New single out today, our cover of this 1966 gem by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. We funneled 13 years of life together into this one. You can’t actually love a person and never hurt them but you can have a lot of other stuff that’s worth it if you try. Here are some

A tax on the poor like never before.

"Naro ... found himself in the odd position of having a companion programmed to entice him into a relationship it was forbidden from consummating. This was, in retrospect, an omen of the inhuman weirdness of bonding with AI. But he had already paid his 10 pounds..."

I want to approach my work like this: “Each day we have 20 difficulties,” Philippe Jost, who headed the restoration task force, told me. “But it’s different when you work on a building that has a soul. Beauty makes everything easier.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…

What do we share now? Mad love for Shaboozey wsj.com/arts-culture/m…

Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry // A book about a barber, but a med student advised me to read abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4234

My first review for @Current_Pub1! TL;DR: Americans have long worried that advances in medicine require retreats in humanity. This book is about another episode in that history, focusing on a curriculum designed to help doctors see the whole patient. currentpub.com/2024/12/17/rev…

#listening cure

Reading Rita Dove with students this morning: harvardreview.org/content/rosary/

“We have a system of whack-a-mole, with providers trying to get paid and insurers trying to constrain costs—patients are caught in the middle,” wsj.com/health/healthc…

The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin // What do you give a shrink who reads? Speculative fiction as abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4252

In Shock, Rana Adwish // Physicians wear white coats and treat illnesses, while patie abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4261

Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet // Burnet builds bits of several genres of a psychiatrist's lif abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4265

The Rich Flee and The Poor Take The Bus, Troy Tasssier // Take the dust-jacket off this one--it's a banger of a design abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4271

Undeclared, Chris Higgins // Medical students still swear oaths in august ceremonies. Mos abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4278

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes // How many books get a preface by Winterson and an introductio abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4287

The Gift, Lewis Hyde // Need a mantra? Try this one: "If, when we work, we can look abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4293

The Citadel, A.J. Cronin // Every revolution needs a novel. The Citadel's protagonist, D abrahamnussbaum.com/?p=4298