‘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/

After 18 months of being relocated (nicely I must say) for building repairs further west on 10th street, my favorite store is back where it was. Go see it.

One of the books I bought yesterday.       

                                                

Press Freedom: why you should be worried. A news video from ‘The Economist’:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojvsUv_08Zk&feature=share

A week ago I cancelled my home delivery. I’d been getting a newspaper all my life but thought I could now make do with just the fast-breaking digital version. Well, I just called and re-subscribed to home delivery. I missed the morning paper. 

 

How a book about abortion in 1960s France became the timeliest movie of the year: (from latimes.com):

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-05-03/page-to-screen-how-the-new-french-abortion-film-happening-compares-to-the-novel

 

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/

How Public Libraries Are Seeding America’s Gardens

Libraries across the country are fighting food insecurity by offering communities free seeds and gardening education

https://www.eater.com/23043915/seed-library-free-seeds-gardening

 

These are books school systems don’t want you to read, and why (from the Washington Post).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/28/book-banned-why-locations/?itid=hp-top-table-main

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

‘Gradually, I began to discover that I was on to more than I had thought.’

 https://lithub.com/robert-m-pirsig-on-the-book-he-wrote-and-the-one-he-didnt/