This week, the Iranian government shut down the country’s internet, trying to stop the protests that threaten to topple the ayatollah and his regime. Something odd happened: the Iranian shutdown also caused numerous social media accounts promoting Scottish independence from Britain to go dark. I wonder how that happened.
Author Gayle Feldman is publishing a biography of Truman Capote this month, and in an excerpt posted at Literary Hub, she describes how Bennett Cerf at Random House guided In Cold Blood to publication. I can remember reading it in high school, mesmerized by the book and simultaneously horrified at the story of how cold-blooded the two killers were. Capote was part of the wave known as “New Journalism,” which included Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion, and others.
Agatha Christie was known for avoiding the spotlight. She hated giving interviews. But she did relent, at least once, in 1955, and talked with the BBC. A great line from the interview: “There’s nothing like boredom to make you write.”
More Good Reads
America 250
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World by Richard Bell – review by Timothy Symington at Journal of the American Revolution.
Stoke the Fire for America’s 250th – Andrw Zwerneman at On Classical Education.
The American Revolution Comes to Georgia The Battle of the Riceboats, 1776 – Robert Scott Davis at Journal of the American Revolution.
Writing and Literature
“A little learning is a dangerous thing” – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song on Alexander Pope’s 1711 essay.
Tools I Use to Run My Writing and Coaching Business – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.
In Praise of Bibliographies – Christine Norvell at Front Porch Republic.
Why Contemporary Fiction Can Be Great – Lucas Smith at The Sprawl of Quality.
C.S. Lewis Goes to Venus – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
The Remnant: The Last Christians of Denmark – NorthHugr (video).
The Closure of the World’s Oldest Monastery – D.P. Curtin at Real Clear Religion.
The Sticky Sin of Always Being Right – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
Life and Culture
Against Very Online Candidates – Alexander Salter at The Imaginative Conservative.
Foreign Fraud Gangs Are Ripping Off West Coast States – Christopher Rufo.
News Media
Why Twitter matters – Chris Bayliss at The Critic Magazine.
British Stuff
A Muslim state loses faith in British education – James Price at The Critic Magazine.
Poetry
“The Fly,” poem by William Blake – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Life in a Northern Town – Justin Hayward with Mike Batt
Painting: Girl Reading, oil on canvas (1872) by George Cochran Lambdin (1830-1896).
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