hey I'm winston. i work as a product manager for Vox Media. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. I also write a book recommendation newsletter.
Recently read
Sudden Spring
Copyright 2019, University of Georgia Press
Climate Change
The One-Straw Revolution
Copyright 1975, New York Review of Books
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Copyright 2020, AK Press
Disability Theory, Cultural Analysis
Severance
Copyright 2018, Picador USA
Fiction
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Copyright 2021, Verso
Climate Change
The Lightness
Copyright 2020, William Morrow & Company
Fiction
The Last Days of New Paris
Copyright 2018, Del Rey Books
Fiction
Automation and the Future of Work
Copyright 2020, Verso
Tech Industry, Cultural Analysis
Network Effect
Copyright 2020, Tordotcom
Fiction
Migrations
Copyright 2020, Flatiron Books
Climate Change, Fiction
Transcendent Kingdom
Copyright 2020, Knopf
Fiction
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Copyright 2018, Harper Voyager
Fiction
Recent writings
Seeing Like a Tech Company
Seeing Like a State examines the hubris of High Modernist ideology in state schemes, but I see in it the ongoing work of the tech industry.
Message to Chattanooga City Council
Defund the police
Bernie is not an Organizer
I’ve struggled to make sense of the argument that Bernie will be the Organizer in Chief because I can’t find any evidence that he’s doing the work of organizing.
A Different Journalism
Lewis Raven Wallace argues in The View from Somewhere that for journalists, "standing to the side of history is impossible when we are the ones writing it."
You Were Cool
Marking the passage of time by thinking about John Darnielle lyrics (among other things).
Non-fiction reading in 2019
In 2019 I read 73 books; the most I've read in a single year possibly in my entire life.
Noted and Noteworthy
I read a lot of articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page. This is where I can share them.