Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Why Books and Reading Are More Important Than Ever (“…books remain one of the few defenses we have against narrowness, domination, and mind control. But only if we read them – and then only if we spring into action based on what we’ve learned and discovered.”)
Bookish Linkage
- The story behind the first book published in what would become the United States
- Has the Trump presidency affected America’s reading habits?
- Green Apple Books, one of my favorite bookstores, celebrated its 50th(!) anniversary this week
- Setting up an online book club
- Bookish Lists: 8 worthy books on Venezuela; 7 “must-read” Sherlock Holmes stories; 10 and 12 of the best books about the Vietnam War; 10 novels and memoirs about mental illness
Nonbookish Linkage
- “Fuck” first appeared in court records more than 700 years ago
- A majority of Americans adults under the age of 30 now reject capitalism
- Political cartoons in the age of Trump
- The Voyager spacecraft have explored space for 40 years run by computers that have less computing power than the key fobs we use to unlock our cars
I sometimes feel that I should carry around some sort of rectal thermometer to test the rate at which I am becoming an old fart.
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
