Voracious DPC

Category: Books and Writers

  • Happy Birthday, Jimmy!

    On October 1, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 96th birthday. In celebration, here’s Jimmy expressing his thanks to The Allman Brothers for their role in helping him become president. “Gregg Allman was a very close friend of mine. If it hadn’t been for Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers I never would have…

  • “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde”

    Parul Sehgal’s review of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” is a beautiful reflection on the depth and brilliance of Lorde’s work and continued influence.  “Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. Black writers can be treated as oracles, read symbolically, with lazy reverence; their work is flattened into self-help…

  • Links for the Voracious

    A little something from around the internet. “To be able to have the ability to bring other people in, who I think are massively more talented, it’s something that brings me so much excitement.” -Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure” “And of course we want an economic recovery! But we’re never going to have…

  • The One and Only Yola

    Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…

  • “Life is art, it’s connections,” he said. “I want to live my life fully, to love fully, instead of just existing. I try to enjoy every moment — and those moments, for me, are understanding art.”- Ben Barcelona, superfan of LA’s art museums

    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-23/81-year-old-ben-barcelona-lives-and-breathes-museums-but-what-happens-when-culture-collapses

  • Gordon Sondland’s Greatest Hits:

    “I’m A Throw You Under A Bus” “Everyone Was In The Loop” “Quid Pro Better Believe It’s Quo” “Let Me Read These Emails To You” “Zelensky (House impeachment remix)” “I Bought An Ambassadorship, I’m Not Going to Prison” “Me and Mr. Giuliani” “Devin Nunes Eyes” #demdebate

  • We Wear the Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and…

  • Dispatch From Ontario, Oregon

    On a Monday morning, I flew from Portland, Oregon to Boise, Idaho. From Boise, I drove an hour west back to Oregon. The drive was longer than the flight. When I got out of my rental car in Ontario, it was 102 degrees. My hosts and colleagues told me it was a dry heat, so…

  • Toni Morrison in Her Own Words

    The function of freedom is to free someone else. 1. Whatever the work is, do it well- not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you…