Light In August Audiobook
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Gene Smith's Sink
An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith was photography’s most celebrated humanist. As a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and ’50s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of war and disaster, villages and metropolises, doctors and midwives, revolutionized the role of images in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come. When Smith died in 1978, he left behind eighteen dollars in the bank and forty-four thousand pounds of archives. He was only fifty-nine, but he was flat worn-out. His death certificate read “stroke,” but, as was said of the immortal jazzman Charlie Parker, Smith died of “everything,” from drug and alcohol benders to weeklong work sessions with no sleep. Lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith’s stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson began a quest to trace his footsteps. In Gene Smith’s Sink, Stephenson merges traditional biography with rhythmic digressions to revive Smith’s life and legacy. Traveling across twenty-nine states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson profiles a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a Swiss chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; the jazz pianists Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whose music was taped by Smith in his loft; and a series of obscure caregivers who helped keep Smith on his feet. The distillation of twenty years of research, Gene Smith’s Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer’s potent legacy and the subjects around him.
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us not just to hear literature but to hear it in new ways. Bringing together a set of reflections on the enrichments and impoverishments of the reading experience brought about by developments in sound technology, this collection spans the earliest adaptations of printed texts into sound by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and other novelists from the late nineteenth century to recordings by contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Barack Obama at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the voices gathered here suggest, it is time to give a hearing to one of the most talked about new media of the past century.
Nazi Swastikas are IQ Tests - Dr. Rex Curry decoded them (audiobook)
Author: Van Marxveldt
language: en
Publisher: No Pledge Publishing
Release Date: 2025-07-10
Nazi swastikas are IQ tests. Adolf Hitler’s flag emblem represents “S means SOCIALIST.” Germany’s top socialist was also socialism’s top graphic design artist and remains so today. That is one of many amazing discoveries by the Historian Dr. Rex Curry explained in this book for audiobook availability. This book reveals Dr. Curry’s surprises about Adolf Hitler’s socialist symbolism including: (1) Hitler’s socialist salute from USA socialists and their flag Pledge; (2) Hitler’s socialist vocabulary; (3) logos for NSV, SA, SS, VW, Hitler’s flag, and his other socialist emblems. As socialism’s top ad man, Hitler pioneered public relations. This is a classic story, masterfully told, about how one graphic designer can influence culture for generations. Other historians were unable to discover Hitler’s socialist symbolism and branding. Modern political debates often describe only two opposing alternatives as “Nazis” versus “Communists”. The description is a hoax: the words “Nazis” and “Communists” are misleading verbiage to divert attention from the larger shared problem of “Socialism.” Most scholars believed (mistakenly) that Hitler called his group “Nazis” and “Fascists”; they were ignorant of how Hitler self-identified: "SOCIALIST." Ignorant of Hitler’s vocabulary, they spoke the language of lies. Then historians learned about Dr. Curry’s academic breakthroughs. The famed linguist was the only scholar who eschewed popular linguistic misnomers (e.g. Nazi, Fascist, Third Reich, swastika, etc). He taught accurate terminology (e.g. SOCIALISM and SOCIALIST and Hooked Cross or Hakenkreuz). Please join the fight against anti-semantic teachers. Educational Outreach Programs (EOPs) energized by Dr. Curry's successes are the only services that school modern scholars that "Hitler self-identified as Socialist. He did not self-identify as Nazi, nor as Fascist". The re-education resources are unique. If you ever see a sentence like the following one, then you know it was from EOPs for Dr. Curry's philosemantic scholarship: "Hitler didn't call himself Nazi or Fascist, he called himself socialist". Today, Dr. Curry is a trailblazer in linguistics and about Hitler’s nomenclature. The watchdog historian brought revolutionary changes to the English language. He is rewiring brains. He is opening eyes to old lies about German socialism’s true lexicon. More and more commentators and educators are following Dr. Curry’s lead. Linguistic EOPs above led to many amazing historical discoveries, including revelations about Sophie Scholl’s White Rose group; Anne Frank’s Diary; Joseph Goebbels’ “Der Nazi Sozi”; Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”; Martin Niemoller’s verse “First They Came For the Socialists”; the swastika symbol; the hexagram (Star of David); the etymological history of “Roman Salute”; planetary brainwashing; how Wikipedia, and Web Search Engines, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) spew lies about socialism, Marx, Mein Kampf, and Hitler; and more! Except for the American Linguist Laureate Dr. Rex Curry, every other historian did not see how the USA’s Pledge of Allegiance led to Nazi salutes and Nazi behavior; and how the original pledge’s use of military salutes led to Nazi salutes. Also, historians hid how Hitler’s flag was semaphore for “SOCIALISM.” Historians did not see Hitler's complementary semiotics in his NSV, SA, SS, & VW logos, as compared with the logo of Hitler's party: the National Socialist German Workers Party. Even today, only exceptional scholars with extraordinary skills (e.g. Dr. Curry) are able to discern the “S”-letter shape of the NSV’s logo (The National Socialist People's Welfare; in German: Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt). The "S" symbolism is almost as difficult to perceive as in Hitler’s Hakenkreuz (hooked cross). It is as undetectable as in the symbols for the SS and SA (Schutzstaffel and Sturmabteilung). All historians (other than Dr. Curry) did not see how Hitler used his party's symbol to represent "S"-letter shapes for "SOCIALIST." Do you not see?