Bulletin Board
- Today is National Readathon Day. You know what to do.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Hunting of Billie Holiday (“[Chief drug enforcer Harry] Anslinger took jazz as yet more proof that marijuana drives people insane.”)
- Why Don’t More People Kill Themselves (“What surprises me is that more people don’t choose to avoid the final unpleasantness of pain, incapacity, and indignity.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Melville House adopts its own list of topics to be avoided in its books
- Deciding what books to read when you’ve only got so much time left
- Yet another best-selling partially fictionalized memoir
- The role of real science in SF
- Bookish Lists: 50 books that will make you more interesting; NBCC book awards finalists; the century’s greatest novels (already???)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Western society has a severe case of “stuffocation“
- Twelve of the worst religious concepts
- Science, meet journalism
- “Winning” the internet addiction quiz
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
