The fearsome foursome is back in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling series praised by Rick Riordan!

The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search--a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing the kids' adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain.

With only one week to find a captured Mr. Benedict, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all--a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and will require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.

Available May 24, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download from Little, Brown Young Readers. 

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The Mysterious Benedict Society And The Perilous Journey by Trenton L Stewart, Diana Sudyka

Read by Fred Sanders

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life

"This book is simply terrific." —Heather Cox Richardson, publisher of the "Letters from an American" Substack

"A must-read." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains

Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries—seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called “knowledge economy of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of America’s commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat.

In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand “the college question,” there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair.

From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., beginning with the first technical schools, through the landmark GI Bill, and the culture wars of the 60’s and 70’s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself—and how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over again—what, and who, is college even for?—and pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans.

The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic division—and charts a path forward for America.

After the Ivory Tower Falls by Will Bunch

The first people who lived on the northern plains of what today is the US called themselves "Lakota", meaning "the people", a word which provides the semantic basis for Dakota. The first European people to meet the Lakota called them "Sioux", a contraction of "Nadowessioux", a now-archaic French-Canadian word meaning "snake", or enemy.

The Lakota also used a metaphor to describe the newcomers. It was "Wasi'chu", which means "takes the fat", or "greedy person". Within the modern Indian movement, "wasi'chu" has come to mean those corporations and individuals, with their governmental accomplices, that continue to covet Indian lives, land, and resources for private profit. "Wasi'chu" does not describe a race; it describes a state of mind.

This book is about resistance to that state of mind and to the economic system that rewards it. 

Wasi'chu by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas on Audible:
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Wasi'chu by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas, Narrated by Jason Ryll (Chapter 7)

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/29/emily-dickinson-in-a-library/

Music: "Reverie" by Claude Debussy, performed by Simone Renzi (public domain)

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

"A precious mouldering pleasure" by Emily Dickinson (read by Maria Popova)

Listen to an excerpt from I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author.

I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED Audiobook Excerpt

Context and discussion: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/13/jon-mooallem-serious-face-poetry/

ABOUT THIS POEM

"Frost on the Fields" by Eric Trethewey (read by Jon Mooallem)

Text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/15/alan-lightman-mr-g-music/

TEXT/CONTEXT

The Universe in Verse: Alan Lightman on music

On this week’s episode of The One Piece Podcast we have hosts Zach, Ed & Steve for our recap of One Piece Chapter 1057, “New Emperors”! This week we have special guests Giusil (transcreation specialist, YouTuber, and artist), Vero (host of the upcoming Luv Letters, OPPAtlas mod and OPP social media czar) and Sam Leach (Anime Recap host) on the show for our Manga Recap for One Piece Chapter 1057, “New Emperors” plus an Anime Recap for Episodes 1029 & 1030, Piece Together and another bout of Vero’s shipping trivia!


Credit to Steve for this week’s episode image! Check out all of the alternate images and titles on our Patreon, subscribe today at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast! You can see the alternate titles and images for this week’s episode here.

This week’s episode is edited by Dan!

0:00:00 – Introduction & News
0:09:12 – Manga Recap: Chapter 1057
1:25:54 – Anime Recap: Episodes 1029 & 1030
1:59:16 – Piece Together
2:10:37 – To Be Continued & Ship Trivia

PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENTS!


The One Piece Podcast Atlas: a One Piece Podcast fanbook with art & articles from the crew and community, we are excited to create a project that showcases everything we love about being part of the One Piece community!
We are proud to announce that the second episode of Real It In: A One Piece Podcast Live Action Podcast with Sam & Jill is out now! The third episode has been recorded!
The third season of Fight Together continues every month! The latest episode about Asexuality & Aromanticism is out now!
The first three episodes of “The Grand Line” — our OPPTTRPG with Dan, Josh, Vero, Brodsky, Sam, Ruby, Zach & Sean — are out now!
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INTRODUCING: The OPP Treasure Box!

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Next week…get ready for the SanjiCast as we discuss Shokugeki no Sanji!

Episode 735, "Friendship Ended with Buggy"

“We were young citizen-soldiers, terribly naive and gullible about what we would be confronted with in the air war over Europe and the profound effect it would have upon every fiber of our being for the rest of our lives. We were all afraid, but it was beyond our power to quit. We volunteered for the service and, once trained and overseas, felt we had no choice but to fulfill the mission assigned. My hope is that this book honors the men with whom I served by telling the truth about what it took to climb into the cold blue and fight for our lives over and over again.”

So writes the 100-year-old World War II veteran John “Lucky” Luckadoo in the new book he co-authored with Kevin Maurer: Damn Lucky: One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Kevin is my guest today, and will share Lucky’s story, and with it, the story of WWII’s famous B-17 bomber.

During the war, airmen in the 100th Bomb Group could finish their combat service and return home after flying 25 missions. Yet with a 1 in 10 chance of becoming a casualty, few were able to reach this milestone. Lucky was one of the, well, lucky few who did, and Kevin traces how he got there, from trying to join the Royal Canadian Air Force as a teenager, to learning to fly the B-17 on the job, to his harrowing daylight bombing missions over Germany, to the life he made for himself after the war. Along the way, Kevin describes the brutal conditions inside a B-17 and the bomber’s role in winning the war.

#798: The Harrowing Life of a World War II B-17 Pilot

In this week’s episode Tyler and Korey discuss Tyler’s first time being catcalled, whether the Try Guys ever tried anal, who Rihanna must bring out at the Super Bowl, and Nikki Blonsky’s must have eBay listings.
 
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PB 379: One Thing About Me Is...

A young man contemplates infinity in the middle of a boat dance. [explicit content]

"Frost on the Fields" by Eric Trethewey (read by Jon Mooallem)

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