Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- American gun use is out of control. Shouldn’t the world intervene? (“212,994 more Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last 45 years than in all wars involving the US”)
- Do Books Make Us Better People? (“Books make us think for ourselves, rather than trying to force us into the ‘right’ way of thinking.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Saddest Sentence of the Week
- “In 2012, fewer than half of all U.S. adults read a novel, short story, poem, or play.”
Bookish Linkage
- Here’s an insider’s view of what lands a book on a year’s best list
- Kudos to the Randolph County (N.C.) school board for reversing its decision to ban Invisible Man, even though it decried the book’s “strong language” and “explicit accounts” related to incest and rape and called it “downright vulgar”
- Melville House has all its banned books on sale
- The Guardian is starting a 100-week series of essays on what it considers the classic English and American novels from the late 17th century to the present day
- A glossary of the many terms used to name the
science fictionSFspeculative fictionwhatever genre - It’s utopias that create dystopias
Nonbookish Linkage
- Journalism is on a journey of uncertain destination
- The Zen of dogs
- How music makes us feel better
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski, May 10, 1967
