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“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.” Barbara Pym, Less than Angels...Read more
Law.com – “…This is a civil action by the United States to prevent Defendant John R. Bolton, a former National Security Advisor, from compromising national security by publishing a book containing classified information,” the Justice Department said in its complaint Tuesday in Washington. The Trump administration on Tuesday went to court in Washington in an effort to block the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, named only Bolton as a defendant. The complaint seeks among other things an order requiring Bolton “to instruct or request his publisher, insofar as he has the authority to do so, to further delay the release date” of the memoir…The lawsuit, brought by the DOJ’s civil division, sets up a potential fiery clash over the scope of the First Amendment, and it comes just weeks before the book is set for public release. News reports indicate Bolton’s memoir “The Room Where It Happened” is due out June 23….A manuscript of Bolton’s book was at the heart of the Senate’s impeachment trial after The New York Times reported that it detailed conversations in which Trump directly linked Ukraine announcing investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden to lifting a hold on military aid to the country…”
‘Dracula’ Wasn’t Inspired By Transylvania — It Was Inspired By Ireland
The town of Sligo, specifically, and the dire cholera outbreak there in 1832. Dracula author Bram Stoker’s mother lived through that epidemic, and there’s evidence, circumstantial but convincing, that it was her memories of the pestilence on which Stoker built the original vampire novel; Transylvania, which the author never visited, was sikmply a stand-in location. – Atlas Obscura