I feel like everything I’ve been working on is suddenly coming together with a new clarity. On March 18 NPR ran an excellent interview with Tom Burrell, who worked in the advertising industry for 40 years and just published a book called Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. I find Burrell’s story to be [...]
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The Suffocating Aura of Television, 1990 to Now
David Foster Wallace was a new name when an acquaintance lent me the book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Inside the 1997 collection of essays and articles, a bookmark had been placed at a selection titled “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” an 80-odd-page exploration of the relationship between TV and [...]
