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Robert Reich has just published a new ebook — Beyond Outrage. It’s e-only, and the enhanced version includes 5 original videos created by Jacob Kornbluth.
Here’s one of the videos, which outlines what the ebook is all about:
Reich is hoping you’ll read the ebook, and then share your ideas for getting #beyondoutrage on Facebook and Twitter. As he points out, “You need to be outraged, but you also need to move beyond outrage, and take action.”
In words and pictures, writer Cheryl Strayed discusses what she learned, and what she gathered back to herself, while doing a solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail (the subject of her memoir Wild).
Designer Peter Mendelsund explains the cover design for Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet.
Writer Alec Wilkinson, author of The Ice Balloon, discusses how writers should ask themselves “Is this true?” whenever they write something. Says Wilkinson, “I think any writer who can put something on the page, and say to himself or to herself “Is this true?” and of course you understand I don’t mean literally true, I mean true to some emotion, true to some thought, true to some circumstance that was involved in the creation of whatever piece of prose or poetry you’re working on, I think that if you can satisfactorily answer that question to yourself, you’ve probably got material that will be interesting to a reader.”
Be sure to check out Brain Picking’s great article by Michelle Legro on Wilkinson’s book The Ice Balloon.
This is an amazing short film/book trailer for Ben Marcus’s new novel The Flame Alphabet. It was created by Erin Cosgrove. Amazing colors and animation and darkness of story. One of the better book trailers, for sure. In fact, I’d rather not call it a book trailer at all. Short film is much more appropriate.
The short film and the book are getting some very nice attention, as they should be.