Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Your book, Citizen: An American Lyric, has won the National Book Critics’ Circle poetry award in the US, the Forward in the UK and is shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize. It exposes racism in the US at its most violent and at its most nuanced. Why the title? I called it Citizen because I…
Hasbro has recently come under fire for excluding Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens character, Rey, from its movie version of Monopoly. The game, which allows players to choose between four characters from the Star Wars universe, is just another piece of The Force Awakens merchandise that has riled up fans after Rey was excluded….
Illustration by Marissa Maciel /end .figure The night after Christmas finds me seated with relatives and friends at my in-laws’ crowded dinner table, enjoying a delicious meal and happily chatting about television — one of few topics that’s nearly always safe to discuss in mixed company. Of the fourteen people laughing and passing laden platters around, only one is new to me. Someone mentions…
I’ve never been a fan of the “sharing economy”. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with Uber, Airbnb and their peers, it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be much “sharing” going on. It’s more like adding a technological middleman to a rental market. Now having shaken up the taxi and hotel market, the…
Over the weekend a bunch of militant ranchers and wannabees took over a building at a federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon. The group has threatened violence upon any authority threatening to remove them and are generally making a big show of things. The leader, Ammon Bundy, kin to Nevada rancher and scofflaw Cliven…
A man’s “Cash For Life” lottery winnings are up for auction. In one of the most bizarre auctions that Repocast.com has ever held, an unidentified man’s lottery winnings will be auctioned off to the highest bidder by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The auction will run online at Repocast.com from 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Thursday,…
article start Weeks before a Star Trek fan film was set to begin production, Paramount Pictures Corp. and CBS Studios are setting their phasers to stun, accusing the makers of the crowd-funded project of infringing on their interstellar intellectual property. Paramount and CBS have filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court in California against the…
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen recently issued a final class action certification in O’Connor v. Uber. Judge Chen expanded the class to include drivers bound by 2014 and 2015 arbitration clauses, finding that those clauses were unenforceable on public policy grounds. Since the issuance of the order, Uber has sought to delay the trial and…
Chelsea Clinton is a long-time devotee of the group exercise classes. | Getty Chelsea Clinton to headline fundraiser at SoulCycle in Tribeca By Annie Karni 01/04/16 12:24 PM EST Updated 01/04/16 01:18 PM EST Busy New Yorkers can now donate to Hillary Clinton’s campaign without missing a workout — Chelsea Clinton is set to host…
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