Links & notes: 'Human Voices' by Penelope Fitzgerald
- ifbookclub
- Jan 6, 2023
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online for our concluding discussion of 2022. As always, we found much to explore and discuss.
Please find below some links in follow up to our conversation about Penelope Fitzgerald's Human Voices and details for our January 22 discussion of We Are Bellingcat: The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes by Eliot Higgins.
Links from Human Voices:
"Penelope Fitzgerald: A Voice Amidst the Blitz" (Publishers Weekly)
"100 Years of the BBC" (WNYC)
History of the BBC (BBC)
About Broadcasting House (BBC). In the novel, Fitzgerald discusses the ship-like appearance of the building and references the statue of Ariel and Prospero (from The Tempest). According to the BBC, "Ariel as the spirit of the air was felt to be an appropriate personification of the spirit of broadcasting."
Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawlorn, a novel based on the life of Nancy Wake, an Australian who worked with the French Resistance and then Special Operations Executive. The novel includes the role of the BBC in transmitting coded messages.
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, a novel the code breakers at Bletchley Park (with a focus on the women). Fitzgerald's uncle, Dilly Knox, was among the leading cryptographers.
Terry Gross recently interviewed author Adam Hochschild about American Midnight, his new book exploring press censorship, treatment of people who were immigrants, targeting of unions and activists, and more during WWI.
Our January Book
For our first discussion of 2023, we turn to We Are Bellingcat: The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes by Eliot Higgins.
When:
Sunday, January 22, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (approx) Pacific Time
Where:
In person at Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom.
The book is available for purchase from Books Inc. Opera Plaza, in print or as an eBook, and in local libraries. (If purchasing the print book, you can obtain a book group discount for the title at the Opera Plaza store.)
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