We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Harvard: Why the Crew, and not the Captain, Will Save AmericaBlack Agenda
Workers Strike at Medicare, ACA Call CentersMegPage Today
Mystery ingredients in ancient recipes for bronze objects deciphered by researchers CNN
Earth’s Aunties Noema
Winter Work: A Novel by Dan Fesperman
On a chilly early morning walk on the
wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow
Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in
his right hand. Despite appearances, Emil suspects murder.
Meanwhile, CIA agent Claire Saylor,
sent to Berlin to assist an Agency mop-up action against their collapsing East
German adversaries, has just received an upgrade to her assignment.
Max Lawton Q & A
Biblioklept has An interview with Max Lawton about translating Vladimir Sorokin's brilliant novel Telluria.
Telluria is due out from New York Review Books shortly -- see their publicity page --; I have my copy and should be getting to it soon.
Lawton is very ambitious, and has both promising translations forthcoming -- a pile of more Sorokin; Jonathan Littell's An Old Story -- and hopes to get to much more (not least; "the three insanely fucked volumes" of Régis Jauffret's Microfictions).
Los Angeles and baseball fans everywhere are mourning the death of Vin Scully at age 94. Vin was the voice of the Dodgers (and Los Angeles) for 67 years. My dear fried and former colleague Bob Cochran sent me this wonderful interview with Vin for my Sunday faith posts
The Secret Of Vin Scully's Success: Faith
David Hare Q & A
At The Guardian Matthew Reisz has a Q & A with David Hare: ‘There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment’.
I haven't reviewed any of Hare's work in quite a while, but several of his plays are under review at the complete review; see, for example, Stuff Happens.
One of 5G’s Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield
Wired – “New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data. True 5G wireless data, with its ultrafast speeds and enhanced security protections, has been slow to roll out around the world. As the mobile technology proliferates—combining expanded speed and bandwidth with low-latency connections—one of its most touted features is starting to come in to focus. But the upgrade comes with its own raft of potential security exposures…”