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Cam

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I'm a reader and musician in South Florida.

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Laila Lalami: The Dream Hotel (Hardcover, 2025, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

A novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even …

A great and thoughtful book

Really interesting thinking through life as the child of immigrants (a Moroccan American) in the US, trauma, technology, the data infused world we're living in, and most of all the implacable logic of incarceration.

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …

Extremely good and honestly important to read at the current moment. I think the concepts in here lay out a lot about the way our media landscape has become bifurcated, the world of alternative facts that contain just enough regular facts to be dangerous.

I often joke that right wing media is just saying normal good and desirable things in a scary tone of voice, and frankly I think that this book identifies something similar but with receipts and research.