Bulletin Board
- My review of The Autobiography of Satan has been republished at BookGlow
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Why We Must Still Defend Free Speech (“It is easy to recognize inequality; it is virtually impossible to articulate a standard for suppression of speech that would not afford government officials dangerously broad discretion and invite discrimination against particular viewpoints.”)
Bookish Linkage
- It looks like there’s plenty of gender bias in the NYT Book Review
- And it doesn’t help when the Review puts its foot in it
- Escondido, Cal., is privatizing its public library system
- The “book women” of the Pack Horse Library
- A brief history of book burning
- Can books be your best friends?
- Bookish Lists: 10 Labor Day books actually about the labor movement
Nonbookish Linkage
- There’s good reason for the concern ecpressed in the Interesting Reading quote
- So why is World War I America’s forgotten war?
- “Sex education in the United States is a joke.”
- A history of filmnoia, on-screen depictions of paranoia
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton”
