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Bookish marginalia

As “fug” is unquestionably being overused in the press and blogs regarding Norman Mailer’s death, I’ll instead note it by a collection of book-related links from the last several days:

Good thing they can only throw digital images of books. LibraryThing calls Shelfari “unethical” and “basically social networking rapists.” Continuing to encourage travel and international […]

Midweek marginalia

I was originally going to do a somewhat lengthy post regarding the first item below but suffice it to say that while the rhetoric is extreme and pessimistic, a sad truth underlies it.

One of the better politically oriented blog posts I’ve read in a long time: The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our […]

Monday night marginalia

No wonder a chill was running down my spine most of the day. A CJR essay makes a cogent argument that “journalism needs a rhetoric beat.” Britannica Blog has a very interesting post on why the written word has “no real information value” for communicating with an extraterrestrial civilization. Colbert may be done but […]

Travel interruptus marginalia

Out-of-state travel is the cause of the latest interruption of blogging — plus it made me go cold turkey for several days from my hockey addiction. Rather than regaling readers with travel tales, here’s several items items I’ve noticed over the last week or so.

Denise Ross has launched a website, including a blog, for […]

Sunday morning marginalia

PP has an excellent post about the Capitol mural South Dakota hides. Just after posting about Emma Larkin’s Finding George Orwell in Burma, I learned she has been back to the country and is blogging about the state of affairs there at her publisher’s website. (Via.) There’s an excellent piece in The Guardian on […]