The Facebook app Instagram has been credited with a serious revival in poetry. Poets such as Nikita Gill, r.h. sin, Rupi Karr, Neal Sehgal, and others often have hundreds of thousands of followers who not only like their posts but also buy their books. Instagram ha clearly had a major impact on the reading (and buying) of poetry. Kyle Chayka at The New Republic asks a different but related question: has Amazon changed fiction?
How to make yourself the election issue: Billionaire George Soros is the political right’s favorite villain. He gives money to leftist causes and candidates, and many people argue that his giving is sparked by a hatred of the United States (he does hold U.S. citizenship). And he and his various organizations have contributed to the elections of numerous city prosecuting attorneys in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other places. (The one in St. Louis is so controversial that even the progressive St. Louis Post-Dispatch routinely calls her out for office turnover, legal missteps, and bad policy decisions.) And now Soros has gone a step further – he’s contributed $500,000 to fight a ballot measure in Austin, Texas, that would require certain levels of police staffing. The contribution was made after the deadline for submitting contribution reports, which meant it wouldn’t be included in the final published report before the election.
Big Tech censorship is a hot discussion item, and Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube often seem to go out of their way to make stupid decisions (mistakes) guaranteed to get conservatives mad. Chris Martin at Terms of Service turns his attention to another group that sees censorship lurking behind every smile of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg – Christians. And Mart argues that censorship isn’t Christians’ biggest social media problem.
More Good Reads
Poetry
‘The Shepherd Who Remained in the Fields’ and ‘On Falling Asleep While Praying’ – Duane Caylor at Society of Classical Poets.
Poetry and Holding the Center – Glenn Arbery at The Imaginative Conservative.
The Test – A Spoken-Word Poem – Seth Lewis.
Snow Moon over Singer Island – Paul Mariani.
Life and Culture
Wendell Berry and Rebuilding Rural Communities – James Decker at West of 98.
Autumnal Reflections on America – Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative.
The classroom culture war – Frank Furedi at The Critic Magazine.
The sorrows and occasional joys of speaking while masked (and being spoken to) – David Murray at Writing Boots.
Writing and Literature
My Life as a Ghostwriter – Jonathan Kay at Quillette.
On the Invention of Fiction – Lee Child at CrimeReads.
Faith
Redemption Gives Us a Glimpse of True Shalom – Hugh Whelchel at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.
The Stubborn Love of Imagination – Millie Sweeney at Story Warren.
Cultural Christianity Gave Us the Golden Age of CCM – Samuel James at Insights.
American Stuff
The Key to Richmond – Edward Alexander at Emerging Civil War.
The Boone Family, the Struggle for Kentucky, and the Kidnapping That Rocked Colonial America – Matthew Pearl at CrimeReads.
Afghanistan
Desperate and in hiding, Afghan artists beg international community for help – Sarvy Geranpayeh at The Art Newspaper.
Lessons from Kabul – Robert Kelbe at Gentle Reformation.
This is My Song (Finlandia) – VOCES8
Painting: Portrait of Fred Uhlman, oil on canvas by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948).
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