Oliver Willis

I am currently reading The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. It is an excellent book and I highly recommend it, it basically discusses the role journalism played in the civil rights movement.
* Objectivity. One of the themes running through the book is the role northern journalism [...]

I just got Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press by Eric Boehlert, who works where I do and shares a birthday with me though I’ve never actually met him in real life.
I also got The Final Four of Everything. I’m still not sure why the publisher sent it to [...]

Ezra Klein pointed to this devastating review of Chesa Boudin’s Gringo: A Coming-of-Age in Latin America, and I couldn’t help feel as if I had read that sort of pretentious liberal fart-twaddletm before. And I had! It was the very funny Neal Pollack’s The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal [...]

Received
Nixonland by Rick Perlstein. I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I finished Before The Storm.
Reading
The Race Beat – About how the media, especially black media, affected the Civil Rights struggle
Crusader Nation – I currently have a fascination with the pre-WWI era, especially with regards to TR, trust-busting, and the muckrakers. One of these [...]

Recently sent to me
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics by Glenn Greenwald of Salon and blogosphere fame
Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint
Recently read
God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback [...]