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Voices from the Valley
Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It
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- FSG Originals x Logic
2020
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From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industryIn Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR ...
Violence
Humans in Dark Times
- by
- Brad EvansNatasha LennardSimon CritchleyGeorge YancyZygmunt BaumanAdrian ParrHenry A. GirouxGayatri Chakravorty SpivakNicholas MirzoeffSimona FortiBracha L. EttingerCary WolfeRichard J. BernsteinMoira WeigelOliver StoneAlfredo JaarTom McCarthyJohn AkomfrahDavid Theo GoldbergChristopher AldenJake ChapmanBrian MassumiElaine ScarryErin ManningMichael J. ShapiroAllen FeldmanMickey ModJack HalberstramGottfried HeinweinNeo Muyanaga
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- City Lights Open Media
2018
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Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...
Labor of Love
The Invention of Dating
2016
EN
"An occasionally amusing and often provocative look at the work of wooing . . . [A] lively tour of changing romantic mores." — The Economist"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: ...
Labor of Love
The Invention of Dating
- Narrated by
- Kyra Miller
Unabridged
8 hours 48 min
2016
EN
"Does anyone date anymore?" Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older generations have scolded them: That's not the way to find true love. The first women who made dates with strangers were often arrested for prostitution; long before "hookup culture," there were "petting p...
Voices from the Valley
Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It
- Series -
- FSG Originals x Logic
Unabridged
3 hours 19 min
2021
EN
From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industryIn Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. I...
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Time Travel
A History
- Narrated by
- Rob Shapiro
Unabridged
10 hours
2016
EN
“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post“A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston GlobeFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on o...
Bad Feminist
Essays
2014
EN
“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com •
2014
EN
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.'In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help) while al...
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
2019
EN
A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year **‘Magnificent’**The Times ‘Dazzling’ New Statesman ‘It filled me with hope’ Zadie SmithWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.From the r...
Girl on Girl
How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
2025
EN
*A TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER**FOYLES NON-FICTION APRIL BOOK OF THE MONTH*A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025AN AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph'Blistering' New York Times'...
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
2017
EN
****One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017**“Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is crucial reading if we are ever to be better.”—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies**From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, analytical loo...
Feminist Fight Club
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
2016
EN
Accessible
Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might hav...











