Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Every Dog Is a Rescue Dog (“They enlarge our sympathies and sweeten our disposition. They pry open the day when it balls up into a little fist.”)
- The Third Force (“Chronic stupidity is not the result of injury or genetics; it’s a learned behavior.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Nonbookish Linkage
- What schools teach about 9/11
- What comes after liberalism?
- Mysteries still surround disappearance of submarines from four nations in 1968
- Here’s the winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes
- How jazz gave the bazooka its name
- Netflix created thousands of American F1 fans (my addiction included)
Bookish Linkage
- Paper shortage threatening publishing industry, i.e. “real” books
- A brief history of crime literature
- Susanna Clarke won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for Piranesi, which I thought was one of the best books published in 2020
- I wish more authors did this
Dogs are experts on love. They have a Ph.D. in love.
David Crosby, Rolling Stone (July-August 2021)
