SUNDAY READING: SOCIAL-MEDIA DISRUPTERS (from ‘The New Yorker’):
https://apple.news/AurBM-zzSTjaEHj3nKS7jsA
SUNDAY READING: SOCIAL-MEDIA DISRUPTERS (from ‘The New Yorker’):
https://apple.news/AurBM-zzSTjaEHj3nKS7jsA
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/12/librarians-push-back-against-book-banning_partner/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/books/review/don-lee-partition.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-pitfalls-and-repetitions-of-political-journalism
Here’s how the Times report on the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade came together — and made it into print.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/insider/supreme-court-reporting.html?referringSource=articleShare
‘The Last Days of Roger Federer’ is about so much more than tennis
Geoff Dyer’s new book explores endings — and the challenges we face as we approach them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/05/01/last-days-roger-federer-book/
Press Freedom: why you should be worried. A news video from ‘The Economist’:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojvsUv_08Zk&feature=share
Teens fight for the right to read with ‘banned-book clubs’ and lawsuits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/03/teens-books-ban-clubs-protest/
https://www.eater.com/23043915/seed-library-free-seeds-gardening
https://lithub.com/robert-m-pirsig-on-the-book-he-wrote-and-the-one-he-didnt/
What ‘The New Yorker’ Didn’t Say About a Famous Writer’s Anti-Semitism
Why are Alice Walker’s vile beliefs about Jews treated so gently? (in ‘The Atlantic’):
https://apple.news/AGFnqRuJaT6Sqbikdv2jU5g
Banning books about Black and LGBTQ people isn’t protecting America’s youth
‘Great libraries have materials on their shelves (or in their e-circulation platforms) to support everyone trying to educate themselves, from home-schooling Christians to LGBTQ youths.’
https://apple.news/ArhROOrmqQkOjrue4zuttOw
Nostalgia (and Millennials) Could Lead to a Bookstore Resurgence
https://apple.news/ArFBFo1moR3O9nMSdHaRQWA
How Barnes & Noble went from Villain to Hero (from the New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/arts/barnes-noble-bookstores.html?referringSource=articleShare
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/inside-someone-elses-head-a-conversation-with-jennifer-egan/
By the window where I sit in my branch library two and 1/2 blocks from where I live. I don’t get much accomplished at the library that I couldn’t do at home. But I do put a coat or a sweater on to go out. I do turn the lights out in the apartment before I leave. I do take the day’s NYT to leave at the library for anyone who might want it. I do see things along the walk to the library. I see books, some new ones, at the library. I could go on about other things and people I see outside my apartment when I venture out. I don’t think it’s all good this trend to stay at home.
Ocean Vuong Is Still Learning
An interview in ‘The New Yorker’: The author of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and the new poetry collection “Time Is a Mother” has won a MacArthur “genius” grant, yet keeps his white-belt approach to writing.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/ocean-vuong-is-still-learning
I think about giving up my New York Times subscription. It costs more. It’s an obligation to read it. Newer news is online. Last night’s scores. But I’ll keep getting it. I like the familiar morning routine. I recycle it by leaving it for whoever wants it in the branch library vestibule. More important is the big size of the paper, and the big photos. Look at this one. It’s haunting. It’s by Lynsey Addario.
The local library branch near me has books of course and places to plug in your laptop. It also has people who are drawn to libraries. It’s comfortable to be in a place like that. I’m drawn to libraries. Always was. When I’m in Wyoming with mountains and big scenery, I still go to the library every day. I have a card for the Teton County Library. As a kid in a small town I’d go in the library a lot. My friends really didn’t. My high school girlfriend and I in her town 7 miles from mine before I could drive would often stop in the library there on our walk into town to the hangout the Sugar Bowl in the evening. I sadly didn’t like my college’s library. Here’s a guy in the chair next to me today in Manhattan in the local branch.
'We Became Like a Big Startup.' How Kyiv Adapted the City's Tech to Save Lives. (this was in TIME magazine):https://apple.news/A2wJvHgG8R1OV_biEFWkrlA