

Helen Cammock

Helen Cammock works across film, photography, print, text and performance. She produces works stemming from a deeply involved research process that explore the complexities of social histories. Central to her practice is the voice: the uncovering of marginalised voices within history, the question of who speaks on behalf of whom and on what terms, as well as how her own voice reflects in different ways on the stories explored in her work.

Oscar Murillo 

Oscar Murillo’s multifaceted practice incorporates live events, drawing, sculptural installation, video, painting, bookmaking and collaborative projects with different communities. In his work, Murillo particularly explores materials, process and labour; as well as issues of migration, community, exchange and trade in today’s globalised world. These concerns are deeply embedded in Murillo’s personal history and creative process. The artist pushes the boundaries of materials in his work particularly in the creation of his collaged-together, unstretched canvases often made with recycled fragments from the studio. Emigrating to London from Colombia aged 11, Murillo draws on his own biography and that of his family and friends, who are often involved in his performances. References to life, culture and labour conditions in the factory town of La Paila where he grew up, reappear throughout his work.

Tai Shani

Tai Shani’s practice encompasses performance, film, photography and sculptural installations, frequently structured around experimental texts. Taking inspiration from disparate histories, narratives and characters mined from forgotten sources, Shani creates dark, fantastical worlds, brimming with utopian potential. These deeply affective works often combine rich and complex monologues with arresting, saturated installations, manifesting equally disturbing and divine images in the mind of the viewer.

The Judges

The members of the Turner Prize 2019 jury are Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network; Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of The Showroom Gallery and Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths; Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary, Margate and Charlie Porter, writer. The jury is chaired by Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain.

3 December 2019 #TURNERPRIZE The winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony live on the BBC, the broadcast partner for the Turner Prize.

Discuss - who would you vote for?

Get into teams

● Go and research more about the artist you would vote for ● You need reasons why you think they should win ● You need to look at the artists past work ● Make badges for all your team members ● Then write 100 word rationale/argument/critical appraisal of why they should    win ● You need to be constructively critical

VOTE FOR TAI SHANI

‘Tai Shani takes us even further, to a voluptuous imaginary city whose fantastical architecture, all pink and laid out with ziggurats and cylindrical columns, resinous puddles and spheres, lies at our feet. Overhead dangle bejewelled udders and fleshy asteroids. A huge arm and outstretched green hand comes to rest in the middle of the spotlit metaphysical architecture. I am reminded of Giacometti’s surrealist 1932 sculpture The Palace at 4am, rejigged for a sci-fi space opera.

Shani’s tableau cries out for living, breathing, moving bodies. For now, we have a stage, filled with sculptural elements, an ambient soundscape by Let’s Eat Grandma, a video of a speaking head, whose words can be heard on headphones. There will be live performances of Shani’s long, 12-part DC: Semiramis at Turner Contemporary over three evenings in November.

Shani’s feminist science fiction takes as its starting point Christine de Pizan’s 1405 work The Book of the City of Ladies. The book describes a city as sanctuary, an allegorical space for real, imaginary and mythical women from the past, present and future. Were it not for all the sex and violence, Shani’s is an almost childlike invention. Her cast of self-replicating characters impregnate themselves, slide lubriciously between genders, between life and death. Hugely disarmed by performances I saw at the last Glasgow International at Tramway, I couldn’t make sense of what I saw and heard, yet it stayed with me. Shani’s city sprawls, psychologically as well as physically. Without live performers, it is a bit arcane and lifeless.’

What does the Turner Prize do? 

- For an artist, winner or nominee?

- For the Tate?

- For art in this country? 

- What purpose/function could/should the Turner Prize have?

- Does the Turner Prize of the judges have an agenda?

Turner Prize Sponsorship

The Turner Prize has been sponsored since 1987. Originally sponsored by Drexel Burnham Lamber a major Wall Street Investment bank that went bankrupt in 1990 due to illegal activities. In 1990 there was no sponsorship and thus no prize. In 1991, Channel 4 took over and raised the prize fund to £20,000. Since 2004 sponsored by Gardens Gin, i.e. Diageo (the worlds largest brewer and distiller until 2017) NET income 2011 was just over £2,000,000,000*. 

References:

https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/artist-and-society 

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/exhibition/turner-prize-2019  

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/turner-prize 

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/stuckism 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2007/mar/13/whyallthefussoverbanksy 

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/exhibition/turner-prize-2019/oscar-murillo

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/exhibition/turner-prize-2019/lawrence-abu-hamdan

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/exhibition/turner-prize-2019/helen-cammock

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/26/turner-prize-2019-review-outrages-of-our-age-in-sound-vision-and-papiermache 

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Read in 2023

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes: ★★✩✩✩ (HUGE disappointment)

Babel by R. F. Kuang: ★★★★★ (HUGE recommend)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: ★★★★✩  

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron: ★★★★✩

Pet by Akwae Emenzi: ★★★★★

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick: ★★★★✩

The Deep by Rivers Solomon: ★★★★★ (big recommend!)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: ★★★★★

Nevada by Imogen Binnie: ★★★★✩

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (re-read): ★★★★✩

Das Känguru Manifest by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩  

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee: ★★★★✩  

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi: ★★★★✩  

Peter Darling by Austin Chant: ★★★★✩  

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty: ★★★★½

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: ★★★★★

Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha: ★★★½✩

Dschinns by Fatma Ayedemir: ★★★★★

Blutbuch by Kim De L’Horizon: ★★★★✩  

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang: ★★½✩✩

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall: ★★★★✩

Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: ★★★★✩

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard: ★★★½✩

Der Duft der Sterne by Simon Klemp: (can’t fairly rate, a friend of mine is the author)

The Binding by Bridget Colling: ★★★★½

In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★½

Non-fiction:

Von hier aus gesehen by Celestine Hassenfratz, Anna Luise Rother, & Ulla Scharfenberg: ★★★★½

Behindert und Stolz by Luisa L’Audace: ★★★★½   

Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit by Gianni Jovanovic mit Oyindamola Alashe: ★★★★✩  

Radikale Selbstfürsorge jetzt! by Svenja Gräfen: ★★★✩✩  

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Your Homeland is Our Nightmare) by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: ★★★★★  

Bad Gays. A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller:

Unlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland and Silvie Horch (eds.): ★★★★✩

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel: ★★★★✩

Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay: ★★★✩✩

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: ★★★★✩

Lieber Jonas oder Der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung by Linus Giese: ★★★★✩

Gender. A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele: ★★½✩✩

Hood Feminism by Mikkie Kendall: ★★★★★  

Let’s Talk About Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid: ★★★★★  

Wie kann ich was bewegen? by Raúl Krauthausen & Benjamin Schwarz: (stopped bc it made me unhappy)

Caliban and the Witch by (not finished yet)

NichtMutterSein by Nadine Pungs: ★★★½✩

Desintegriert euch! by Max Czollek: ★★★★✩

Pageboy by Elliot Page: ★★★★★  

Hass by Şeyda Kurt: ★★★★½

Die stille Gewalt by Asha Hedayati: ★★★★★  

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats by Margarete Stochowski: ★★★★½

Identitätskrise by Alice Hasters: ★★★½✩

Anti-Girlboss by Nadia Shehadeh: ★★★½✩

Graphic novels and webcomics:

Pimo & Rex by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Pimo & Rex: Die interdimensionale Hochzeit by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩ 

Freibad by Paulina Stulin & Doris Dörrie: ★★✩✩✩    

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill: ★★★★★  

Medusa & Perseus by André Breinbauer: ★★✩✩✩/★★★✩✩

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At home:

Joseph & William - 2x Red Eyed Tree Frogs - Male

Emerson - Axolotl - Male - adopted from owner no longer able to look after him

Alexandria - Bearded Dragon - Female - birth defect, malformed rear left leg

Samson & Gerald - 2x Siamese Leaf-Toed Geckoes - Male

Franklin - Corn Snake - Male - adopted from owner no longer able to look after him

Cora - Curlyhair Tarantula - Female - birth defect, blind

Hugo & Aubrey - 2x Diamondback Terrapins - Male & Female

Richard - Hermann Tortoise - Male

Skye - African Pygmy Hedgehog - Female - adopted after abandonment

Susan & Emily - 2x Sugar Gliders - Female

Doc, Dopey & Bashful - 3x Guinea Pigs - Male - adopted from family no longer able to look after them. explains their names

Chloe & Vicky - 2x Fancy Rats - Female - adopted after abandonment

Jack & Lily - 2x Lovebirds - Male & Female - rescued from cruel owner

Hamish - Cockatoo - Male - rescued from the same cruel owner

Arthur - British Longhair Cat - Male - adopted from shelter

Islay - Shetland Sheepdog - Male

Rowan - Irish Setter Dog - Female - gift from @shamrockshore

Ceilidh - Spaniel Mutt Dog - Female - shared with @sprigxfthyme

On estate:

11x Bantam Chickens (various breeds), Dutch Partridge Cockerel

Lea, Dory, Beverley, Sid, Dylan & Harry -  6x Pygmy Goats - 3x Female, 3x Male - named by various children staying at the estate with their parents on holiday

Ewan & Ellie - 2x Hampshire Pigs - Male & Female

Eileen - Clydesdale Horse - Female

Tiree & Coll  - 2x Friesian Horses - Female

Kendrick - Shetland Pony - Male - adopted after abandonment

Donald - Donkey [Breed Unidentified]  - Male - adopted after retirement from work as a beach donkey

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43 Et si le temps donnait raison à la droite dominicaine ?

Dajabón (Dominican Republic), May 7, 1935;University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

44 58% des accouchements dans le  Cibao occidental proviennent de mères haïtiennes

Par  Doris Pantaleón; trad et adaptation G.M.

Les provinces de Valverde, Santiago Rodríguez, Monte Cristi et Dajabón, appartenant à la région sanitaire de l'ouest du Cibao, sont celles où le nombre de naissances de mères haïtiennes est le plus élevé, atteignant 58% des naissances dans les hôpitaux publics au premier semestre de cette année.

Selon les rapports de production de services et de soins de santé dans les établissements du réseau public du Service national de santé (SNS), 2 681 naissances ont été enregistrées au total, dont 1 122 étaient des mères dominicaines, pour 41,9 %, et 1 556 étaient des mères haïtiennes, pour 58%.

La deuxième région sanitaire où les naissances de mères étrangères sont les plus nombreuses est la Norcentrale, qui comprend les provinces de Santiago, Puerto Plata et Espaillat, où sur 6 219 naissances enregistrées à cette date, 1 877 étaient des mères haïtiennes, soit 30,2%.

Alors que dans la région sanitaire orientale, comprenant les provinces de San Pedro de Macorís, La Romana, La Altagracia, Hato Mayor et El Seibo, les naissances de mères haïtiennes ont occupé 28,4%, avec 1 652 naissances sur un total de 5 816 naissances enregistrées. .

Selon les registres du SNS, dans la région métropolitaine de la santé qui comprend le district national, la province de Santo Domingo et Monte Plata, 21 227 accouchements ont été enregistrés, dont 17 624 de mères dominicaines, soit 82,9%, et 3 528 Haïtiens, soit 16%. Source: Doris Pantaleón, El 58% de los partos en el Cibao Occidental es de madres haitianas

Carte: By Jos1950 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25628602

45  

 Dans le registre d’immigration ils sont presque tous haïtiens

Wanda Méndez,«En libro de extranjería casi todos son haitianos»,22 de enero de 2019 , Listín Diario

Les mères non résidentes en République dominicaine qui ont accouché dans des centres médicaux dominicains et dont les naissances ont été inscrites dans le livre d'immigration disponible auprès des responsables de l'état civil du pays proviennent d'au moins 36 pays, mais la majorité d'entre elles sont originaires d'Haïti. .

La liste la plus récente des personnes inscrites dans le livre d'immigration fourni par le Conseil électoral central (JCE), l'organe chargé de l'enregistrement de l'état civil en République dominicaine, indique qu'entre 2017 et 2018 l'enregistrement de la naissance de 34 947 enfants de mères non résidentes, de dont 34.188 sont de nationalité haïtienne.

Sur 19 227 enfants de mères non résidentes inscrites en 2018 dans le livre de l'immigration, 18 892 sont de nationalité haïtienne. Et sur 15 676 naissances d'étrangers inscrites en 2017 dans le livre des étrangers, 15 296 sont de nationalité haïtienne.

Le pays d'origine de la mère des personnes inscrites dans le livre d'immigration qui occupe la deuxième position par le nombre d'inscrits, tant en 2017 qu'en 2018, est le Venezuela, avec 241 et 334 respectivement.

Viennent ensuite les États-Unis, où 22 personnes inscrites dans le livre des étrangers sont nationales en 2018 et 30 en 2017. De nationalité chinoise, onze sont enregistrées en 2017 et 12 en 2018; et Mexicain, 6 en 2017 et 12 en 2018. De nationalité espagnole, 10 ont été réglées en 2018 et 7 en 2017.

[...]

Les données ont été fournies par le Conseil électoral central (JCE), organisme chargé de l'enregistrement des faits d'état civil en République dominicaine, sur demande de LISTÍN DIARIO.

L'ouverture d'un livre d'immigration pour enregistrer la naissance des enfants de mères étrangères ne résidant pas dans le pays a été décidée par le Conseil électoral central (JCE, Junta Central Electoral), par la résolution 02-2007 du 18 avril 2007.

Dans sa résolution 02-2007, la JCE affirme que l'État se conforme aux dispositions établies dans les traités internationaux relatifs aux droits de l'homme, droit à l'identité et à l'enregistrement des naissances. Source: Wanda Méndez,«En libro de extranjería casi todos son haitianos»,22 de enero de 2019 , Listín Diario; adaptation & traduction: G.M.

46 Au Sujet du Registre d'immigration ( livre des étrangers)

Par Aura Celeste Fernández Rodríguez, V/Lex República Dominicana, 1 de Junio de 2013

«Le Registre d'immigration est venu résoudre le problème de l'enregistrement des naissances en République dominicaine des enfants de mères étrangères, en créant une inscription spéciale, rose, qui établit leur statut de la personne née dans le pays. Cependant, les conditions précaires dans lesquelles les naissances ont lieu ne permettent pas toujours aux mères de prouver qu'elles sont dominicaines ou résidentes légales dans le pays, ou que le père de l'enfant est dominicain, et que, par conséquent, l'enregistrement n'a pas lieu. Une fois le certificat rose délivré, il est difficile de changer le statut de l'enfant, même si les parents présentent les preuves à l' officier de l'état civil.

Dans sa résolution 002-2007, le Conseil électoral central (JCE, Junta Central Electoral) a mis en vigueur le registre des naissances de l’enfant d’une mère étrangère non résidente en République Dominicaine, communément appelé Registre d'immigration (ou livre des étrangers). Le règlement susmentionné a été approuvé lors de la session plénière de la JCE le 18 avril 2007 […].

Bien que le livre des étrangers ( Registre d'immigration) soit venu résoudre le problème de l'enregistrement des naissances des enfants de mères étrangères, par une inscription spéciale indiquant leur statut de naissance, sur une page rose pour les distinguer de l'enregistrement des naissances de Dominicains, les conditions dans lesquelles les accouchements sont présentés dans les hôpitaux publics et la précarité des mères étrangères qui vont accoucher dans ces lieux ne leur permettent pas toujours de présenter les preuves (lorsqu'elles existent) pour démontrer leur statut est légal en République Dominicaine ou que le père de l'enfant est dominicain. À la naissance de l’enfant, l’hôpital ou le centre de santé délivre un certificat de naissance rose qui indique que le nouveau-né est étranger». Résumé de l'extrait par G.M.

47 La République Dominicaine dépense beaucoup d'argent en subventionnant les accouchements d'haïtiennes

Un accouchement compliqué peut engendrer des coûts pour le service hospitalier atteignant 25 000 pesos, tandis qu'en cas de césarienne compliquée, le patient peut consommer jusqu'à 60 000 pesos sur le budget de l'hôpital.

C’est le coût moyen des services estimé dans la maternité Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia , principal centre de référence nationale, où, selon les journaux, 9 553 naissances ont été enregistrées, dont 3 228 mères étrangères, soit 35%.

Le rapport indique que le coût de l'accouchement sans complications est de 7 000 pesos et que les complications vont de 15 à 25 000 pesos, tandis que la césarienne sans complications avec un séjour de 48 à 72 heures est de 11 500 pesos et avec complications du le patient consomme 3 800 pesos par jour, c'est à dire entre 25 000 et 60 000 pesos pendant son séjour.

Au service des nouveau-nés, sans complications, l’attention portée au nouveau-né est calculée à l’hôpital, ce qui implique une consommation de 1 063 pesos par jour et avec complications à l’Unité de soins intensifs (UCI,Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos ), l’investissement quotidien est de 25 381 pesos.

Les registres du Service national de la santé (SNS) indiquent que 38 951 enfants ont été notifiés sur 21 hôpitaux du réseau public classés par ordre de priorité, dont 31 807 ont été enregistrés dans les délégations suivantes: une couverture de 81,66 pour cent. Sur ce total, 10 156 enfants étaient de mères étrangères, dont 7 568 inscrits au Registre d'immigration (livre des étrangers). Source, «El país se gasta una millonada subsidiando partos de haitianas», Doris Pantaleón,La República sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2019, Listín Diario; adaptation, G.M. Photo: Listín Diario

Rencontre entre les présidents Rafael L.Trujillo et Sténio Vincent, Coll. CIDIHCA

49 Contribution traditionnelle des politiciens haïtiens dans la construction de l’antihaïtianisme d’Etat en République Dominicaine

«Pendant l’occupation militaire américaine, la mentalité antihaïtienne persiste et demeure. Bernardo Vega a expliqué comment, depuis 1930, Trujillo s’efforce d’améliorer les relations avec Haïti. On peut donc affirmer que l’antihaïtianisme étatique s’interrompt jusqu’à l’assassinat des Haïtiens en septembre-octobre 1937. À partir de ce moment, l’État rassemble tout le contenu de l’antihaïtianisme historique et en fait le matériau fondamental de la propagande antihaïtienne. De nouvelles doctrines antihaïtiennes sont ensuite élaborées et l’État trujilliste convertit l’antihaïtianisme en un élément consubstantiel à la même interprétation officielle de l’histoire dominicaine». Frank Moya Pons, l’antihaïtianisme historique et l’antihaïtianisme d’État

«Empêcher l’émigration clandestine au prix des châtiments drastiques contre les embaucheurs est désormais la seule façon que nous ayons de combattre l’esclavage déguisé des Haïtiens dans la Partie de l’Est.» Jean-Price Mars

Grâce aux travaux des historiens Julio Jean-Pierre Audain, Leslie Péan et Gérard Jolibois, nous apprenons,«Sous le gouvernement de Vincent, c’est la sœur du président, Résia Vincent et un certain Luders qui débordent d’imagination pour créer les réseaux de recrutement des travailleurs haïtiens pour les firmes américaines ayant investi plus de 50 millions de dollars dans le secteur du sucre dans le pays voisin».

Dès son arrivée au pouvoir en 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina s’imposerait comme principal importateur de la force ouvrière haïtienne. Le postulat alors émis par le capitalisme américain était clair: «tierras baratas en Santo Domingo, mano de obra barata en Haití» (Rapport du Dr. Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal en 1931, Ministro Plenipotenciario de República Dominicana en Haití).

Cette manne providentielle - «la diplomatie de la zafra» G.M.- allait offrir une extraordinaire source de revenus aux pouvoirs de Port-au-Prince pendant de nombreuses décennies.

En 1940, le général dominicain Anselmo Antonio Paulino Alvarez suggéra au «Benefactor»-président Rafael Trujillo le choix d’Elie Lescot comme président d’Haiti. Une fois que Lescot n’était plus à la hauteur des business du Benefactor, Trujillo a présenté la candidature de son protégé, le colonel Demosthènes Petrus Calixte, premier chef de la Garde d’Haïti. Cette manoeuvre a été détournée par le député Dumarsais Estimé.

Le 5 février 1952 le Général de division Paul Eugène Magloire inaugure la modernité zafratique. Désormais les parties disposent d’un instrument légal pour faire affaires. Dit instrument- des accords impeccables de vente d’haïtiens- sera repris et modifié le 14 novembre 1966 entre les gouvernements des Présidents François Duvalier et Joaquin Balaguer. Rappelez-vous que le Benefactor participa à la journée du 22 septembre… En 1957, d’ordre de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, le colonel Johnny Abbes García, chef du puissant Servicio de Inteligencia Militar, est présent en Haïti pour financer et encadrer l’arrivée au pouvoir du Dr. François Duvalier (Santiago Estrella Veloz). Le 22 décembre 1958, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo et François Duvalier signèrent un pacte de protection mutuelle. Sur l’Ile, on cite le nom des architectes de cette entente politico-commerciale (se protéger et le négoce des braceros): colonel Johnny Abbes García et Clément Barbot, chef de la Police politique haïtienne. De décembre 1958 à l’assassinat de Trujillo en mai 1961, «[…] Duvalier gagnait entre 6 et 8 millions US dans la vente des braceros»

La lettre du dictateur Rafael Trujillo à Luc Fouché en date du 6 mai 1957 prouve que le caudillo dominicain imposait, aussi, sa volonté aux décideurs de l’Ouest: «Cher Monsieur Fouché, Par suite du refus du Gouvernement Sylvain d’exécuter l’accord que j’avais avec le Gouvernement MAGLOIRE pour l’envoi de travailleurs en République Dominicaine, la moitié de la récolte de canne est restée sur pied cette année. C’est une réelle perte pour notre économie. […] M. Louis Déjoie que j’ai fait toucher, il y a trois semaines, par un intermédiaire fidèle, l’ami que vous connaissez, m’a fait répondre que ses représentants étaient gênés dans le Conseil par ceux d’un autre candidat et qu’il convenait d’attendre qu’il eut fait son travail d’élimination. […]»

Concluons avec Péan: « Ces pratiques de négriers […] jusqu’en 1986 . Le recyclage du malheur haïtien demande de persévérer en répétant ces vérités et en ne laissant pas des zélections embrouiller notre discernement. Il faut surtout protéger les complices internationaux des mascarades électorales des deux côtés de la frontière.

Le dernier paiement effectué par les Dominicains fut de 2 millions de dollars qui furent transportés le 14 janvier 1986 dans deux valises de cuir au palais national en Haïti. Cette mission fut exécutée par un général et deux colonels dominicains accompagnés de l’ambassadeur haïtien […]. Cette somme disparut avec le renversement de la dictature le 7 février 1986 sans que les coupeurs de canne ne soient envoyés en République Dominicaine. Le Conseil National de Gouvernement (CNG) prétendit ne rien savoir de la transaction. Mais le gouvernement dominicain ne l’entendit pas de cette oreille et manifesta énergiquement son mécontentement. Après deux mois de tractations, le gouvernement du Général Henry Namphy donna l’ordre à la Banque de la République d’Haïti de rembourser les deux millions de dollars au Conseil d’État du Sucre» ( Leslie Péan, L’ensauvagement macoute et ses conséquences, p. 528.)

Ref: Clôture du séminaire «Les deux nations de Quisqueya: les relations haïtiano-dominicaines au tournant du siècle» prononcée par Frank Moya Pons à l’invitation de l’Institut des Études dominicaines de l’Université de New York (CUNY), au City College de New York, le 8 décembre 1995. Adaptation du texte espagnol «Antihaitianismo Histórico y Antihaitianismo de Estado» par G.M.

Correspondance du 1er février 1949 entre Jean Price Mars, ambassadeur d’Haïti en République Dominicaine et le président Dumarsais Estimé

Leslie Péan, AlterPresse,Haiti-Rép. Dominicaine : Une responsabilité partagée dans le crime (3 de 3),vendredi 18 octobre 2013 & Julio Jean-Pierre Audain, Les ombres d’une politique néfaste, Mexique, Imprenta Arana, 1976, p. 125.

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. Revelan contrato entre dictadores Duvalier y Trujillo.Listín Diario, LXXVI, (17745). 23 agosto 1964: p. 3

Dr. Fritz N. Cinéas, Le Nouvelliste, 2007–09–21

La «diplomatie de la zafra» et le «zafratisme»: néoligismes qui aident à comprendre les sombres écritures financières entre politiciens de l’Est et de l’Ouest. Gilbert Mervilus

Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez à gauche du président Juan Bosch.  Colonel Domínguez, ancien directeur de l’Académie militaire Batalla de Las Carreras (15 juin 1963), Héros national (ley 86–13 ) dont les restes reposent au Panthéon des Fondateurs de la Patrie

50  L’Armée Dominicaine ne viendra pas!

Nos compatriotres, longtemps confus quant aux devoirs et obligations des F.A.d’H. d’hier (Armée? Police? Gendarmerie? Souvent milice?) pensent toujours que les autres forces — même de petite taille — de l’hémisphère sont prêtes pour certaines opérations. Hélas!

Lorsque, un des plus grands présidents de la République Dominicaine, le professeur Juan Bosch, confia à l’un des meilleurs officiers de l’Histoire militaire dominicaine, le colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez (1934–1965), l’ Operación Mangú, le colonel avait pour mission de «libérer l’Ambassade dominicaine des troupes de Duvalier». L’Operación Mangú contenait aussi un grand élément tactique dissuasif: Faire semblant de s’emparer d’une large zone du territoire haïtien.

Chef d’Etat cultivé et grand connaisseur de l’Histoire universelle, Juan Bosch a respecté une ligne que très peu d’historiens nationaux osent approfondir: on envoie en Haïti, comme attaché militaire ou chef de contingent les meilleurs officiers. Depuis le colonel Charles Young(12 mars 1864–8 janvier 1922) , attaché militaire américain en Haïti, sous Nord Alexis (1902–1908). Young fut le troisième diplômé afro-américain de West Point.

Aujourd’hui, ce soir même, le Président Danilo Medina a trop d’urgences majuscules à la «maison» pour s’occuper des complexes affaires de voisinage! 

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President Obama’s Reading List:

Entertainment Weekly posted the myriad books that the President has recommended over the years. Over the next four years, I hope to tackle this impressive list...I generally read anywhere from 20-100 books a year, but I know that some of these 100-plus books, I will struggle with. Still, I hope to grow and learn, and overwhelm my already crammed book shelves... @barackobama

Happy Reading, and Thank you, Mr. President

The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Nora Webster, Colm Toibin The Laughing Monsters, Denis Johnson Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Dr. Atul Gawande Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, Katherine Rundell The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan Redwall series, Brian Jacques Junie B. Jones series, Barbara Park Nuts to You, Lynn Rae Perkins Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins Seveneves, Neal Stephenson The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead All That Is, James Salter The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Where the Wild things Are, Maurice Sendak Moby Dick, Herman Melville Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch Gilead, Marylinne Robinson Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene The Quiet American, Graham Greene Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Ghandi’s autobiography Working, Studs Terkel Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese To the End of the Land, David Grossman Purity, Johnathan Franzen A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipau Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff Lush Life, Richard Price Netherland, Joseph O’Neill Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie Redeployment, Phil Klay Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Plainsong, Kent Haruf The Way Home, George Pelecanos What is the What, Dave Eggers Philosophy & Literature, Peter S. Thompson Collected Poems, Derek Walcott In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris John Adams, David McCullough Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days of Triumph of Hope, Jonathan Alte FDR, Jean Edward Smith Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin The Collected Works, Abraham Lincoln Hot, Flat, Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America,Thomas L. Friedman Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10th, 2001, Steve Coll Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A Caro Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Evan Osnos Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman Moral Man and Immortal Society, Reinhold Niebuhr A Kind and Just Parent, William Ayers The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria Lessons in Disaster, Gordon Goldstein Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, Richard S. Tedlow Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo