Why are books about books so fascinating?

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

— Anton Chekhov, born in 1860

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb

YEP:  Children should be outside for 4-6 hours every day

 Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang

Delightful Acapella Versions of Familiar Jingles

This is a fun discovery, via Laura Olin’s newsletter: a Korean acapella group called Maytree that does impressions of famous cultural jingles and sound effects. In this video, they perform a number of movie intro tunes (20th Century Fox, Paramount, etc.)

       Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 

       They've announced the winners of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, whose centerpiece is the A$100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, apparently Australia's richest literary prize; it went to the Prize for Fiction-winner, The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay. 
       See also the Scribe publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. 

Why are books about books so fascinating? | The Independent

… even a dry-seeming nonfiction category like “books about books” – a librarian might label them “studies of print culture” – can be dangerously fascinating

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." --Maya Angelou 

 

 Stories

1. "Stories are a communal currency of humanity." --Tahir Shah, in Arabian Nights
2. "Great stories happen to those who can tell them." --Ira Glas
3. "The engineers of the future will be poets." --Terence McKenna
4. "The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." --Mary Catherine Bateson
5. "Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form." --Jean Luc Godard
6. "Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle." --Robert Olen Butler
7. "If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all." --Joseph Campbell
8. "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." --Hannah Arendt
9. "The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions." --Michael Margolis
10. "Those who tell the stories rule the world." --Hopi American Indian proverb
11. "There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place." --J.K. Rowling
12. "Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." --Robert McKee
    

 “In this Map of First Peoples Poetry you can begin anywhere. Each location marker reveals a Native Nations poet and features an image, biography, and a link to hear the poet recite and comment on an original poem. This body of work forms the foundation of a “Living Nations, Living Words” online collection in the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center.”