The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick
As David Remnick’s new biography of Barack Obama shows, the big question of the 2008 campaign — whether America was “ready” for a black president — was answered long before election day.
Meghan Daum, an essayist, novelist, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, traces in her latest book her search for a place to call home. A suburban child, Daum explores how the search for perfect apartments and houses consumed her from New York City to Nebraska to Los Angeles. In the excerpt….
by Leslie Harrison
I wanted to ask how do I do this how do I keep doing this
how do I stop I once required the moon no once your voice
moved the moon for hours across the skylight and the stove
Joseph Menn, author of Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet, wasn’t keen on revealing where he was born. “It makes it easier for people to steal my identity,” he said, smiling. “I was born in the United States.” Menn began his over-20-year career as a journalist at a small-town paper covering cops, “which is how you used to start out in journalism before there were websites you could glom on to in a nice city,” he said. Below, The Financial Times technology writer tells us more about himself.
When Joseph Menn said that the Internet — the system that lets computers talk to each other — will not collapse, a collective sigh of relief went through the audience at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.
But, Menn said, the Internet, and particularly the sites that handle our sensitive financial information, are by no means safe.
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