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Aug 16, 2024 | 
nola.com | Daniel José Older |Anna Miller
This spring, New Orleans joined the rising worldwide student movement. Led by Tulane and Loyola students in their encampment, hundreds gathered in hope and prayer to call for a cease-fire in Gaza, an end to the occupation of Palestine and divestment from Zionism. New Orleanians from all walks of life showed up and contributed their time and their voices, their books, food, games, medical supplies and even free massage therapy and counseling.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Daniel José Older
On the two hundred and thirty-third day of the genocide in Gaza, as Palestinians searched for the charred body parts of children who had been burned alive in their tents by an Israeli airstrike, the New York Times published yet another entry in the well-worn genre of essays that equate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Like all of them, this one, by James Kirchick, is long on rhetoric and short on evidence.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown |Daniel José Older
Okay, so the following five books are less Urban Fantasy as a formal subgenre and more “fantasy with a real-world urban setting where the city is so intertwined with the narrative that it’s practically another character”. That latter one is too hard to fit into an SEO-friendly headline, so pithy it is. Let’s start with Carlos Delacruz in gritty Brooklyn. In the first book in this classic urban fantasy trilogy, Carlos is an agent for the New York Council of the Dead.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
euro.eseuro.com | Daniel José Older
Marvel Comics has released a first-issue preview for its upcoming strangeAcademy: Blood Hunt. Daniel José Older and Luigi Zagaria’s Blood Hunt event tie-in series will witness vampire hordes descend on New Orleans, home of the Strange Academy. According to Marvel, the Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #1 preview finds Doyle Dormammu, Zoe Laveau, Shaylee Moonpeddle, Germán Aguilar, and Toth enjoying a day in the city with new student Pia and her rabbit-like family.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
fanboyfactor.com | Daniel José Older
This May, the students of the breakout hit Strange Academy return in their own Blood Hunt tie-in series by Daniel José Older and Luigi Zagaria.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
aiptcomics.com | Daniel José Older |David Brooke
Marvel Comics has been revealing Blood Hunt tie-ins all week, and we’ve got the next reveal with Strange Academy: Blood Hunt. The three-issue series is written by Daniel José Older with art by Luigi Zagaria. The story follows the sorcerers will take it upon themselves to free Earth from the eternal night by diving into the dark pages of the legendary—and immensely dangerous—Darkhold! The first issue is out in comic shops on May 8th. Don’t miss our growing coverage of Blood Hunt.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Gwenda Bond |Jeffrey Ford |Daniel José Older |Jonathan Carroll
If you want to go down a rabbithole of fun debates over who said it and arguments about whether it’s true, search the famous (infamous?) quote, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Leaving aside the fact that dancing about architecture seems fabulous — more dancing about everything, I say—there’s a stickiness to this because it’s perfectly said… Whether it was Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa or someone who is always opining at a bar to the person next to them: It...
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
danieljosolder.substack.com | Daniel José Older
Guante’s resource for artists who want to speak out on Palestine but aren’t sure how: https://racketmn.com/for-artists-and-musicians-who-want-to-speak-out-about-palestine-but-arent-sure-howWriters Against the War on GazaAnd more links fromTake action with Jewish Voice for PeaceTake action with the Palestinian Youth Movement:
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
danieljosolder.substack.com | Daniel José Older
“We could see a merry-go-round, people, we could hear music, and we were terribly afraid that this music would drown us out and that those people would never notice a thing, that nobody in the world would notice a thing: us, the struggle, the dead...That this wall was so huge, that nothing, no message about us, would ever make it out.”Marek Edelman, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, from Shielding The Flame.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
starwars.com | Tessa Gratton |Justina Ireland |Cavan Scott |Daniel José Older
Whether you already love Star Wars: The High Republic or want to give it a try, here’s everything you need to know about this exciting period of Star Wars storytelling. In 1977, audiences heard that “for over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice.” What was Obi-Wan Kenobi actually referring to? Now we know. Centuries before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and the rise of Palpatine’s Galactic Empire, there was a true golden age of the Jedi Order.
