Saturday Miscellany—6/13/20

that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis—a great tribute to the late author of True Grit.
Just Read the Book Already: Digital culture doesn’t have to make you a shallow reader. But you have to do something about it.—Technically a review of one book, but it’s a lot more.
How Publishers Determine When to Release Hardcover Books in Paperback
There’s No Hype Machine for Selling Literature to Dudes—Some interesting thoughts about men and literature.
The Linguistic Case for Sh*t Hitting the Fan: Idioms have a special power to draw people together in a way that plain speech doesn’t.
The Top 10 Worst Book to Movie Fantasy Adaptations—I’ve watched a frightening number of these and I won’t disagree with their inclusion here.
Audiobooks: Are They For You?—Bookidote’s Lashaan discusses his attempts to get into audiobooks.
8 Bookish Awards for the First Half of 2020—Black Sail Books looks at the first half of 2020
The Act Of Multi-reading and Four Tips To Get You Started—In case this is a goal for you. I do this from time to time, but I’ve never thought about cultivating it as a skill. This would probably do the trick, though.

Episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
Remember Reading?—I stumbled onto this podcast looking back at classic children’s books this week and have listened to a handful of episodes—it’s a lot of fun when they’re talking about the classics. When the conversation turns to the writing/books of the guests, I tend to lose interest (probably wouldn’t if children’s lit was a focus of mine). But I still recommend giving this stuff a listen.

That I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
The Ghosts of Sherwood by Carrie Vaughn—The first in Vaughn’s duology (that I hope ends up expanding) about Robin Hood’s children. I wrote about it a couple of days back..

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