Jim Shepard’s new novel charts a global health crisis that results from two boys trespassing on a mining site in Greenland.
Source: NYT > Books
Author: Phil Waton
Wellness Links Week of May 11, 2021
Articles I read during the week of May 11 that made me think or stuck with me. The photo at the right is Fuchsia in a hanging basket on my patio. How […]
Source: Librarian by Day
WSJ: Facebook ‘Fact-Checkers’ No Better than ‘Trolls’
Facebook’s “fact checkers” are “no better than trolls who pan political adversaries’ books on Amazon without bothering to read them,” writes physicist Steven E. Koonin in a stinging op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.
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Philip Roth Biography Finds a New Publisher
Skyhorse said it would release the paperback and digital versions of the book, which had been taken out of print following sexual assault allegations against its author, Blake Bailey.
Source: NYT > Books
Penn State Faculty: Ban ‘Male-Centric,’ ‘Western’ Terms Such as ‘Senior’
The faculty senate at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has voted to ban “male-centric” terms like “freshman” and “senior,” and replace them with “1st-year” and “4th-year,” in order to be more “inclusive.”
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