# club book (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover club book. Page: Feed: --- ## [10 Things: Salsas and Salutes](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/10-things-salsas-and-salutes) _2026-08-21 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ All my recommendations on what to read, watch, read, appreciate, read, make, and read this week. ## [How AI really works](https://bobbie.net/2026/08/17/how-ai-really-works/) _2026-08-17 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ Three things I read this past week or so that I wanted to share. There’s a theme in here, I suppose. But that’s where we’re at right now. PS these are all by people I know, but they’re very worth your while. Legacy Media Wants to Hire You (No, Not You) In Scratch, Rahawa Haile \[…\] ## [CHECK-IN: Introductions 6.0](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/check-in-introductions-60) _2026-08-14 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: a nice poem ## [The People's Ninja Slushi Machine](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/the-peoples-ninja-slushi-machine) _2026-08-11 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: A very very rare 50% off sale ## [Some of you figured out the first book Open Editions is publishing...](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/some-of-you-figured-out-the-first) _2026-08-06 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ The secrets out ## [Gluttony and the guillotine](https://bobbie.net/2026/08/05/gluttony-and-the-guillotine/) _2026-08-05 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ If you live in the continental United States and get bitten by a bat, or a raccoon, or a fox, your doctor will probably advise you to go and get rabies shots. Rabies isn t common, but it s common enough that about 100,000 people go through the preventative protocol every year. This process is no joke. \[ \] ## [June / July Diaries](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/june-july-diaries) _2026-08-04 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: Is this the Ballerina Farm apron?! ## [How to join Open Book Club in August](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/how-to-join-open-book-club-in-august-9cd) _2026-08-03 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ Tickets are live :) ## [A literary exploration of karaoke](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/a-literary-exploration-of-karaoke) _2026-07-31 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ with The Offset ## [What we're reading in August](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/what-were-reading-in-august) _2026-07-30 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ Take a trip ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/klZ1X7WV8K7p) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [Revealing the first title Open Editions is publishing](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/revealing-the-first-title-open-editions) _2026-07-24 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ The Open Book Club studio warming & Open Editions title release party ## [10 Things: Kaitlynn Webster](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/10-things-kaitlynn-webster) _2026-07-24 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ All Katilynn's recommendations for living the fullest of lives ## [I Tried Not To Write Too Much About Bees?!](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/i-tried-not-to-write-too-much-about) _2026-07-23 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: Another New Yorker cartoon! ## [The studio was just the beginning](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/the-studio-was-just-the-beginning) _2026-07-22 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ And I need your help with what's next ## [RECS: Travel](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/recs-travel) _2026-07-20 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: A new Music League! ## [A summer dinner party](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/a-summer-dinner-party) _2026-07-14 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ Featuring The Good Eye by Jess Gibson and a menu from Mina Stone ## [10 Things: Twists, Tofu, Transformation](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/10-things-twists-tofu-transformation) _2026-07-10 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ All my recommendations for what to enjoy, read, cook, buy, and think about this week. ## [JULY CHECK-IN: Daylight](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/july-check-in-daylight) _2026-07-07 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: All the new bird painting classes in one place ## [I'm hosting a karaoke night](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/im-hosting-a-karaoke-night) _2026-07-06 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ Featuring What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton ## [How To Write and Sell A Cartoon to The New Yorker](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/how-to-write-and-sell-a-cartoon-to) _2026-07-02 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: What do you think about all the protein talk? ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EVFeFjcjBRFG) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [The next chapter of Open Book Club](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/the-next-chapter-of-open-book-club) _2026-07-02 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ We're going somewhere new \<3 ## [QUESTIONS: Do You Need A 'Spark'?](https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/p/questions-do-you-need-a-spark) _2026-06-30 · Sophie Lucido Johnson · You Are Doing A Good Enough Job_ PLUS: I couldn't write about addiction yet. ## [How to join Open Book Club in July](https://openbookclubnyc.substack.com/p/how-to-join-open-book-club-in-july-7e2) _2026-06-30 · Elizabeth · Open Book Club NYC_ Tickets are live! ## [Stay classy](https://bobbie.net/2026/03/23/stay-classy/) _2026-03-23 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ I will read pretty much anything Andrew O Hagan writes in the London Review of Books (which is a subset of I ll read pretty much anything in the London Review of Books also a true statement) but I particularly enjoyed his demolition of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew of The Epstein Files, the Duke \[ \] ## [Craig Mod: “We’re probably doing a lot of things the wrong way”](https://bobbie.net/2026/03/06/craig-mod-were-probably-doing-a-lot-of-things-the-wrong-way/) _2026-03-06 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ A few weeks back I had a really stimulating conversation with Craig Mod, the bookmaker, writer, photographer and author of Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir, which was February s book of the month at Curious Reading Club. One thing I mentioned in our chat was that Craig actually has had a profound impact on \[ \] ## [The tyranny of advertising](https://bobbie.net/2026/02/25/the-tyranny-of-advertising/) _2026-02-25 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ Not quite 18 months ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI putting ads in ChatGPT was definitely certainly probably not a good idea. Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me, he said at a Harvard event in October 2024. I kind of think of ads as, like, a last resort for us for \[ \] ## [Jennie Erin Smith: “I didn’t want researchers to spoon-feed me the story”](https://bobbie.net/2026/02/07/jennie-erin-smith-i-didnt-want-researchers-to-spoon-feed-me-the-story/) _2026-02-07 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ What fun to talk with Jennie Erin Smith, the author of Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer s Families And The Search For A Cure, which was Curious Reading Club s book of the month for January. It s a really fascinating book about a major research trial in Colombia which focused on a huge group of people who carry \[ \] ## [Preserving the past](https://bobbie.net/2026/01/17/preserving-the-past/) _2026-01-17 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ For Dweb Digest I wrote a short profile of the archivist Rick Prelinger, and his work to create decentralized copies of vast tranches of archival data alongside his friends and partners at the Internet Archive. It was a lot of fun driving over to their East Bay warehouse and sitting down to talk to him \[ \] ## [David Baron: The Martians used to be the good guys](https://bobbie.net/2025/12/30/david-baron-the-martians-used-to-be-the-good-guys/) _2025-12-30 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ December s Curious Reading Club book is The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by former NPR science editor David Baron—a rollicking read about the gilded age s obsession with aliens, and the space-obsessed Boston brahmin Percival Lowell who made it happen. David s book looks at how the craze took hold, \[ \] ## [Tania Branigan: “Everybody thinks they would have been in the Resistance in wartime.”](https://bobbie.net/2025/11/24/tania-branigan-everybody-thinks-they-would-have-been-in-the-resistance-in-wartime/) _2025-11-24 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ This month s Curious Reading Club pick is Tania Branigan s Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution (WW Norton, 2023). It s an absolutely fascinating look at people s memories of this turbulent, horrific period of recent Chinese history, and how people wrestle with what they have done and what they didn t do. Tania is an old \[ \] ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bgKf74bFOYmn) _2025-11-24 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [In the NYT: AI crosses the deepfake rubicon](https://bobbie.net/2025/10/19/in-the-nyt-ai-crosses-the-deepfake-rubicon/) _2025-10-19 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today about my extreme distaste for Sora, the new social video app from OpenAI that was built to create and share fake videos. At a time when we are surrounded by fakes and fabrications, Sora seems precisely designed to further erode the idea of objective \[ \] ## [Podcast: North Korean sleeper cells](https://bobbie.net/2025/10/19/podcast-north-korean-sleeper-cells/) _2025-10-19 · Bobbie Johnson · Start here_ Change Agents is a podcast about terrorism, crime, intelligence, warfare and all manner of gnarly stuff, hosted by former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf. Let s just say it s not my normal audience! But I joined Andy recently for a conversation about the North Korean pretender scam. (See my recent story in Wired or read the background \[ \]