One of the major acts of resistance for protesters occupying Taksim Gezi Park has been to pick up a good book and read it – preferably in front of a police officer. Now, thanks to an initiative launched by publishing houses to organize book distribution, they are assured to have lots of material in the coming days.
Sel Publishing House on June 4 called on other publishing houses to step up the organization of the book aid by creating a makeshift library in the park, asking all publishers to send books and support the movement with some good literature.
“Books are one of the essentials of the resistance,” the publishing house said. More than 15 publishing houses have responded to the call.
Hat tip to the inimitable Dave Lull for this news tidbit.
Author: Cynthia Haven
Cynthia Haven has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, and other publications. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde, La Repubblica, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly Conversation, The Georgia Review, Civilization, and others. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London, 2005. Her Czestaw Mitosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czestaw Mitosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford. Her biography René Girard, A Life will be published next year.
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2 thoughts on “Books in Istanbul: “one of the essentials of the resistance””
if I had a dollar for every time Dave Lull said something or other important, I’d be a millionaire by now…I’d have a million here and a million there….and pretty soon it’d get everywhere!
Why are you posting as Dave, fella? Dave says you’re not him.
if I had a dollar for every time Dave Lull said something or other important, I’d be a millionaire by now…I’d have a million here and a million there….and pretty soon it’d get everywhere!
Why are you posting as Dave, fella? Dave says you’re not him.