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Office novels explored the strange reality of our working lives. Now they make us nostalgic for our cubicles.
Stuart Miller, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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Office novels have evolved alongside workplace culture.Little, Brown; Jonathan Cape; Simon and Schuster I miss boring meetings, John Kenney said. The author of two workplace novels - Truth in Advertising and Talk to Me - and Love Poems for the Office, Kenney doesn t miss being bored. I miss being in a room with other people.
Zoom meetings are functional, Kenney said, but lack spontaneity and stymie meandering conversations. What makes work interesting is the serendipitous spark that could come when you re chatting and the other person said something and then you get an idea, he said. Serendipity is hard to capture on Zoom.
In his debut novel, Brooklyn native Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between Samuel and Isaiah, two enslaved young men on
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Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama Talk Racism, Clarence Clemons, Protest Songs and Get Out for Spotify Podcast
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Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama talk extensively about issues of race in the first two episodes of their joint Spotify podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” both released this week. The two discuss the racism the former president experienced growing up in Hawaii, Springsteen’s on- and off-stage relationships with Clarence Clemons, and how little has changed since the rocker released the song “41 Shots (American Skin)” two decades ago… along with nods to the films “Do the Right Thing” and “Get Out.”
University of Houston gets $5 million to combat HIV/AIDs epidemic in the South
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University of Houston System Chancellor and UH President Renu KhatorUniversity of Houston
The University of Houston has received $5 million to continue its work in combating challenges that contribute to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South.
Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences donated the money to the Graduate College of Social Work research center as a part of a $100 million collaborative initiative to reduce disparities in care for HIV/AIDS within a decade, according to a university release.
Nearly half of all HIV deaths and 51 percent of new diagnoses occur in the South, researchers say. Diagnoses among Black and Latino Americans also remains high, with Black people accounting for 43 percent of new HIV diagnoses despite only making up 13 percent of the country.