> “I approach every reading decision with the same question: not just ‘Will this be good?’ but ‘Even if it’s good, will I wish that I’d spent those hours rereading Middlemarch instead?’” NEW Editors' Picks: @stephaniedk96 [https://twitter.com/stephaniedk96?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]'s favorite…
Mary Beard surprises with this bit 0f information about the Roman Catiline's lineage in SPQR: > Among his blue-blooded forebears, his great-grandfather was a hero of the war against Hannibal, with the extra claim to fame of being the first man known to have entered combat with a…
> #WordsofWisdom [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordsofWisdom?src=hash] from the great author and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. pic.twitter.com/cvCQg3FHcH [http://t.co/cvCQg3FHcH] — Big Think (@bigthink) June 18, 2015 [https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/611534082623672320] I've already got some of Rilke's poetry in…
At dinner with a friend Saturday the conversation drifted to what's wrong with baseball. The video replay got specific mention; there were mutterings about they're trying to fix what isn't broken, they're making a game that's already long longer. There…
I've just set out on reading Perry Miller's Life of the Mind in America (the third volume) and have been delighted to find that to Charles Grandison Finney, one of the key figures of the Second American Awakening in the 1830s, are ascribed the words "…
> Sometimes I encounter evidence that I've learned something over the years. This confuses me, since I thought I knew everything back then. — Anil Dash (@anildash) April 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/451959849937813504] Yesterday I was surprised to find evidence not necessarily that I've…
> In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading http://t.co/33sPcTRDXK #Read26Indy [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Read26Indy&src=hash] — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) January 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/jcufaude/statuses/419514154995572736] Jeffrey Cufaude and David Mikics do one heck of a job encouraging me to read more.…
I've been enjoying thumbing through a copy of My Ideal Bookshelf. The book collects lists of favorite books and invites readers to build their own: > Select a small shelf of books that represent you—the books that have changed your life, that have made you who you…