Currently in the Inkwell
Donn Harris: This Darkness Has Got to Give in conversation with David Gans starting June 18
Donn Harris, author of _This Darkness Has Got to Give: Post-Kindergarten Lessons from the Grateful Dead_, about how the Grateful Dead influenced more than just the music world. The Dead were part of a time not unlike the Camelot we attribute to the Kennedy era, or the gospel and blues foundation of the Civil Rights movement’s powerful social and artistic forces and how they combined to give us our own Renaissance, a rebirth that broke free from an oppressive past.
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Recently in the Inkwell
Philip K. Dick, The Last Ten Years: A Conversation Between a Dark-Haired Girl and Tim Powers, June 1 – 18.
Linda Castellani, Philip Dick’s “dark-haired girl,” and author Tim Powers discuss the the private, often darker, side of the Philip Dick that they knew intimately.
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Forrest Mims: Maverick Scientist, May 21 – June 3, 2024
Forrest Mims is legendary among makers for his dozens of books and hundreds of articles featuring DIY electronics, technology and science projects, which he has been writing since 1972. In his latest book, “Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist,” he shares how and why he became a self-made amateur atmospheric scientist, with dozens of papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, based on data gathered with his own handmade devices.
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Finding Dr. Who: John Hood and Andrew Lewin
On May 11th, a new Dr. Who series will launch featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, his latest companion. The WELL is hosting a discussion of the series that anyone online can read, as well as an internal “Whovians” conference for WELL members. Follow the public conversation as we talk about all things Who – past, present and future.
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Susannah Fox: Rebel Health, beginning April 18, 2024
Health and technology strategist Susannah Fox joins Inkwell to discuss her new book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. The book describes the emerging patient-led healthcare revolution leveraging Internet and other technologies and communities of patients with similar conditions.
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Previously in the Inkwell:
Don Armstrong: The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, March 13 – April 6, 2024
Author Don Armstrong discusses his book, The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, which tells Gleason’s story as the son of a horseplayer who became America’s leading pop music critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into the rock era.
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The State of the News, January 30 – February 12, 2024 with veteran journalists and journalism educators John Schwartz and Paula Span.
A former longtime reporter for The Washington Post, since 2009 Paula Span has been writing the “New Old Age” column for The New York Times. The essays she wrote for another Times column, “Generation Grandparent,” have been adapted into an audio book titled “The Bubbe Diaries” in 2021, and is now working on a book about octogenarians. Paula is a longtime adjunct faculty member of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
John Schwartz recently traded in his 30+-year reporting career for being a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also associate director of U.T.’s Global Sustainability Leadership Institute. John covered science, technology and climate for 21 years at The New York Times, following stints as a business reporter/senior business editor for Newsweek Magazine and a science reporter for The Washington Post. His books include “Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality,” and “This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order.”
The State of the World 2024, January 1 – 16
Once again Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky discuss the State of the World, along with other contributors from within the WELL community. It’s 2024, confusion and chaos reign – can we make sense of it?
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December 5 – 18, 2023, A History of the Transgender Internet
Inkwell welcomes author and scholar Avery Dame-Griff. We’ll be discussing his book, _The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet_. Through extensive archival research and media archeology, Dame-Griff reconstructs the manifold digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who incited the second revolution of the title: the ascendance of “transgender” as an umbrella identity in the mid-1990s.
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The books and commentary we’ve spotlighted over the years run the gamut from timely political commentary, to noteworthy blogs, to gardening and cooking books, to parenting issues, to the social implications of new technologies. We’ve delved into the evolution of online culture and communications technologies, and we’ve explored improvisational and collaborative branches of music history. Who can say what we’ll talk about next?
Previous Discussions
The State of the World 2022
The State of the World 2021
The State of the World 2020
The State of the World 2019
The State of the World 2018
Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality
Roger McNamee: Brain Hacking For Dummies
Ellen Ullman: Life in Code
Julie Rehmeyer: Through the Shadowlands
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