.: the better angels of our nature: how violence has declined

Sunday, November 13, 2011

the better angels of our nature: how violence has declined

Steven Pinker's 800 pg reminder as to how far we've come. After paddling in a pool.

2 comments:

Tim Lantz said...: Funny: I'm listening to that now too. Was just thinking about e-mailing you about it.

Hope you're well.; 9:25 PM
Gabriel said...: Hi Tim,
I'm really enjoying it. I hope you are too. I'm finding it one of the most important and interesting books I've ever read or listened to. Truly.
I'm well, very well.
I hope you're well too.
Warmly,
G; 10:02 PM

Gabriel Gudding is the author of Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, 2002). His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, and &Now: Best Innovative Writing. His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.