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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: "Everything You Need to Know About Groundbreaking Queer Feminist Science Fiction Writer Joanna Russ"

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An Interview With a Librarian - Jon Michaud

An Interview With a Librarian – Jon Michaud

The link below is to an interview with a librarian – Jon Michaud.

For more visit: https://bookmarks.reviews/the-radical-idea-of-the-public-library/

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Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement?

Ben Winters’s “Golden State” takes place in a fact-obsessed society.

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Reviewed by Jon Michaud

“Imagine a country so traumatized by deception, lies and gaslighting that it opts to prioritize facts and truth-telling above all else. Here’s what your life would be like: Ubiquitous video cameras would capture your every word and action and feed them into a permanent record of all that is “Objectively So.” Like every other citizen, you would keep a detailed account of your life, gathering diary pages, receipts and annotated conversations, and sealing them in a Mylar bag each night. If there’s ever a question about what happened on a given day, this archive can be accessed to determine the truth. If you were found to have lied or fabricated any fact in the record, you could face imprisonment or even exile. And in accordance with the national ethos, all fictional storytelling — whether on the page, the stage or the screen — is outlawed. No novels, movies, plays or Internet. Would this be a paradise or a hell for you?”

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Or a Hannibal Lecter Murder Scene

"With its vaulted atrium, marble flooring, and wood-panelled shelving units, Rizzoli looked like the private library of a Medici prince, the sort of place where an Umberto Eco character would hunt down an ancient secret."

— Jon Michaud, in The New Yorker