“As we expose our vulnerabilities, we become more vulnerable. As we come to feel more lonely and helpless, we are more likely to believe in ideologies that explain everything, conspiracy theories that make sense of the world, big lies that reassure us of our place in it.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“We think of censorship as the burning of books, but they don’t burn books anymore. What they do is they remove them. They deprive us of our right to access them.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“A bookstore or a library isn’t just where books live – shared spaces that preserve culture for those who still want to think. They’re where culture either survives quietly or disappears rather loudly.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“Most artists are reaching for everything available around them. It’s a unique combination of sort of influences and forces that compress to make that artist’s singular sort of expression … And that’s the thing I want to talk about in The Stacks.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“And every topic imaginable, hardcover, softcover, you name it. There’s a good energy here.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“Is it instructive? Is it beautiful? Is it thought-provoking? Is it the truth? Or is it a meaningful lie? There are some really good art books that are meaningful lies and they’re important.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“It was banned by the Soviet regime, misunderstood and edited. Later, it was called a masterpiece.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“The moral here is, you must be careful what you pretend to be, because in the end, you are what you pretend to be.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
“Cholera is a horrible way to die … There was a lot. I mean, a lot of sex and vomiting.”
—radío flomm 28 april 2026
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Flommist Steve Mehallo is a graphic designer, illustrator, font designer, educator, foodie and gadfly. He is the creator and founder of FLOMM! Pictured up top: American Library Association (ALA)’s ‘Reading With a Purpose; More than Fifty Courses Answer the Question What Shall I Read? Ask The Librarian’ poster (cropped, modified), 1926, source; other images, we’re not sure where we got em, but we posted em in the spirit of güd literacy.
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