Bulletin Board
- Today marks the return of My Commonplace Book and Curmudgeon’s Gallery, both with several new items
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Had a good think lately? (“The vast army of electronic devices surrounding us has proven an able ally to our fear of thinking.”)
- The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture (“Donald Trump communicates through conspiracy theories.”)
Bookish Linkage
- When your father reads his first book in 35 years
- Black Mirror, one of the best television shows this century, is expanding to the book world
- Indie bookstores offering subscription services
- The WPA produced juvenile books intended to “build a desire to read for reading’s sake“
- I can’t help but think the maroon in the White House contributed to Margaret Atwood winning both the 2017 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and 2017 Franz Kafka Prize
- Bookish Lists: all the books seen in season 5 of Orange is the New Black (and there’s plenty); 8 books about the Salem witch trials; 50 noir detective novels (I’ve only read 2); 10 literary horror books; best books to understand Cuba; 13 books about resistance and revolutions
Nonbookish Linkage
- Intellectual humility in an age of arrogance
- Is philosophy harder than science?
- Lying is a deeply ingrained human trait
- Trump a cancer on language
- The pursuit of happiness makes us sad
- The persistence of prog rock
- Jimi Hendrix Park opens today
Optimism sounds exhausting.
Wally, Dilbert, August 16, 2014
