Bulletin Board
- Monday is International Jazz Day.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- A teacher, a student and a 39-year-long lesson in forgiveness (“The beauty of an apology is that everyone wins because it reveals not only who we are, but who we hope we are.”)
- The capital of the forgetful (“There is a slow-moving tsunami of dementia advancing towards us as our population ages.”) (via)
Bookish Linkage
- Despite 15 years of talk, one of my Desert Island Books, The Sparrow, is no closer to the big screen. But I’m not complaining about Mary Doria Russell’s reason: “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life apologizing to people who would feel betrayed by a screen adaptation that didn’t face up to the central issues of the story.”
- Book Reviews: A Tortured History
- Reading and the art of ‘rerouting’
- The most cryptic titles in literature
- Should there be an Instagram for books?
- It’s Not So Easy Giving Away Books: World Book Night US
Nonbookish Linkage
- So where did the Supreme Court justices deciding the fate of Arizona’s immigration law come from? (via)
- Ooops. Magazine photographers drop a 2,600-year-old terracotta statue while moving it for a photo, destroying it.
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
Johnny Griffin, quoted in Talking Jazz
The apology story was lovely. Thank you for the link to it.