ACROSS THE TABLE ~

MONASTERIES ~

LAZY RIVER ~

THE ROAD TO DESOLATION ~

THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN ~

COMMENCEMENT ~

A MERCY ~

MARGARET WALKER ~

KEEP MOVIN' ON ~

KURT VONNEGUT ~

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS ~

THIS AIN'T NO MOUSE MUSIC ~

TROUBLE EVERY DAY ~

THE PEACEMAKERS ~

CHARLES BUKOWSKI ~

NO FENCE ~

KAY BOYLE ~

THE DUMBER ~

THIS LAND IS CONDEMNED ~

LASSOED ~

Dwight D Eisenhower gets lassoed 

by cowboy Monte Montana at the 

1953 inaugural parade

Photograph: AP

Back when a President had a good sense of humor

rather than cruel humor at the expense of others

FUN DOES NOT EXIST ~

PEACHY ~

THE INAUGURATION, BBC ONE / THE TWILIGHT ZONE ~

President Trump: The Inauguration

4 pm, BBC One/STV

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"After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories - among the most common is the "What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War" setting - but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. 

The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today's feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It's a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we're not careful."

The Sunday Herald TV critic Damien Love

INAUGURATION & ANGEL ~

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I N A U G U R A T I O N       D A Y      2 0 1 6


"Abandon all hope, you who enter here."

D  A  N  T  E

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C I T Y      L I G H T S
1999

SAMANTHA BEE ~

HE'S A BAD BOY ~

DAVID MCCULLOUGH ~

BAD AVENUE ~

FORTUNATE SON ~

IN MY HOUR OF DARKNESS ~

WOODY GUTHRIE ~

TOM JOAD ~

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND ~

JUNE JORDAN 3 ~

JUNE JORDAN 2 ~

JUNE JORDAN 1 ~

MURIEL RUKEYSER ~

BALLAD OF A CARPENTER ~

HOPE ~

GARY SNYDER ~

WORKIN' MAN BLUES ~

NOAM CHOMSKY ~

GUNTER GRASS ~ XENOPHOBIA ~

Xenophobia




As millions of displaced persons

with little lullage,

burdened by memory,

were forcibly resettled

in what remained of the fatherland,

many of the locals, feeling cramped

by their arrival, shouted:

Go back where you came from!

But they stayed, as did

the well-worn cry: Go, get out!

Soon it was aimed at foreigners

who came later, and later still

from far away,

speaking in strange tongues;

they too remained,

settled down, and multiplied.

Only when the natives

began to feel foreign too

did they also begin to see,

in all those foreigners

who'd slowly learned

to bear their foreignness,

their own selves,

and start to live with them.



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GUNTER GRASS
Of All That Ends
translated by Breon Mitchell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2016