Sunday, April 05, 2020

Apparently, Everyone Wants To Read Camus Right Now

MEdia Dragons share their  thoughts with a young friend, “When you are old, no one can ever imagine what you were like when you were young. It’s as if you’ve always been old – or as though you’ve lived in two different lives, one of which seems made up and overblown, hard to believe. It will happen to you as well, of course, in time. But you probably don’t know what I’m talking about, do you?”  Something for all of us to learn on several levels.


YOU HAVE TO LAUGH, BECAUSE THERE’S SO MUCH TO CRY ABOUT:  The coronavirus laughs never stop illustrated edition



The art world has survived outlaw days and obscene money, keeping its culture intact. But can it survive this?...  Art world



This is a really good list, although Tarsem’s “The Fall” left me cold. Stunning to look at, but not much there there


Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81




“Hemingway: What are you writing?

Quinn:  Grim stories about political exiles in Miami buying guns to send to Cuba.  The grimness is redeemed by my simple declarative sentences.

Hemingway: Remove the colon and semicolon keys from your typewriter.  Shun adverbs, strenuously.”


“Circular Quay. [Ellie] loved even the sound of it. Before she saw the bowl of bright water, swelling like something sexual, before she saw the blue, unprecedented, and the clear sky sloping upwards, she knew from the lilted words it would be a circle like no other, key to a new world.”—Ellie, at the Opera House in Sydney

Apparently, Everyone Wants To Read Camus Right Now



What Happens To This Spring’s Most Anticipated Books?


Remember last fall and winter? Well, there were plans: “Months ago, in what now feels like another era, publishers planning their 2020 schedules hoped to avoid releasing books in the fall, typically the industry’s biggest season. Editors and writers worried that new releases would be lost in the deluge of political news leading up to the presidential election, so publishers jammed some of their biggest titles into the spring.” – The New York Times



Online Buyers For Powell’s Are So Hungry For Books That Company Recalls 100 Laid-Off Workers


Some of the still laid-off Powell’s staff are unhappy with the way the company has handled the store closures and layoffs, but for others, the present is a little rosier. CEO Emily Powell wrote on Friday in a memo on the website, “Thanks to your orders on Powells.com, we now have over 100 folks working at Powell’s again – all full time with benefits.” – The Oregonian