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Dec 9, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Being Heumann memoirs written by disability activist Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner about how the treatment of Americans with disabilities has changed during her lifetime.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending All the World Beside a Colonial-era historical fiction novel by Garrard Conley, the author of Boy Erased.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Monstrilio a tender horror novel by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. I didn’t open Monstrilio expecting this book to break my heart, but over the ensuing pages I found myself increasingly attached to its characters in a way that horror writing doesn’t often encourage.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell |Sean Michaels
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Do You Remember Being Born? A Novel by Sean Michaels. Many of us have some base level of anxiety regarding artificial intelligence. It doesn’t necessarily make me happier to know that somewhere there could be a program analyzing the words I’m saying right now and how I say them in an effort to mimic my humanity.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, a memoir by reality television pioneer Holly Madison. Over the past few years, we have seen a public reckoning over the way society treated young women in the public eye at the dawn of the new millennium.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Barry Vitou |Anne-Marie Ottaway |Cindy Laing |Kevin Warburton |Karen Cheung |Michael Maxwell | +4 more
We reflect on some of the key themes in the compliance and investigations space in the first quarter of the year and set out our predictions for 2024. Changes to UK corporate liability for financial crimesIn the UK, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) was passed late last year which introduced two major changes: a new failure to prevent fraud offence (due to come into force later in 2024) and a new law for attributing corporate liability.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope by Patty Wetterling with Joy Baker. I was living in the Twin Cities when authorities found Jacob Wetterling’s remains and caught his killer, and I remember my coworkers reacting as if the boogeyman himself had just been arrested.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen. What comes to mind when you hear the name “Cabrini-Green”? Do you think about the Candyman movie that was set at the infamous public housing project and filmed on location? Do you remember Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne moving into a Cabrini-Green apartment briefly during the 1980s for a publicity stunt?
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky. Although I’m a big nonfiction reader, I often shy away from reading about climate change because of the anxiety it spikes in me.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Michael Maxwell
This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I am recommending Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics by Ronald Brownstein. Every once in a while, throughout history, a city will rear its head and assert itself over the cultural zeitgeist spreading its influence far beyond its own city limits. Think Weimar Berlin, Seattle in the 1990s, or swinging 60s London.
