Simone Weil, John Green, Children's Books - August 24 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Thu, 08/24/17

















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August 24, 2017
 
“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, novelist,
who was born on this day

Watch John Green's 
2013 Commencement Speech at Butler University


 
Today also marks the anniversary of the
death of philosopher, Simone Weil
Read a helpful introduction to her work ...




New on our website... 

* Bruce Handy – The Joys Of Revisiting Children’s Books [Interview]

An Excellent Public Radio interview with Bruce Handy, author of the new book:
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult
Bruce Handy  (Hardback: Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Listen to this interview from public radio station WNYC… 

 

* Habertal / Holmes -The Beginning of Politics [Review]

An Obsession With Gaining and Keeping Power.   A Review of The Beginning of Politics:
Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel. by Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes.
(Hardback: Princeton UP, 2017)  Reviewed by James Honig

 

 

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books