12/4/20 review of the novel Davita's Harp, by Chaim Potok

Here is the link to my December 4, 2020, Twitter thread review of the novel Davita's Harp, by Chaim Potok.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

8/30/20 Millett's Sexual Politics, and how Nazis infiltrated the feminist movement

Here is the link to my August 30, 2020, Twitter thread, doing a close reading of the section in Kate Millett's book Sexual Politics that shows how Nazis and misogynists infiltrated feminist groups to tear down liberal political power, reinstate conventional sexual ideologies, and advance a far-right agenda.

This is a really important part of Millett's book, and I wish more people would pay attention to it.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

7/13/20 review of the book Anti-Memoirs, by André Malraux

Here is the link to my July 13, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book Anti-Memoirs, by André Malraux.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

9/2/19 review of the film For a Lost Soldier, directed by Roeland Kerbosch

Here is the link to my September 2, 2019, Twitter thread review of the film For a Lost Soldier, directed by Roeland Kerbosch and based on the memoir by the same name by Rudi van Dantzig.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

12/5/12 review of book Hedy's Folly by Richard Rhodes

Here is my Twitter review of the book Hedy's Folly: the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, by Richard Rhodes.

This is one of my earlier Twitter reviews. It's from December 12, 2012.

Unlike my later threads, which are posted in a thread, this review was posted in separate tweets.

I have all the tweets below for convenience.

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Tweet 1. Finished reading Hedy's Folly, by Richard Rhodes. On the collaboration between Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil to make spread spectrum radio.

T2. Hedy's Folly spends a great deal of time examining Lamarr's and Antheil's separate lives before discussing their invention. T3. Lamarr is shown as a glamourous actress who escapes a marriage to a brilliant, but overly possessive arms dealer. T4. Antheil is shown as a headstrong avant-garde composer who is overly dependent on his patroness.

T5. Lamarr and Antheil are united through Hollywood and diplomatic connections during World War II. They want to contribute to the war effort. T6. So Lamarr and Antheil create frequency-hopping radio, to enable torpedoes to receive unjammed directional signals from transmitters.

T7. Rhodes questions the influence of personality and even aesthetic on the inventing process. It's very evident in L and A's patent schematics.

(I deleted a tweet here mentioning that I'd first learned of Hedy Lamarr after having watched the Andy Warhol film Hedy, where Mario Montez plays a parody of Lamarr.)

T8. Then I read a book on exploitation movie posters, including Lamarr's risque film Ecstasy. That book mentioned Hedy's life as an inventor. T9. So I decided to look more into Lamarr's life and found Richard Rhodes' Hedy's Folly waiting for me at my local library!

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I checked this book out from the Jefferson County Public Library system in Colorado.

Here is the link to the Penguin Random House edition of Hedy's Folly.

12/27/14 review of the film The Imitation Game

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film The Imitation Game.

In my Twitter review, I discuss Benedict Cumberbatch's fashion; the work done at Bletchley Park; comparing Turing's WWII work with other people's work; LGBTQ people's contributions to STEM; the story's structure; and the actors' performances.

Here is the trailer for The Imitation Game.