In which I examine Musk’s favorite books to figure out what they reveal: Foundation Trilogy, Stranger in a Strange Land, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Atlas Shrugged, Waiting for Godot, and Lord of the Rings.
Tag Archives: Joseph Heller
What Musk’s Favorite Books Reveal
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Any Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Elon Musk, Foundation Trilogy, Golden age of science fiction, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Beckett, Stranger in a Strange Land, Waiting for Godot Comments closed
Reading Lit to Cope with Prison
In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1Q84, Alan Moore, American Gods, Bohumil Hrabal, Daniel Genis, Franz Kafka, Good as Gold, Haruki Murakami, Herzog, Jaroslav Hasek, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Prison, reading in prison, Saul Bellow, Sentence, The Good Soldier Svejk Comments closed
Mitch McConnell, Master of Catch-22
Mitch McConnell has invoked a Catch-22 to make sure Trump doesn’t face Congressional accountability for inciting an insurrection.
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Trump’s Catch-22 Doctoring of Maps
Thursday In case you haven’t heard the story, apparently someone in the Trump administration doctored a hurricane map to cover for the president’s fabricated assertion that Dorian posed a threat to Alabama. The incident reminded Politico’s Jeff Greenfield of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The doctoring involved using a sharpie to extend the hurricane track (see picture […]
GOP Releases Catch-22 on Gun Control
To avoid doing anything about the bump stock that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock used, the GOP has invoked Catch-22.
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Great Pro-War Literature Doesn’t Exist
In which I argue that great pro-war literature doesn’t exist, including “The iliad” and “War and Peace.” (Both works are magnificent; I just don’t see them as pro-war.)
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Charge of the Light Brigade", Alfred Lord Tennyson, anti-war literature, Catch 22, Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homer, Iliad, Leo Tolstoy, Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer, Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, war, War and Peace Comments closed
The God-Given Freedom to Mooch
Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy resembles the farmer in “Catch-22” who complains about the government except when it pays him not to grow crops.
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