From vintage hats to the pleasures of Shakespeare, what I read and enjoyed on the web this week:
- Watch a video from the Smithsonian featuring Philadelphia fashion pioneer Mae Reeves vintage hat collection.
- An archivist uncovers 500 year old playing cards.
- Rob Lowe discusses writing his memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: an Autobiography with the New York Times.
- Rolling Stone gives us the beat on the record industry’s digital storage crisis.
- They finally cast an actress to play Katniss in the new Hunger Games film – Jennifer Lawrence
- Publisher Random House asked twitter “Who is your favorite villain in literature?” Check out the responses!
- Charles Simic writes about a country without libraries and it’s not good.
- The National Post discusses how Shakespeare changed everything.
- The Christine Science Monitor lets us know that the entire library of Star Wars fiction will become available in e-book format this summer.
- And Bert of Sesame Street has a conversation with actor Andy Samberg.
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The Charles Simic New York Review article reminds me of a blog post I wrote in 2004 about the closing of the Old Widener Branch Library in North Philadelphia. Fortunately, this wasn't a permanent closure, but a much desired move into a beautiful new location just down the street.Still a library closing is a hearftfelt event. The blog post can be found at:
http://phillypersonability.blogspot.com/2004/11/hollow-feeling.html
Friday, May 20, 2011