Dumb Lawyer of the Month (Year?) Award
- No, you may not give specific legal advice on how to orchestrate a killing in a way calculated to provide a fabricated defense to criminal charges
Nonbookish Linkage
- The story of Noah’s Ark may have been fake news
- Where did music come from?
- Confronting “Who We Are”
- How the Black Death changed society
- The Center for Systemic Peace has downgraded the U.S. from a democracy to an “anocracy” (loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship), losing the country’s designation as the world’s oldest, continuous democracy
Bookish Linkage
- How Irmgard Keun, one of my favorite German authors, disappeared from the Nazis (her After Midnight is well worth reading)
- Check out some phone booth libraries
- Or take a look at the Bodleian Book Coffer
- Oddest Book Title of the Year: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path
- Saving books from “Book People“
- Check out the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
- Write what you know: the author of a book about a serial killer is accused of murder
[T]he best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
