SAMUEL FLETCHEROught-Seven:UE (Unasian Era)
By the age of thirty-seven, Samuel Fletcher had cheated death more times than he could recall, thanking Olidammara at every opportunity.
Taken from his village and pressed into military service at 15 years old, he’d come of age during a violent and lawless time, spending his next fifteen years fighting in the Thousand [...]
Not sure which one I’ll read next but thanks to all for the suggestions a while back. A pretty diverse list.
Prison Memiors of an Anarchist
Alexander Berkman
Running with Scissors
Dry
Augusten Burroughs
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon
Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Learning to Question
Paulo Freire, Antonio Faundez
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Friere
The Old Man And The Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Monstrous [...]
I get daily emails from Idealist.org about job openings in non-profit and socially-minded for-profit companies.
Every week there’s usually a few interesting jobs that are right up my alley. Invariably, they pay considerably less than my current corporate rut job. “Considerably less” as in Executive Directors for some of these places make less than me.
And that’s [...]
Congratulations, you make it until the end!
You are the strong, modestly good-looking man
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I love randomly discovering new [to me] writers, especially when they’re not well-known bestseller list types. That whole underdog thing.
I finished Crawfish Dreams last week and am happy to say that Nancy Rawles is a remarkable talent! She weaves an intricate tale of a family of Creoles living in mid-80’s Los Angeles into a delicious [...]
