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We’re always eager to look through The Millions’ massive most anticipated list. This year’s iteration includes a whopping sixteen works in translation, including LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera Velázquez (translated by Christina MacSweeney) and AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Masatsugu Ono (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter), both from Two Lines Press, as well as books from New Directions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Feminist Press, Metropolitan Books, and more.
Our Book of the Day is "Fault Lines" by Meena Alexander (The Feminist Press). Meena Alexander (1951 – 2018) was an Indian American writer, poet, and scholar. Born in India and raised in India and Sudan, she later lived in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College. In her perceptive and lyrical memoir "Fault Lines," she explores the role of writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world. If you'd like to read an "evocative and moving" memoir (Publishers Weekly) that follows one woman’s evolution as a writer at home and in exile, call us on 512-322-2097 or stop by the store, 12-5pm today (please note, we're closed tomorrow and January 1st).
Mary L. Gray, an anthropologist and 2020 MacArthur Fellow, shares her latest insights on tech, injustice, and the post-COVID workforce...
ICYMI, a video of her recent talk "Ghost Work in Pandemic Times" is now up:
https://youtu.be/azBEXFPRTzo Please share, and thanks for watching!
Presented with the Center For The Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center, CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology, The Feminist Press, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, the PublicsLab, The Center for the Humanities, and CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies.
Brava to McNaughton & Gunn client The Feminist Press and Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, author Grace M. Cho!
I’m thrilled to share our final book cover and that preorders are now available via Skylight Books in Los Angeles!! 📖📖📖📖
Wópila to Skylight Books in Los Angeles for partnering with us to make this announcement and wópila to our publisher The Feminist Press!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Three books I loved.
As the genre demands, Sarah Schulman’s “Maggie Terry” (The Feminist Press, 2018) is a whodunit, but somehow the murder doesn’t steer the plot, as the real mystery is whether Maggie can handle the next hour, minute, thought, sober. The book also nods to themes of guilt and victimhood, but in the end, what crackles is a newly gentrified New York. The story of “Mercury Retrograde” (Deluge books, 2020) by Emily Segal follows our twentysomething narrator in the mid-2010s as she accepts a job at eXe, a startup that “had to do with creating a meta-layer of language all over the web, like a sandwich.” Segal’s New York is sleek and young, and capitalism is naturally the sun. “Stage of Recovery” (Divided Publishing ltd, 2021) by Giorgia Sagri consists of a collection of texts: poems, internal Occupy correspondence, essays on her performance and care work spanning a decade. Sagri is at her core an anarchist, hyperaware of the bureaucratization of action. Her words ring with the charred vibrations of a voice exhausted by yelling, always agitating the webs of power that bind energy: art institutions, decision-making apparati, occupations, friendships.
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Join us TODAY (12/20) at 6 PM EST on Zoom for a talk with Mary L. Gray on "“Ghost Work in Pandemic Times."
In the recent book she co-authored, 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, Mary L. Gray exposes the invisible human workforce that powers the web. The reliance on on-demand workers to help AI systems run, Gray argues, has only increased during the pandemic, further eroding full-time employment and benefits. Will the post-COVID society create new forms of ghost work, or can technical innovation assist and empower human labor, such as that of trusted health care workers? Gray—a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and a faculty associate at Harvard University—addresses these urgent questions.
Register here:
https://bit.ly/MaryLGray2021
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Secrets in the Darkness
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Le***an Novelette/available in both e-book & paperback
Author: Helen Dunn
Some strange supernatural experiences happen to the le****ns in Secrets in the Darkness, as they encounter beings who aren't quite human.
Elizabeth's marriage is in trouble can she find happiness with Cassidy? Cassidy has a big secret—can Elizabeth accept it?
Nancy has taken a trip to Asia and returned with a woman too beautiful to be real. She, too, has an unusual secret.
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Join us Thurs, 12/2 @ 6p for "Ghost Work in Pandemic Times" - MacArthur Fellow Mary L. Gray shares her latest insights on tech, injustice & the post-COVID workforce. Register:
https://bit.ly/GhostWorkDec3
Presented with the Center For The Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center, CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology, The Feminist Press, the PublicsLab, The Center for the Humanities, & CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies.
Take a look at new releases from KAYA Press, The Feminist Press, Bamboo Dart Press, Pelekinesis, Jackleg Press, Colorado Review, Texas Review Press, Archipelago Books, Haymarket Books, Et Alia Press, Restless Books, Thirty West Publishing House & more!
Congratulations again to our 2021 Firecracker Awards winners: Soft Skull Press, Lucky Jefferson, Coffee House Press, Mizna, and The Feminist Press! Could your magazine or press be one of next year's winners? Submit by November 15 to find out!
Join us on Thursday, December 2nd at 6 PM EST on Zoom for a talk with Mary L. Gray on "“Ghost Work in Pandemic Times."
In the recent book she co-authored, 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, Mary L. Gray exposes the invisible human workforce that powers the web. The reliance on on-demand workers to help AI systems run, Gray argues, has only increased during the pandemic, further eroding full-time employment and benefits. Will the post-COVID society create new forms of ghost work, or can technical innovation assist and empower human labor, such as that of trusted health care workers? Gray—a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and a faculty associate at Harvard University—addresses these urgent questions.
Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally-registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.
Register here:
https://bit.ly/MaryLGray2021
CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies The Center for the Humanities CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology The Feminist Press Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center #ThePublicsLab CUNY GRADUATE CENTER Public Programs