Bulletin Board
- Tuesday is World Book Night
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Hell of American Day Care (“The United States has always been profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of supporting child care outside the home, for reasons that inevitably trace back to beliefs over the proper role of women and mothers”) (via)
- Why Doctors Can’t Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should) (“Part of the problem with studying psychedelics–and other illicit drugs, such as marijuana–for medical use, is simply that they’re not high-tech, and no pharmaceutical company needs or wants to get involved. There’s no money in it for them.”) (via)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Although today’s festivity postdates my youth, Flavorwire suggests 10 highbrow books for smart stoners.
- Strategies for reading difficult books (other than just giving up)
- Ten ways to build a library on the cheap (via)
- Take a look at some of the books in the Guantanamo prison library (via)
- The most ridiculous grounds used to challenged classic novels
- Watersheds in a reader’s life
- Nine well-known authors who spent time in mental institutions
- I’ve actually read the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction and general nonfiction. I struck out on the other five winners. The award pushed the fiction winner into the Amazon Top 10 list the next day.
Nonbookish Linkage
- Clark at Popehat provides some interesting perspective on the Boston “shelter-in-place” (BTW, Popehat is a blog worth following if for no reason other than Ken White’s excellent coverage of the shady antics of Prenda Law, et al.)
- Here’s news: news is bad for you
I think “experimental fiction” is a synonym for “Give me a break.”
Anna Quindlen, NYTBR
