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Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

- An Unfinished Marriage

- A Walk on the Beach

- A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

- The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

- Living, Loving & Learning

- Personhood

- Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

- Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo - Adultery

The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

- The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

- The Great Santini

- The Lords of Discipline

- The Prince of Tides

- The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

- Great Expectations

- A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

- Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

- The Power of Intention

- Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

- Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

- The Last American Man

- The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

- Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

- David and Goliath

- Outliers

- The Tipping Point

- Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

- The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

- Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

- Narcissus and Goldmund

- Peter Camenzind

- Siddhartha

- Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

- Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

- How Children Learn

- Learning All the Time

- Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

- Neurosis and Human Growth

- The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

- New Ways in Psychoanalysis

- Our Inner Conflicts

- Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

- Metamophosis

- The Trial

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

- Motivation and Personality

- Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

- Toward a Psychology of Being

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

- Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

- Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

- Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

- Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

- The Last Anniversary

- What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

- Me Before You

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

- The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

- The Four Agreements

- The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

- The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

- Much Ado About Nothing

- Romeo and Juliet

- The Sonnets

- The Taming of the Shrew

- Twelfth Night

- Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

- The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

- Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

- Polar Express

- Sweet Dreams

- Stranger

- Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

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snarkyoracle · 5 years

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Best Drama *WINNER “Game of Thrones” (HBO) “Better Call Saul” (AMC) “Bodyguard” (Netflix) “Killing Eve” (AMC/BBC America) “Ozark” (Netflix) “Pose” (FX) “Succession” (HBO) “This Is Us” (NBC)

Lead Actress, Drama *WINNER Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve” Emilia Clarke, “Game of Thrones” Viola Davis, “How To Get Away With Murder” Laura Linney, “Ozark” Mandy Moore, “This Is Us” Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve” Robin Wright, “House of Cards”

Directing for a Drama Series *WINNER Jason Bateman, “Ozark” Lisa Brühlmann, “Killing Eve” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, “Game of Thrones” (“The Iron Throne”) Adam McKay, “Succession” David Nutter, “Game of Thrones”(The Last of the Starks”) Daina Reid, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Miguel Sapochnik, “Game of Thrones” (“The Long Night”)

Lead Actor, Drama *WINNER Billy Porter, “Pose” Jason Bateman, “Ozark” Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us” Kit Harington, “Game of Thrones” Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” Milo Ventimiglia, “This Is Us”

Supporting Actress, Drama *WINNER Julia Garner, “Ozark” Gwendoline Christie, “Game of Thrones” Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones” Fiona Shaw, “Killing Eve” Sophie Turner, “Game of Thrones” Maisie Williams, “Game of Thrones”

Writing for a Drama Series *WINNER Jesse Armstrong, “Succession” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, “Game of Thrones” Emerald Fennell, “Killing Eve” Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz, “Better Call Saul” Jed Mercurio, “Bodyguard” Bruce Miller and Kira Snyder, “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Supporting Actor, Drama *WINNER Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones” Alfie Allen, “Game Of Thrones” Jonathan Banks, “Better Call Saul” Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones” Giancarlo Esposito, “Better Call Saul” Michael Kelly, “House of Cards” Chris Sullivan, “This Is Us”

Variety Talk Series *WINNER “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” (HBO) “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (Comedy Central) “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” (TBS) “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC) “Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS) “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)

Director for a Variety Series *WINNER Don Roy King, “Saturday Night Live” Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas, “Documentary Now!” Derek Waters, “Drunk History” Paul Pennolino, “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” Jim Hoskinson, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Sacha Baron Cohen, Nathan Fielder, Daniel Gray Longino and Dan Mazer, “Who Is America?”

Variety Sketch Series *WINNER “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) “At Home With Amy Sedaris (TruTV) “Documentary Now!” (IFC) “Drunk History” (Comedy Central) “I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman” (Hulu) “Who Is America?” (Showtime)

Writing for a Variety Series *WINNER “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” “Documentary Now!” “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” “Late Night With Seth Meyers” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” “Saturday Night Live”

Best Limited Series *WINNER “Chernobyl” (HBO) “Escape at Dannemora” (Showtime) “Fosse/Verdon” (FX) “Sharp Objects” (HBO) “When They See Us” (Netflix)

Lead Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie *WINNER Michelle Williams, “Fosse/Verdon” Amy Adams, “Sharp Objects” Patricia Arquette, “Escape at Dannemora” Aunjanue Ellis, “When They See Us” Joey King, “The Act” Niecy Nash, “When They See Us”

Television Movie *WINNER “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” (Netflix) “Brexit” (HBO) “Deadwood: The Movie” (HBO) “King Lear” (Amazon Prime) “My Dinner With Hervé” (HBO)

Lead Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie *WINNER Jharrel Jerome, “When They See Us” Mahershala Ali, “True Detective” Benicio Del Toro, “Escape at Dannemora” Hugh Grant, “A Very English Scandal” Jared Harris, “Chernobyl” Sam Rockwell, “Fosse/Verdon”

SEE ALSO

Jharrel Jerome dedicates first Emmy win to ‘Exonerated Five’ Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama *WINNER Craig Mazin, “Chernobyl” Russell T Davies, “A Very English Scandal” Ava DuVernay and Michael Starrbury, “When They See Us” Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin, “Escape at Dannemora” (“Episode 7”) Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin and Jerry Stahl, “Escape at Dannemora” (“Episode 6”) Steven Levenson and Joel Fields, “Fosse/Verdon”

Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie *WINNER Ben Whishaw, “A Very English Scandal” Asante Blackk, “When They See Us” Paul Dano, “Escape at Dannemora” John Leguizamo, “When They See Us” Stellan Skarsgård, “Chernobyl” Michael K. Williams, “When They See Us”

Directing for a Limited Series *WINNER Johan Renck, “Chernobyl” Ava DuVernay, “When They See Us” Thomas Kail, “Fosse/Verdon” (“Who’s Got the Pain”) Stephen Frears, “A Very English Scandal” Ben Stiller, “Escape at Dannemora” Jessica Yu, “Fosse/Verdon” (“Glory”)

Supporting Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie *WINNER Patricia Arquette, “The Act” Marsha Stephanie Blake, “When They See Us” Patricia Clarkson, “Sharp Objects” Vera Farmiga, “When They See Us” Margaret Qualley, “Fosse/Verdon” Emily Watson, “Chernobyl”

Reality Competition Program *WINNER “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1) “The Amazing Race” (CBS) “American Ninja Warrior” (NBC) “Nailed It!” (Netflix) “Top Chef” (Bravo) “The Voice” (NBC)

Lead Actress, Comedy *WINNER Phoebe Waller-Bridge, “Fleabag” Christina Applegate, “Dead to Me” Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep” Natasha Lyonne, “Russian Doll” Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek”

Lead Actor, Comedy *WINNER Bill Hader, “Barry” Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish” Don Cheadle, “Black Monday” Ted Danson, “The Good Place” Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method” Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”

Director for a Comedy Series *WINNER Harry Bradbeer, “Fleabag” Alec Berg, “Barry” (“The Audition”) Mark Cendrowski, “The Big Bang Theory” Bill Hader, “Barry” (“ronny/lily”) Daniel Palladino, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (“We’re Going to the Catskills!”) Amy Sherman-Palladino, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (“All Alone”)

Writing for a Comedy Series *WINNER Phoebe Waller-Bridge, “Fleabag” Alec Berg and Bill Hader, “Barry” Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Stacy Osei-Kuffour, “Pen15” Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler, “Russian Doll” (“Nothing in This World Is Easy”) David Mandel, “Veep” Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, “The Good Place” Allison Silverman, “Russian Doll” (“A Warm Body”)

Supporting Actress, Comedy *WINNER Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Sarah Goldberg, “Barry” Sian Clifford, “Fleabag” Olivia Colman, “Fleabag” Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live” Betty Gilpin, “GLOW” Marin Hinkle, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Anna Chlumsky, “Veep”

Supporting Actor, Comedy *WINNER Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Alan Arkin, “The Kominsky Method” Henry Winkler, “Barry” Tony Hale, “Veep” Anthony Carrigan, “Barry” Stephen Root, “Barry”

Guest Actor, Comedy *WINNER Luke Kirby, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Matt Damon, “Saturday Night Live” Robert De Niro, “Saturday Night Live” Peter MacNicol, “Veep” John Mulaney, “Saturday Night Live” Adam Sandler, “Saturday Night Live” Rufus Sewell, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Guest Actress, Comedy *WINNER Jane Lynch, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Sandra Oh, “Saturday Night Live” Maya Rudolph, “The Good Place” Kristin Scott Thomas, “Fleabag” Fiona Shaw, “Fleabag” Emma Thompson, “Saturday Night Live”

Best Comedy *WINNER “Fleabag” (Amazon Prime) “Barry” (HBO) “The Good Place” (NBC) “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime) “Russian Doll” (Netflix) “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop) “Veep” (HBO)

Guest Actor, Drama *WINNER Bradley Whitford, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Michael Angarano, “This Is Us” Ron Cephas Jones, “This Is Us” Michael McKean, “Better Call Saul” Kumail Nanjiani, “The Twilight Zone” Glynn Turman, “How To Get Away With Murder”

Guest Actress, Drama *WINNER Cherry Jones, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Laverne Cox, “Orange Is the New Black” Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” Phylicia Rashad, “This Is Us” Cicely Tyson, “How To Get Away With Murder” Carice van Houten, “Game of Thrones”

Structured Reality Program

*WINNER “Queer Eye” (Netflix) “Antiques Roadshow” (PBS) “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” (Food Network) “Shark Tank” (ABC) “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” (Netflix) “Who Do You Think You Are?” (TLC)

Unstructured Reality Program *WINNER “United Shades Of America with Kamau Bell” (CNN) “Born This Way” (A&E) “Deadliest Catch” (Discovery Channel) “Life Below Zero” (National Geographic) “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” (VH1) “Somebody Feed Phil” (Netflix)

Reality Host *WINNER RuPaul, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” James Corden, “The World’s Best” Ellen DeGeneres, “Ellen’s Game of Games” Marie Kondo, “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, “Making It”

Variety special (live) *WINNER “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear”(ABC) “The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards” (NBC) “The 61st Grammy Awards” (CBS) “The Oscars” (ABC) “RENT” (FOX) “72nd Annual Tony Awards” (CBS)

Variety Special (taped) *WINNER “Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” (CBS) “Hannah Gadsby: Nanette” (Netflix) “Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé” (Netflix) “Springsteen On Broadway” (Netflix) “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal” (Netflix)

Informational Series or Special *WINNER “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” (CNN) “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” (Netflix) “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” (A&E) “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman” (Netflix) “Surviving R. Kelly” (Lifetime)

Directing for a Reality Program *WINNER Hisham Abed, “Queer Eye” Patrick McManus, “American Ninja Warrior” Nick Murray, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Ken Fuchs, “Shark Tank” Bertram van Munster, “The Amazing Race”

Best Short Form Comedy or Drama Series *WINNER “State of the Union” “An Emmy for Megan” “Hack Into Broad City” “It’s Bruno” “Special”

Outstanding Actor, Short Form Comedy or Drama Series *WINNER Chris O’Dowd, “State of the Union” Patton Oswalt, “An Emmy for Megan” Jimmy Fallon, “Beto Breaks the Internet” Ed Begley Jr., “Ctrl Alt Delete” Ryan O’Connell, “Special”

Outstanding Actress, Short Form Comedy or Drama Series *WINNER Rosamund Pike, “State of the Union” Ilana Glazer, “Hack Into Broad City” Abbi Jacobson, “Hack Into Broad City” Jessica Hecht, “Special” Punam Patel, “Special”

Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series *WINNER “Creating Saturday Night Live” “Fosse/Verdon (Inside Look)” “Pose: Identity, Family, Community (Inside Look)” “RuPaul’s Drag Race’s: Out of the Closet” “RuPaul’s Drag Race’s: Portrait of a Queen”

Short Form Variety Series *WINNER “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” “Billy on the Street” “Gay of Thrones” “Honest Trailers” “The Randy Rainbow Show”

Directing for a Variety Special *WINNER Thom Zimny, “Springsteen on Broadway” Ben Winston, “Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Ed Burke, “Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé” James Burrows and Andy Fisher, “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’” Glenn Weiss, “The Oscars”

Writing for a Variety Special *WINNER Hannah Gadsby, “Hannah Gadsby: Nanette” Adam Sandler, “Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh” Amy Schumer, “Amy Schumer: Growing” Matt Roberts, “Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, “Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé” Wanda Sykes, “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal”

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deniscollins · 5 years

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G.M. Workers Say They Sacrificed, and Now They Want Their Due

The United Auto Workers agreed to substantial wage concessions when General Motors was on the verge of bankruptcy 10 years ago. Over the last three years, GM has earned solid profits — it made $35 billion in North America — while closing plants in the United States. Under the contract just ended, workers have gotten a share of G.M.’s profits averaging $11,000 a year over the last three years, and now want an even “fairer” share of profits. If you were a GM executive, how would you determine what are the union workers fair share of profits?

A decade ago, when General Motors was on the brink of collapse and was ushered into bankruptcy by the federal government, the company’s unionized workers bore a significant portion of the pain to bring the automaker back to financial health.

The United Auto Workers agreed to allow General Motors to hire significant numbers of new workers at roughly half the hourly wage of those already on the payroll and with reduced retirement benefits. In the following years, G.M. was also able to bring in temporary workers with even slimmer wage-and-benefit packages and little job security.

The bitter medicine helped reinvigorate the automaker, and for the last several years it has been reaping record profits. Along the way, it has pared its United States payrolls, closed several plants and moved more work to Mexico.

Now nearly 50,000 workers have walked off the job at more than 50 G.M. plants and other locations across the Midwest and South, striking to get what they see as their fair share of the company’s hefty returns and block further erosion of their ranks.

“We have given away so many concessions over the last eight-plus years, and this company has been ridiculously profitable over that time,” said Chaz Akers, 24, an assembler at G.M.’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which is set to close in January unless the labor talks can win a reprieve. “That’s why we’re here. We’re fighting to get everything that we lost back.”

The across-the-board strike, the first by the U.A.W. since 2007, began at midnight Sunday, a day after the G.M. contract expired. Industry analysts said the walkout could cost the company tens of millions of dollars a day.

The company had no comment on the talks on Monday but said on Sunday: “We presented a strong offer that improves wages, benefits and grows U.S. jobs in substantive ways, and it is disappointing that the U.A.W. leadership has chosen to strike.”

In negotiations that resumed Monday morning and continued into the evening, the company has offered to invest $7 billion in United States plants and add 5,400 jobs. It also said it was willing to increase pay and benefits, without offering details.

That’s not enough for Wiley Turnage, president of U.A.W. Local 22, who represents the 700 workers at the Hamtramck plant. “I don’t like where we’re at,” he said at the plant’s main gate Monday, a picket sign reading “U.A.W. on Strike” propped on his shoulder. “We need job security. Our plant doesn’t have production beyond January. We have a lot of young, growing families and we need work for them.”

Focusing on a single company is standard practice in the talks between the U.A.W. and the Detroit automakers every four years. And although G.M. has a smaller domestic work force than its American rivals, Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler, it presented an inviting target.

The automaker has earned solid profits — it made $35 billion in North America over the last three years — while closing plants in the United States. Ford, in contrast, canceled plans to build a plant in Mexico, and Fiat Chrysler has announced plans for a new factory in Detroit.

“The U.A.W. is making a significant move here and sending a strong signal that what G.M. has been offering is not acceptable,” said Peter Berg, a labor-relations professor at Michigan State University.

Among autoworkers, there is a strong sense that G.M. is not only making enough profit to increase wages but should be obligated to do so because the federal government rescued the company in 2009.

“We literally gave up a lot during the bankruptcy and the American taxpayer gave up a lot,” said Ashley Scales, 32, a G.M. worker walking the picket line outside the Hamtramck plant’s main gate. “We gave up twice because we pay taxes and we gave up in the contractual agreement. And now the corporation is making more profit than ever and they still want to play games.”

It also does not sit well with workers that G.M. has chosen to make certain vehicles in Mexico rather than in American plants. For example, the new Chevrolet Blazer, a sport utility vehicle that years ago was made in the United States, was assigned to a Mexican plant when it was reintroduced last year.

President Trump, who even before taking office castigated G.M. for shifting production to Mexico, returned to the theme on Monday in comments at the White House. While he said he was “sad to see the strike” and hoped it would be short, he emphasized his relationship with autoworkers, and added: “I don’t want General Motors to be building plants outside of this country. You know they built many plants in China and Mexico, and I don’t like that at all.”

Under the contract just ended, workers have gotten a share of G.M.’s profits averaging $11,000 a year over the last three years. But some contend that the U.A.W. failed to push hard enough as G.M. and the other automakers bounced back over the last decade, including the union’s efforts in the last contract talks four years ago.

“The leadership is feeling some pressure from below to deliver something better than what we got in 2015,” Martha Grevatt, a U.A.W. member who retired from a Fiat Chrysler plant in Michigan earlier this year, said in an interview in August.

After making G.M. its target, the U.A.W. extended its contracts with Ford and Fiat Chrysler. The G.M. outcome is meant to set a pattern for the other companies.

But G.M. is looking to cut costs, or at least avoid cost increases, in a difficult business environment. Auto sales are slowing in the United States and China, the world’s largest and most lucrative markets, and the company is spending billions of dollars to develop electric vehicles and self-driving cars.

It still has room to get leaner. At the end of last year, G.M. had the capacity to make one million more vehicles that it was selling, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president for industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.

To trim capacity, it has closed a small-car plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and components plants in Baltimore and Warren, Mich. The Hamtramck plant makes the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac CT6, two slow-selling sedans that would need to be retained or replaced to keep the factory running.

Aside from keeping the Hamtramck plant open, the biggest issue for strikers is the tiered wage system, which leaves some workers making significantly less than others for comparable work.

Workers hired before 2007 make about $31 an hour, and can retire with a lifelong pension. Those hired after them (now more than a third of the work force) start at about $17 an hour and can work their way up to about $29 an hour over eight years. They also have to rely on 401(k) retirement accounts instead of pensions.

In addition, G.M. uses temporary workers (about 7 percent of the staff) who earn about $15 an hour, and do not have vision or dental benefits. The system has helped G.M. compete with Toyota, Honda and other foreign automakers operating nonunion plants in Southern states where hourly wages tend to range from $15 to $18 an hour.

But Hamtramck workers said the disparity in compensation under one roof created tension and resentment on the assembly line. “It’s a matter of fairness if someone next to you is making double for the same work,” said Stephanie Brown, 35, a Head Start teacher for 10 years until she took a temp position at G.M. three months ago.

Mr. Akers said he was paid $18 an hour for installing passenger-side headlights, while the driver’s-side headlights were installed by a temporary worker making $3 less.

“That guy has been a temp for two-and-a-half years,” Mr. Akers said. “Is that temporary to you?”

Depending on its length, the strike could have far-reaching effects, potentially hurting some of the thousands of companies that supply G.M. with parts like seats, motors and brake systems, as well as the components that go into those parts.

Other parts of the labor movement may be an asset to the U.A.W. Bret Caldwell, a Teamsters spokesman, said that his union represented about 1,000 drivers who transport G.M. vehicles to dealerships and that their contracts allowed them to avoid crossing a picket line.

Mr. Caldwell said he expected almost all of the car haulers to be idle throughout the strike. “That’ll be a big impact holding up any remaining inventory G.M. has, anything they try to bring in from out of the country,” he said. “It’s the main area of support we’re able to show.”

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