PinnedNicky MartininCounter ArtsBlood, Oil, and Deceit: Unraveling the Conspiracy in Killers of the Flower MoonConsidering Scorsese’s film, David Grann’s 2017 book, and the FBI’s complicity in the massacre·8 min read·Oct 29, 2023--1--1
Nicky MartininBooks Are Our SuperpowerLife, Death, and Productivity: How to Embrace Life’s LimitsReviewing Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks and revealing the futility of time management·6 min read·May 8, 2024--1--1
Nicky MartininReviewsday TuesdayPyramid Schemes and the American DreamReviewing Selling the Dream by Jane Marie, A History of Multi-level Marketing Scams·5 min read·Apr 2, 2024--1--1
Nicky MartinBeware, Hell Hounds! Use This Forbidden Knowledge to Survive!A discussion of the spawn of Cerberus, blackest Midnight born, friend to no man, demon dogs·7 min read·Mar 5, 2024----
Nicky MartinSurviving is Criminal: The Black Panther Party and RevolutionReviewing Fact and Fiction about The Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s·12 min read·Feb 25, 2024----
Nicky MartinWeird Love, Heartbreak, and Reading on Valentine’s DayReviewing My Father, The Pornographer; Heartbreak Incorporated and Harlequin Valentine·7 min read·Feb 14, 2024----
Nicky MartinWhat’s True About True Crime? Considering DNA, Reddit, Dead Bodies, and TruthThe Book Piles newsletter returns to review a memoir, a novel, and a comic book about finding truth in crime.·7 min read·Jan 30, 2024----
Nicky MartinSpies, Art, The Cultural Cold War, and Ai WeiweiThis week, the pile pertains to art and state ideology in reviews of Frances Stoner Saunders’ history of the cultural Cold War, Who Paid…·12 min read·Jan 25, 2024----
Nicky MartinFraternal Brotherhoods, Drug Dealing, and Demonic RitualsConsidering occulted fraternities in America by reviewing the true crime book Among the Bros and the comic Fraternity·5 min read·Jan 14, 2024----
Nicky Martin2024 Guidance, Prayers, and ReadingConsidering Art, Prayer, and Deep Reading this New Year·7 min read·Jan 10, 2024----