Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- We Could Have Changed the World (“The pandemic laid bare the speed at which societal change can occur when the threat is big enough. Conversely, society’s reopening is revealing just how quickly we can slide back into complacency.”)
Blog Quote of the Week
- “The South Dakota GOP has wielded so much power for so long that we’re becoming an incubator of thought so appallingly un-American and un-Christian, but yet so impossible to discuss without dangerously being labeled an enemy or communist or even un-Christian yourself.”
Nonbookish Linkage
- Per the Blog Quote of the Week, this will exceed our whackjob capacity
- What’s the most damaging conspiracy theory in history?
- The story of the medieval toilet
- The lives of Neanderthal children
- If you hadn’t noticed, the problem with quotes on the internet is they’re often phony
- Who’s afraid of critical race theory?
- The story of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
- A Norwegian company is building a Global Music Vault to preserve the world’s most important music recordings
Bookish Linkage
- Powell’s Books is celebrating its anniversary with 50 Books for 50 Years
- The rise of must-read TV
- A “non-essential freedom”: browsing second-hand bookshops
- France buys the original de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom for $5 million
- What happens if you sneeze on a priceless manuscript?
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
Glenn Cook, Shadow Games
