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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | David Hajdu
Our conceptions of artifice and authenticity have always been mutually dependent. Ever since machines began to change the world and the way humans have thought about it, establishing the idea of the natural in opposition to the mechanical, new mechanized or electronic ways of doing work and making art have redefined the methods that preceded them or, in some cases, defined the old ways for the first time.
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2 months ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Mike Colias |David Hajdu |Henry Lien |Ethan Kross
I’m pleased to share what I consider the most promising, must-read nonfiction titles scheduled for release in February 2025. These titles make up our third group of nominees for Season 26 of the Next Big Idea Club. Our Next Big Idea Club curators—Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink—will review my selections and narrow the list down to a handful of finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
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2 months ago | 
libraryjournal.com | David Hajdu
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Feb. 2025.
304p.
ISBN 9780393540833. $32.99.
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Hadju (
Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction), music editor at The Nation, asserts that technology has long assisted inventiveness rather than replaced or combatted it. He traces the interaction of machines—including cameras, drawing instruments, music boxes, player pianos, theremins, electronic drums, and Moog synthesizers—with the visual and auditory arts.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
thenation.com | David Hajdu
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With a hostile incoming administration, a massive infrastructure of courts and judges waiting to turn “freedom of speech” into a nostalgic memory, and legacy newsrooms rapidly abandoning their responsibility to produce accurate, fact-based reporting, independent media has its work cut out for itself.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
newsdirectory3.com | Mike Colias |Madeline Mann |David Hajdu |Henry Lien
Here are notable nonfiction books releasing in February 2025. These titles are nominees for Season 26 of the Next Big Idea Club. Curators Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink will review the selections and choose finalists.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Mike Colias |Madeline Mann |David Hajdu |Henry Lien
I’m pleased to share what I consider the most promising, must-read nonfiction titles scheduled for release in February 2025. These titles make up our third and final group of nominees for Season 26 of the Next Big Idea Club. Our Next Big Idea Club curators—Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink—will review my selections and narrow the list down to a handful of finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | David Hajdu
The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for some 15 years on an original retelling of the much-retold story of spiritual brokerage. In his version, which he conceived as a musical dark comedy, the Lord and the devil make a bet for eternal custody of the soul of an impressionable student at the University of Notre Dame.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thenation.com | David Hajdu
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jeet Heer |John Nichols |Kate Wagner |David Hajdu
Current IssueBen Tanaka, the anti-hero of Adrian Tomine’s bleakly hilarious graphic novel Shortcomings (2017), has a secure place in the great American literary tradition of bad boyfriends. This is a crowded lineage that runs from Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams to Norman Mailer’s Stephen Rojack, Saul Bellow’s Moses Herzog to John Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
thenation.com | David Hajdu |Mychal Denzel Smith
There’s no knowing what the late composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arthur Russell had in mind when he recorded the composition he titled “Picture of a Bunny Rabbit,” an eight-minute piece for electric cello that serves as the title track on the latest collection of his previously unreleased recordings. Still, the songs made me think of something Pete Seeger once said: “The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch.
