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deadpresidents · 5 months

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"[President] Biden's primary point of comparison wasn't really [Franklin D.] Roosevelt; it was [Barack] Obama. By the end of their Presidency, Biden was so in sync with his boss that the pair had what the journalist Jonathan Alter described as 'secret code.' When Obama tipped back his chair in meetings, Biden took that as a cue to ask provocative questions that Obama wanted answered but didn't want to raise himself for fear of shifting the tenor of a meeting. But Biden also chafed at the constraints of his job -- and if Obama sometimes rolled his eyes at him, he would roll his own right back. There was the tinge of class rivalry to their gibes. The lunch-pail cornball and the effete professor culturally chafing each other. Biden told a friend that Obama didn't know how to say fuck you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower."

-- Franklin Foer, on the unique dynamic of the relationship between then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama Administration, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), available now via Penguin Press.

#Presidents #Presidential Relationships #Presidential Friendships #Presidential Partnerships #History #Politics #Barack Obama #President Obama #Obama Administration #Vice Presidents #Presidency #Joe Biden #Vice President Biden #President Biden #Biden Administration #Franklin Foer #The Last Politician #The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future #Penguin Press

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youcanlearnfrombooks · 1 month

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Al Pacino is listed as the narrator of the Audible version of his memoir, "Sonny Boy," which will be published on Oct. 8. The listening time is set at 15 hours.

#al pacino #actor #the godfather movies #michael corleone #new memoir #fall books #sonny boy #penguin press #audible #serpico #dog day afternoon #twitter

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poetsandwriters · 2 years

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Celeste Ng, author of Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press,2022), in “Ravenous With Story,” featured in the November/December 2022 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

#Celeste Ng #Our Missing Hearts #Penguin Press #Poets #Writers #Writing #Writer's Community #Writer's Block #inspiration #Quote

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itsblosseybitch · 23 days

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Griffin Dunne recording the audiobook for his memoir!

IG caption reads: “Day one of reading the audiobook for The Friday Afternoon Club. Reading it out loud was more exhausting than writing it! Comes out June 11th. @penguinpress”

#griffin dunne #the friday afternoon club #penguin press

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nymph3ttie · 24 days

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Penguin press has got to be my favorite publishing company. Not because they’re translations are top and the most accurate or because they really embody the book. Mainly because I think the little penguin on the covers are very cute and make my silly little girl brain go “aww cute penguin”

#literature #penguin press

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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CBS News' John Dickerson asked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era, "How long has Donald Trump been in your head, or you in his?"

"At least 11 years for this level of intensity," she replied.

"And what's it like to have Donald Trump in your head, or be a part of his thinking, for 11 years?"

"I had one of his old friends say to me, 'He doesn't wear well over time.' And I think that the collective we have experienced that at various points."

Haberman has been covering Trump since the late 1990s, as a metro reporter for the New York tabloids. In 2016 alone she had 599 bylines or co-bylines in The Times – more than one a day – and that pace has slowed only slightly in the years since.

Now, she's written a book about him: "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" (published Tuesday by Penguin Press).

Dickerson asked, "I want to read from something you wrote: 'To fully reckon with Donald Trump, the presidency and his political future, people need to know where he comes from.' What do you mean, where he comes from?"

"New York in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, was a very, very unique setting," Haberman said, "because of this combination of dysfunctional and sometimes corrupt forces that touched on media, that touched on City Hall, that touched on the political party system in the various boroughs, that touched on how real estate projects got done, and which touched on racial tribalism, John, and that is a big piece of what he took from his life in New York."

The current incarnation of that racial tribalism shows up in some of Haberman's scoops about Trump's presidential years. Like other books of the Trump era, "Confidence Man" has gotten attention for new revelations: Trump considered firing his son-in-law, and engaged in casual transphobia. But Haberman's larger goal is to put the scoops in the book, and her Times coverage, in an archeological framework, to chart a 50-year, steady, unchangeable DNA.

She said, "Donald Trump is generally the same, depending on the context. And he tended to treat the White House as if he was still in a real estate office dealing with local county leaders, as if it was still 1980."

"What are the elements in the Donald Trump playbook that he's had his whole life?" asked Dickerson.

"He has a handful of moves that he has used forever. And people tend to impute a ton of strategy to what he's doing. But really, there are these moves. And it's the quick lie, it's the backbiting with one aide versus another, it is the assigning blame to someone else. All of this, again, is about creating a sense of drama, a sense of chaos, and often, John, about keeping the responsibility off him."

Haberman's reporting has irritated and embarrassed Trump. Yet, he agreed to sit down with her three times this past summer.

Dickerson asked, "Were you surprised he talked to you for your book?"

"No; he talked to everybody for their books," she replied. "It's an almost reflexive need to sell himself."

"He said at one point to somebody else, but with you in his presence, [that] you were like his psychiatrist?"

"He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist. This is not a specific-to-me thing. This is what he does. He works everything out in real time with everyone."

Haberman offers new detail about Trump's refusal to accept defeat in 2020, quoting sources who heard Trump say, "We're never leaving."

Dickerson asked, "Donald Trump's reluctance to leave office, was that part of that playbook that developed so many years ago, or is that something new?"

"It was both," she said. "It was part of the theme of him believing that everything was always going to work out with him, because it always had. Whether it was his father helping navigate systems for him or helping him financially, or elected officials lining up for him, he always believed things would work out. And after November 3, 2020, it became clearer with each passing day that that was not going to happen, and he did not know how to handle it."

When he did leave the White House, he wasn't empty-handed, as FBI agents found in that search of his Florida home.

"When Donald Trump referred to things in the White House as his possessions, there was a long history of him doing that," Dickerson said. "Do you then think that that's why he took those classified documents?"

"I do, actually. I think it's also possible he took them for another reason, and we don't know what that is. He sees everything in terms of leverage, whether he can have an edge over someone else. He definitely likes trophies."

Trump is facing legal peril in multiple jurisdictions: A fraud suit in New York; election interference charges in Georgia; the January 6th riot investigation; and then those documents from Mar-a-Lago, where he's mostly holed up these days.

Dickerson asked, "You write that when you saw him after he left the White House, that he seemed shrunken?"

"In one of the interviews, he had very visibly lost weight, and so that was certainly physically shrunken, but he just seemed diminished," said Haberman. "And one of the things that I discovered as I was talking to people through the course of the last year is that he became this almost Charles Foster Kane-like figure who was sort of roaming around his club and existing in his own world and having to be reminded of when holidays were, someone totally out of the rhythms of normal daily life."

"What's your view of whether he'll run again?"

"With the caveat that I don't know and that I could be proven wrong, I think he's backed himself into a corner where he has to run," said Haberman. "I think that he needs the protections that running for President (he thinks) would afford him in combating investigations that he calls a 'witch hunt.' And it is the way that he fundraises and makes money. So much of his identity now is about being a politician. So, I expect that he will run. That doesn't mean that even if he declares a candidacy, that he will stay in the whole time."

Whether he runs or not, Trump has left his mark on the GOP, whose national party labeled the January 6th riots "legitimate discourse," and where a third of the Republican candidates running for election in 2022 have adopted his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

"Has he essentially transferred the skills of the New York real estate world, as strange as that is, into a political party?" asked Dickerson.

"He has transferred how he views the New York real estate industry into the Republican Party," Haberman replied, "and not just the New York real estate industry, but the New York political system. We've seen it in ways that are overt with the Republican Party in terms of comments that get made at rallies, and we have seen it in subtler ways in terms of how candidates deal with journalists or how they engage with basic facts sets."

"Not everyone has reacted in some form of emulation to Donald Trump, but most of them have."

Haberman writes that Trump told her how much easier his life would have been if he'd never run for President. And he looked back not on what he'd accomplished, but on what the presidency had meant for Donald Trump.

Dickerson said, "When Donald Trump asked himself in your presence 'If I had to do it all over again,' what did he say?"

"What he said was the answer is yes," Haberman replied, "because the way he looks at it is, he has so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are. And it was very evident that he saw the presidency as the ultimate vehicle to fame."

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discoursets · 1 year

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starting my first knausgård.

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whatsemilyreading · 2 months

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TITLE | anyone’s ghost

AUTHOR | august thompson

RATING | ★★★★★

goodreads | storygraph | bookshop.org

It took three car crashes to kill Jake.

Theron David Alden is there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, when he’s fifteen and anxious, and Jake’s seventeen and a natural; then six years later in New York City, those too-short, ecstatic, painful nights that change both their lives forever—the end of the dream and the longing for the dream and the dream itself, all at once.

Theron is not there for the third crash.

And yet, their story contains so much joy and the glorious, stupid simplicity of a boyhood joke; the devastation of insecurity; the way a great song can distill a universe; the limits of what we can know about each other; the mysterious, porous, ungraspable fault line between yourself and the person you love better than yourself; the beautiful, toxic elixir of need and hope and want.

Anyone’s Ghost is August Thompson’s debut novel, a coming of age story about grief, surviving, first love, and coming to terms with who you are. It closely follows Theron David Alden, our protagonist and narrator, who spends the school year with his mom in Los Angeles and summers with his dad in the small town in New Hampshire where he grew up. It’s there that he meets Jackson Siegel – Jake – over the summer that he turns sixteen, the summer that changes him forever.

Readers go into this novel knowing Jake and Theron will be involved in three car accidents – the first two they survive together, and the third takes Jake’s life, fifteen-hundred miles away from Theron, nearly a decade after the two of them speak, really speak, for the last time. So it’s not his death that shakes us, takes us by surprise, but the slow, tender way that their relationship develops over that single, fateful summer, in between shifts at the town’s lone hardware store and drunken evenings spent parked at the local Walmart, Metallica and Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie soundtracking their lives. The way it shifts into something less corporeal, something solid, during a blackout in Manhattan. It’s difficult not to preemptively trace the path of their involvement in one another’s lives – though it’s predictable, it doesn’t bore. I sat up and read the second of this book over the course of four hours, cried my way through the final part, laid awake at 1:30 in the morning, unsure of how I was supposed to just…go to sleep after all of that.

To say that this book was good would be an understatement. It’s more like it completely rearranged me. Its reflections on love, on power imbalances, on grieving what you still have, on hesitancy to act for fear you’ll lose it all – all of it was so, so powerful. Theron’s internal strife, his inability in his youth to come to terms with what he feels for Jake, only later in life able to call it what it really is. It’s all what makes Anyone’s Ghost beautiful.

In the acknowledgements, Thompson thanks Metallica, The National (from whom I believe he nabbed the book’s title), Kacey Musgraces, even “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino, but it was the mention of Charlotte Wells, who wrote and directed the 2022 film “Aftersun,” that stopped me in my tracks and led me down (yet another) “Aftersun” rabbit hole. I know this book had to have been written before the film came out, but it’s not a stretch, I think, to be able to draw a connection – the protagonists of each living on borrowed time with their loved ones without really knowing it. I stumbled across an interview between the filmmaker, The xx’s Romy Madley Croft, and Document writer Megan Hullander, in which she writes that, for Wells, “joy and grief are inextricable,” and I think the same can be said for August Thompson. Many times throughout the novel, Theron ruminates on something similar, a string that ties it all together, that you can’t lose without having loved, that you can’t love without the promise of losing.

This also led me to a lot of listening while I was writing this review – to Metallica’s “Orion,” and to The National’s album High Violet, in particular. Almost every song on that album was a punch to the chest when I thought about it in connection with this book and its characters. From “Anyone’s Ghost”: “Didn’t wanna be your ghost / Didn’t wanna be anyone’s ghost / But I don’t want anybody else.”

Jonathan Safran Foer said this book will make you cry – and he was right. It’s impossible not to feel the emotion seeping out of these pages. The intimacy between the characters becomes an intimacy between author and reader. Their joy, rage, sorrow, wildness, all of it becomes ours. I know Anyone’s Ghost will haunt me for a long time to come. It’s out in July, and though I’ve recently become more and more hesitant to recommend books – I know we all have limited time, energy, and resources to devote to books we might not like, but fuck it. This book was so incredible, and I see it releasing in the summer to triumphant praise. It’s extraordinary, exactly as the summary of the book says. I’ve never read anything that made me feel quite like I did when I read this.

#review #literary fiction #2024 release #penguin press #anyone's ghost #book review #whatsemilyreading

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thegirlwiththelantern · 10 months

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New and Upcoming Nonfiction in 2023

. Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey | 01 / 06 / 23 – Bloomsbury Sigma The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn’t the only planet to harbour volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with them. Our own Moon, which is now a dormant piece of rock,…

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#2023 #Bloomsbury Publishing #Bloomsbury Sigma #Books #Mudlark #new releases #Orion Books #Particular Books #Pelagic Publishing #Penguin #Penguin Press #Profile Books #releases #Torva #William Collins

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suiheisen · 12 days

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the h in nhl stands for homoerotic

bonus intricate rituals:

#this is my new fave live game :')#chiarot tried to scruff sid and my precious gigantic baby son drew said: NO!!!!!!#also it is my duty as a crazy sid/ek fan to say that after sid was freed from the box and was later back on the bench #ek who was still on ice circled back and skated towards him #and tenderly held him by the chin and said something to him (sweet dirty nothings i'm sure)... sid giggled like a schoolgirl about it #anyway. again a very good game for me sid/ek-wise #ek with his arms open waiting for his victory prize aka sid barrelling into him after the otgwg and keeping his face pressed close...#if they don't simply fuck dirty on ice during the er1k celebration...#sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #ben chiarot #detroit red wings #again #long post

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deadpresidents · 1 month

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I'm just taking a moment to let everyone know that Steve Coll's new book, THE ACHILLES TRAP: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), is incredible and you should all read it. It's available now from Penguin Press.

#Books #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #Steve Coll #The Achilles Trap #Saddam Hussein #Iraq War #American Invasion of Iraq #Saddam #Iraq #Middle East #History #Penguin Press #Penguin Random House #CIA

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stilouniverse · 1 year

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"The intimate City. Walking New York", a cura di Michael Kimmelman, Penguin Press, novembre 2022

Michael Kimmelman, nativo di New York e principale critico di architettura del New York Times, durante la pandemia scrisse una e-mail a un gruppo di amici e colleghi, architetti, storici, scrittori, invitandoli a fare una passeggiata per la città, preferibilmente in un posto significativo per loro o comunque ciò che di essa amavano. Come risultato è nato un libro a più voci e illustrato con…

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#"The intimate City. Walking New York"#a cura di Michael Kimmelman #Penguin Press

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winningthesweepstakes · 1 year

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The Climate Book created and compiled by Greta Thunberg

The Climate Book created and compiled by Greta Thunberg. Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2023. 9780593492307 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover What did you like about the book? Greta Thunberg has produced a book that addresses all the issues involved in climate change. The book is divided into five parts, with her providing a brief overview before turning…

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#Penguin Press #Penguin Random House

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jewishbookworld · 2 years

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Love by Maayan Eitan

An incendiary tale of sex work from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novel about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly vulnerable and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan’s debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and…

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#Jewish Book Council #Maayan Eitan #Penguin Press

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thingsorganizedneatly · 2 months

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From the music video for Tessa Violet - "Bad Ideas"

Directed by - Jade Ehlers Produced by - Jade Risser Director of Photography - Nathan Presley Production Designer - Jonathan Denmark Editor/Effects/AC - Manny Figs Colorist - Jade Ehlers Make up - Cassandra Byers Hair - Alex Thao Jumpsuits from Big Bud Press

#things organized neatly #books #color #green #big bud press #music video #penguin #vintage #tessa violet #violet #film #video

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vintagewildlife · 1 year

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Adélie penguin By: Coujean / Jacana Press Agency From: Éditions Rencontre Cards 1975

#adélie penguin #penguin #bird #1975 #1970s #Coujean #Jacana Press Agency #Éditions Rencontre Cards

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