ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Kim Fisher
Cofounder, AudioBasket
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, by David Remnick "The Lithuanian independence movement in 1991 was a peaceful protest until the Soviet tanks came in and killed 15 people. But on Soviet television, Alexander Nevzorov portrayed it as frenzied Lithuanians assaulting Soviet soldiers. Nevzorov was known as the 'Ice-T of Soviet television' - a young, hip propaganda artist for a generation of Russians who didn't believe the men in gray suits. I worked in Lithuania for three years, and it's a different mind-set there - people only cared about today because they couldn't trust the currency, didn't know if Russia would invade again, and thought the nearby Chernobyl-style reactor might blow any time."
Neil Gaiman
Author, American Gods
Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings, by Zora Neale Hurston "I came across Hurston while researching folklore for American Gods. She was quoted everywhere, and once I looked her up, I realized I had to read everything she ever wrote. She's an amazing source for African-American folk stories, and her writing is an absolute delight. It takes you into someone else's head with natural ease. Her work reminds us of why we have and need mythology. I see her influence in contemporary science fiction, like Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber, which is about a Caribbean-colonized planet."
STREET CRED
airFX
Twisted Metal: Black
Sony DCR-TRV830
Extensis
Intoxicating Minds: How Drugs Work, by Ciaran Regan
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Serials 2000
ReadMe
Music
The Mummy Congress, by Heather Pringle
2ner and 2nerxmitter
SunPal
Just Outta Beta
Sniper Scope
Balthaser:Fx
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