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Weekend Edition: 11-6

Nonbookish Linkage

Sorry, time travel will be a one-way ticket A short history of the public restroom Merriam-Webster adds 455 words to its dictionary You never had Channel 37 because of astronomy

Bookish Linkage

DOJ says books matter National Book Critics Circle, of which I’m a member, will have a new award for books in […]

Weekend Edition: 10-30

Nonbookish Linkage

America’s worst right-wingers Shocking: belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories linked to greater likelihood of contracting the virus Where demons come from “Skull blasting” was a means of creating more relics out of one skull The internet and social media have moved witchcraft online

Bookish Linkage

What causes the smell of old books? A […]

Weekend Edition: 10-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

America is ending (“The fights over masks and vaccinations for Covid-19 is an overwhelming measure of intellectual and moral deterioration of the country.”) The Largest Autocracy on Earth (“The freedom to destroy yourself is one thing. The freedom to destroy democratic society is quite another.”)

Nonbookish Linkage

A professor’s […]

Weekend Edition: 10-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings (“American society lacks the language to describe itself, and as a result it is incapable of diagnosing and rectifying its own destruction.”)

Headline of the Week

The Trump Presidency Is Still An Active Crime Scene

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A brief […]

Weekend Edition: 10-9

Nonbookish Linkage

The more exciting and entertaining a conspiracy theory is, the more likely people are to believe them “For these folks, facts mean nothing“ What if the US didn’t go to war in Afghanistan? The “pro-life” party of death

Bookish Linkage

Book lovers live longer than non-readers The National Book Award finalists were announced. […]