Auburn in bloom: Sydney Cherry Blossom festival 2025 – in pictures
Everything Kevin Kelly knows about self-publishing
Finally - Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading skills
NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA: Science Fiction? Think Again. Scientists Are Learning How to Decode Inner Thoughts
“Evil can be a spiritual experience, too.” Mary Gaitskill turns to the words of murders and rapists to understand violence... more »
Opera Australia’s Next Music Director: Andrea Battistoni
Peter Carey on Ned Kelly
At The Guardian they have a long piece of Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’, as he 'revisits' his True History of the Kelly Gang, twenty-five years on.
Much of this is on exhibit in the Creative Acts: Artists and their inspirations exgibit that runs 15 August through 31 May
Jantar Publishing Q & A
At Radio Prague International Ian Willoughby has a Q & A with Michael Tate on Czech roots, Prague -- and the serendipitous birth of Jantar Publishing.
Several Jantar titles are under review at the complete review -- e.g. Jan Křesadlo's GraveLarks -- and I certainly expect to get to more
Bára Dočkalová Q & A
At Radio Prague International Danny Bate has a Q & A with the Magnesia Litera prize winner (in the category for children and young people), in “We need to be willing to play, and to be curious”: Award-winning author Bára Dočkalová on writing Czech and teaching English.
People in a 1920s Berlin Nightclub Flirting via Pneumatic Tubes
“It was the Tinder of the early 20th century.”
Two nightclubs in particular—the Resi and the Femina—pioneered the trend. At the Resi (also called the Residenz-Casino), a large nightclub with a live band and a dance floor that held 1,000 people, an elaborate system of table phones and pneumatic tubes allowed for anonymous, late-night flirtation between complete strangers.
Full article found on Atlas Obscura
