Bulletin Board
- I’ve got a review of Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1942-1944 over at Cinema Sentries
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- The Admission (“Was this really my life now? I couldn’t think of a greater failing than not being able to keep yourself alive.”)
Bookish Linkage
- Vietnam is a country, not a war
- A worthwhile interview with the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House Books
- Alternate history in the high school curriculum
- Chronicle of the Murdered House, a classic of Brazilian literature first published in 1959, was finally released in English last year and has won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction
- Reading makes men more attractive, at least in the UK — and if Harry Potter isn’t their favorite book
- Bookish Lists: 10 most highlighted passages from The Handmaid’s Tale; 11 characters having a worse day than you; 5 great novels about refugees and migrants; 5 books that define the Seventies; 9 nine ways reading is good for your mental health
Nonbookish Linkage
- Getting to know your dad after he’s spent 30 years in prison
- Are we in danger of losing our Internet?
- Does a lack of cognitive ability mean democracy is doomed?
- Five questions explaining the SDS
- Will the First Amendment survive 2017?
- How Trump could get fired
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, October 10, 2011
