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VIOLETTE JEAN has an ebook sale
at BOOKSHOP.ORG
Don't miss it.Super Price $1.99
From JUNE 1 to JUNE 8
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# readitclub
#books
#bookstodon
#violettejeanbooks.com
#booksky
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#nybooks.comENJOY!
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What a great lede: "Bret Easton Ellis first saw the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo in February 1980, the month it opened, when he was fifteen years old. He has since seen it more than thirty-five times. “Looking back,” he wrote in the essay collection White (2019), “the impact American Gigolo had on me is impossible to tally.” .... #NYBooks #bretEastonEllis #bookstodon
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“If Silent Spring is about rupture, then the overarching project of Carson’s sea writing was to achieve a feat of connection—these are profoundly holistic books, tracing the bonds between natural forces and organisms.”
Rebecca Giggs writes of Rachel Carson’s ocean books for @nybooks. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-sea-trilogy-rachel-carson/ Illustration by Andrea Ventura #rachelcarson #nybooks -
How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1998)
... I hope to offer a perspective that differs from the views of those who say that rapid population growth is no problem at all and those who say that population growth is the only problem. A rounded view of the facts should immunize us against both cornucopians and doomsayers. I give more details in my recent book How Many People Can the Earth Support? ...
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/10/08/how-many-people-can-the-earth-support/
Paywall: https://archive.is/E5AB8
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450230
#Population #Overpopulation #CarryingCapacity #LimitsToGrowth #BigProblems #JoelECohen #RockefellerUniversity #ColumbiaUniversity #NYBooks #NewYorkReviewOfBooks #Books #BookReviews #Reviews
