Late afternoon reading time about: love in the age of algorithms.
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IN DEFENSE OF LOVE by Ron Rosenbaum.
Kudos to our author, @tristansnell, author of Taking Down Trump, for his amazing speech at the DNC.
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#DNC #DemocraticNationalConvention
DISTURBING THE BONES by Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers comes out October 15, 2024.
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THE ITALY LETTERS by Vi Khi Nao is out today!
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The Bryant Park Reading Room will be discussing LADY SUSAN by Jane Austen on August 20th, 1-2pm EST. Special thanks to @vikhinao, author of THE ITALY LETTERS, for this lovely video.
THE ITALY LETTERS comes out August 13.
RAT CITY by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden is out now!
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After the Civil War and throughout the twentieth century, cities in northern American states absorbed a huge increase in populations, particularly of immigrants and African Americans from southern states. City governments responded by creating new regulations that were often segregationist — corralling black Americans, for example, into small, increasingly overcrowded neighborhoods, or into high-rise “projects.”
The situation intensified after World War II, as rising crime and racial unrest swept the nation, and blame fell on the crowded conditions of city life. The hardest-hit populations were left marginalized and voiceless.
Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat’s every need was met—except space. The results were cataclysmic.
Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities?
Melville House will be at the Bryant Park Reading Room on July 23rd, 1-2pm. We will be discussing PARNASSUS ON WHEELS by Christopher Morley.
Sign up for the event using the link in our bio for a free copy of the novella. See you there!
BEDLAM CADAVER by Robert J. Lloyd is out now.
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In late 17th Century London rich young women are being kidnapped, then murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society but now a rich gentleman, is falsely accused. To clear his name, he must rely on his abandoned scientific expertise and battle the full force of the British aristocracy.
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This might just be your next waterside read.
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