An American Bookman in England
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic who writes for the Washington Post, and has written a number of books about books, authors and book collecting. On the 9th and 10th October 2017 he met up with Mark Valentine and Iain Smith and we followed him around a few bookshops with our cameras.
On the first day we visited was George Ramsden's Stone Trough Books, a haven of calm and culture in the busy city of York. We then visited Fossgate Books and Ken Spelman's. On the second day we travelled to Carlisle to the vast and labrynthine Bookcase.
The books and authors discussed are listed below.
Stone Trough Books
0:50 - Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and their Circle, published by Michael Russell, 2013 (ISBN 978-0-85955-324-7
If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
Celeste-Marie Bernier, professor of black studies and personal chair in English literature, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, and co-editor-in-chief, Journal of American Studies, Cambridge University Press; in conversation with Walter O. Evans, collector
Walter O. Evans has spent decades collecting, curating, and conserving a wide variety of African American art, music, and literature in an effort to preserve the cultural history of African Americans. Part of his collection focuses on the nineteenth-century formerly enslaved statesman and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895). In addition to inscribed books from Douglass’s and his descendants’ libraries and printed editions of his speeches, the collection contains letters, manuscripts, and photographs. Much of the material is of a personal nature: correspondence between family members, family histories, and scrapbooks compiled by Douglass and his children; the scrapbooks, with their personal documents and familial relationships, illuminate Douglass in ways never before seen. In 2018 Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor of the University of Edinburgh published If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection, a guide to the collection born of a longstanding collaboration between the authors and Dr. Evans. Within its pages they have reproduced letters, manuscripts, and photographs from the collection along with transcriptions and commentary that provide an invaluable resource for Douglass scholars. On Friday, April 26, 2019, in conjunction with the exhibition In the Library: Frederick Douglass Family Materials from the Walter O. Evans Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Bernier speaks with Evans about the role of his collection in scholarship on Douglass and the preservation of Douglass’s legacy for a new generation of Americans.
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Steve Hayden’s 2019 Commencement speech
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Amy Goodman | Talks at Google
Amy Goodman visits Google's Mountain View office to present her book Breaking the Sound Barrier. This event took place on April 30, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate medias lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the experts who, in Goodmans words, know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong, this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said No to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. As Willie Nelson says, There is no one who should be more on the mainstream media, every day reminding us and giving us a glimpse of the power of one.
Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodmans reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington's words, crusading journalism at its best. and, here's an example:
Martin Gardner 101
Google Tech Talk
July 30, 2015
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Presented by Colm Mulcahy
ABSTRACT
What does anybody need to know today about prolific and influential writer Martin Gardner (1914--2010), whose publishing career lasted 80 years?
Martin was most well known for his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, which ran from the 1950s to the 1980s, introducing thousands of budding mathematicians and computer scientists to elegant problems and magical items which still inspire Aha! moments today. He wrote 101 non-fiction books on topics ranging from magic, physics and puzzles to Alice in Wonderland, skepticism, philosophy and religion.
Martin Gardner 101 will cover the basics, as we approach his 101st birthday this October, surveying some of what The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had achieved and the thought-provoking legacy he left behind.
Twitter users may enjoy following @WWMGT (What Would Martin Gardner Tweet) and @MGardner100th.
About the Speaker
Colm Mulcahy is Professor of Mathematics at Spelman College, in Atlanta, and author of the book Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2013). His original puzzles and card effects have appeared in the New York Times, and he has blogged for Scientific American and Huffington Post. He was fortunate to know Martin Gardner for the last decade of his life. He tweets at @CardColm.