Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Case for Socialized Law? (“It must be that, in the eyes of the law, there is no difference between rich and poor. If the rich have more rights—if they have fuller status as citizens—then by definition everyone else has fewer rights and lesser status.”)
- Eleanor Catton on literature and elitism (“At its best, literature is pure encounter: it resists consumption because it cannot be used up and it cannot expire.”)
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes – Post Super Bowl Edition
- Bob Dylan’s 115th Sellout (“… only when you misunderstand Dylan can you accuse him of betraying ideals he never really had–or hasn’t had in a half century.”)
- Coca-Cola Critics Have Never Heard of ‘E Pluribus Unum’ (“…the Coke commercial was the Ghost of Christmas Future providing them a glimpse of an America that features even more people speaking languages other than English, practicing other faiths than their own and celebrating cultures they don’t understand. That scares the crap out of them.”)
Best Blog Headline of the Week
Most Mind-Blowing Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Links
- A Cuban author believes censorship is a strategy for freedom in his country
- What makes a book a classic
- Author credits Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” with making her a writer
- What speed do you read?
- How SF is failing its fans
- Bookish Lists: the top 25 books that changed history; I’ve read a little more than a third of Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime; a Pasadena bookstore has picked two books set in each state to “read your way across the USA” (but one of the books supposedly set in South Dakota is actually set in Nebraska); and the shortlist for the 2013 Discover Award;
Nonbookish Links
- Nine actual, though perhaps disgusting, medieval love potions
- Life as an exorcist
- Seeing God in SF movies
All I really know is I don’t wanna know
Counting Crows, “Amy Hit the Atmosphere,”
This Desert Life
