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Mitch McConnell Trashed 'Despicable' Trump In Private After 2020 Election, New Book Says
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mitch McConnell Trashed 'Despicable' Trump In Private After 2020 Election, New Book Says

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month. They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on …

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Pitchfork: The oral history of the music magazine everyone loved to hate.
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Pitchfork: The oral history of the music magazine everyone loved to hate.

Slate  

In January, Condé Nast announced that it was folding Pitchfork into GQ, laying off much of the staff of the influential, independent-minded music publication. Schreiber’s semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a “solid but uninspired effort.” —“Pitchfork Gives Music …

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Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? - “You learn to take care of the sadness of others”
2 years, 2 months ago

Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? - “You learn to take care of the sadness of others”

Hindustan Times  

How do you feel about the award? The international edition published by C Hurst & Co The committee has taken note of the “moral and ethical underpinnings” of your work with Partition survivors. The book, which was published by C Hurst & Co globally, was published under a different title by HarperCollins India – Remnants of a Separation: A History …

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Seminar spotlights stories of internet pioneers
3 years, 5 months ago

Seminar spotlights stories of internet pioneers

China Daily  

Oral History of Internet A seminar was hosted to discuss a new book series Oral History of Internet in Beijing on July 25. The Oral History of Internet project was launched in 2007 by Fang Xingdong, who aims to interview and record the pioneers and key figures in the development of the internet via the method of oral history. This …

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Seminar spotlights stories of internet pioneers
3 years, 5 months ago

Seminar spotlights stories of internet pioneers

China Daily  

Oral History of Internet A seminar was hosted to discuss a new book series Oral History of Internet in Beijing on July 25. The Oral History of Internet project was launched in 2007 by Fang Xingdong, who aims to interview and record the pioneers and key figures in the development of the internet via the method of oral history. This …

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First Denial, Then Fear: Covid-19 Patients in Their Own Words
55 years ago

First Denial, Then Fear: Covid-19 Patients in Their Own Words

Wired  

Welcome to the first of what will be regular chapters of a living oral history of the Covid-19 pandemic, an attempt to capture in real time the stories playing out across our country, in the words of those who are experiencing the crisis. Each Friday, WIRED will publish a new chapter, weaving together as many stories as we can from …

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Black History Month: Oral histories are changing everything we think we know about Caribbean migration to Britain
5 years, 2 months ago

Black History Month: Oral histories are changing everything we think we know about Caribbean migration to Britain

The Independent  

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