The eminently readable Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, at The Fairway, is self-publishing a new book on the press, AKA "the media," which can be read in serialized form for a monthly or annual ($40) subscription. Also also included in the fee is access to a previous book on the economics of the drug trade.
The excellent podcast, Serial, in its third season, is examining the workings of the U.S. justice system as exemplified by the workings of a courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio. It's available on iTunes and other podcast sources.
Also of podcasting note, among a pretty broad assortment of efforts in the field of cybersecurity, is an offering from the cyberwire called Hacking Humans. It's a commendably non-technical review of current phishing, vishing, smishing, and assorted other internet hustles and scams.
Eventually to appear on our reading list, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, a work said to be much admired by Mark Twain (whose recommendation is good enough for me) is available free at Project Gutenberg.
And, if you're into reading about airplanes, a novel (entirely fictional) by Ken Follett entitled Night Over Water takes place on the (entirely real) Boeing B-314s flying boat flown in trans-Atlantic service by PanAm during the late 1930's and by the U.S. military during the early 1940's. Only twelve of them were ever built.
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