> "When all is said and done, social forces, however real and requiring notice, fall away and reveal, if only for a moment to be sought again and again in rereading, the glory of what [Harold] Bloom tells us is irreducible," Stanley Fish writes. https://t.co/kYE4yOqvUB…
> Just stopped cold by terrific explanation in our 5th grader’s English textbook on the relationship between reading and freedom: pic.twitter.com/4KrRBApdEA [https://t.co/4KrRBApdEA] — Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) February 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/nprscottsimon/status/960628792933920769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> Domenico DeMarco has been making pizzas at Brooklyn’s famous Di Fara Pizza since 1965. pic.twitter.com/YB8b7w4rWC [https://t.co/YB8b7w4rWC] — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 4, 2017 [https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/937721729727610881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] A video to warm a bread baker's…
I definitely don't want to lose track of this. For years I've been telling anyone who cared to listen (or was forced to) that Middlemarch is the greatest novel of all time. Now, Open Culture [https://goo.gl/NFdTMs] lets me know that it's…
An incredible and a touching story of friends who began reading to each other 35 years ago and have kept it up. I wish I had thought or been invited to do the same, especially for poetry. This story has it all—thoughts on friendship, listening (and being listened to)…
> "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."#Cervantes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cervantes?src=hash], Don Quixote. — Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) January 16, 2016 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/688318639712391168] > Book One of Don…
http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/131287958631/france-introduces-short-story-dispensers-in-public This is right up there with putting Jane Austen's portrait on a 10 pound note [http://mikeschultz.posthaven.com/other-peoples-money] or a short story on a postage stamp [http://www.thejournal.ie/fighting-worlds-stamp-912325-May2013/?utm_source=shortlink] .…
Q revisits an essay from Jian Ghomeshi [http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/Q/ID/2441645903/] and pulls the following quote > Surely the nuances of human communication and most certainly of literature require a little ... inefficiency; a little space to think and to feel; to consider and reconsider Though…