“When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you invent the plane crash; & when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, invented at the same time as technical progress.” - Paul Virilio R.I.P

This is critical exchange. Kavanaugh is clearly lying about Renate. It is obvious to anyone who has ever been in high school or college that this was sexual shaming, calling her easy. He's lying. Lying when everyone knows it.

What I read this week. Luke Barr RussellHoban.org What are you reading? #GretchenRubinReads

As if we needed further proof that librarians know best: L.A. Public Library's list of 2018's best nonfiction includes Sandeep Jauhar's HEART, Luke Barr's RITZ AND ESCOFFIER, and Parker Posey's YOU'RE ON AN AIRPLANE! lapl.org/collections-re…

Author Luke Barr tells the story of the partnership between Ritz and Escoffier that led to the world’s first luxury hotel: kcrw.com/culture/shows/…

My old friend Bob Guccione Jr's interview with Daniel Boulud--wonderlusttravel.com/chef-daniel-bo… WONDERLUST Jason Stahl

Listening to Joe Biden's synapses stresses me out.

Can't wait...

My main takeaway after reading that letter to Erdogan is that if this is how world leaders are allowed to communicate then I have REALLY been overthinking all my emails...

Eating out tonight? Bridget Kendall asks Rebecca Spang Harvard University Press Luke Barr P Van den Eeckhout where the idea of restaurants came from bbc.in/2QDNDdc

📃✒️ According to Publishers Weekly, Nathan Raab's "genuine love of history radiates from the page" in his "brisk and entertaining" THE HUNT FOR HISTORY, written with Luke Barr and out today from Scribner! 📃✒️ publishersweekly.com/978-1-5011-989…

Great piece on a true icon. Can't wait for your book Sara Franklin!

At Literary Hub, read an excerpt of THE HUNT FOR HISTORY, Nathan Raab's book with Luke Barr, out this week from Scribner! lithub.com/the-fraught-an…

great piece Jeff Wise !

In the 1970s a fascinating engineering battle took place between America and Japan for control of the future. The prize was the world we live in now. And one of the key battles took place on your wrist. This is the story of the digital watch war... #FridayFeeling

Fantastic piece from @wbardenwerper Army Ranger School Is a Laboratory of Human Endurance Outside Magazine outsideonline.com/2411895/army-r…

Y'all - check out this new @RVAT2020 video from Tommy - replete with a perfect West Texas accent. Tommy voted for Trump, has never voted for a Democrat in his life, but this year he'll be supporting Joe Biden. "Look this is nuts. We've had enough." - USED TO BE G.O.P.

My good friend Miguel Sancho’s Miguel Sancho new book, More Than You Can Handle. Powerful as hell

"No, this is nothing like the curtain-raiser in a film about a dystopian nightmare. Why do you ask?"