Thanks very much to Seth Fischer for sitting in for me last Saturday. We had a fabulous day.
We Who Are About To Die is running a series on negative book reviews. I especially liked this one by Jamie Berger on honesty.
Francine Prose revisits her 1998 essay on gender inequality in publishing and notes that it’s sad that her essay isn’t dated by now. You can read the original essay here.
Who was George Scott? He led, though he didn’t command, the Union troops at the Battle of Big Bethel. And he was black. It’s one of the many stories about the Civil War I had no idea existed before I started reading Disunion.
The creator of Mad Libs has died.
The Pentagon Papers are finally going to be declassified. They’ve been released in the past, though redacted, and have been famously leaked, but they’re being fully declassified now for the first time. I wonder if it will take 40 years for the Wikileaks cables to be declassified?
