…   Jimmy Sham, leader of Hong Kong democracy group Civil Human Rights Front, attacked on Mong Kok street | South China Morning Post . Som...

…   RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Harold Bloom said, “For me, Shakespeare is God.”

…  Episode 151 – Harold Bloom – The Virtual Memories Show . “I’m a reader and a teacher. Writing comes out of reading and teaching. Those a...

…  Episode 344 – Liz Hand – The Virtual Memories Show . “Henry Darger was a devout Catholic who was engaged in a huge argument with God.”

…   Nigeness: At Last !   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I just ordered a copy.

God is not the object of my reason, nor of my sensibility, but of my being. God exists for me in the same act in which I exist . — Don Co...

…  Hongkongers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP . LeBron James was unavailable for comment.

…   Winning Poems for September 2019 : IBPC . … The Judge's Page . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Entire RAGBRAI staff resigns over Register's handling of Carson King story - KTIV . Methinks it’s the Register that’s in need of res...

…  Oppressed Chinese Citizens Apologize To NBA Players For Disrupting Their Difficult Week | The Babylon Bee .

…  Reading, writing and readability—appreciating Rudolph Flesch | OUPblog . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)  I don’t remember how I was taught to rea...

…  National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Grant Opportunity Announced for Community Reading Programs | NEA .

…  Paul Davis On Crime: Take No Prisoners: My Washington Times Piece On Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez Wanting To Abolish Prison s . The FBI ...

…  Owen A Barfield on Owen Barfield – Mark Vernon .

…  R.I.P. Harold Bloom (1930-2019): “He saw reading as a great human enterprise, an engagement of the passions, a heroic endeavor.” | The Bo...

…  The Poet in the Pulpit: On the Brilliant, Homely Homilies of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Los Angeles Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ...

…  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : John Brown on 16 October 1859 .

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea t...

…  Hong Kong Protesters Burn LeBron James Jerseys After China Comments .

…  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Rapping Homer . You have to be pretty bourgeois to think this sort of thing is anything other than ju...

…  Five Poems by Catfish McDaris . …  Sub – Zero Visibility by Vandana Kumar . …  The Patient fractures after by Arlyn Labelle . …  We...

…  BOOK REVIEW: 'Facing the Bear' - Washington Times . Although there were events that nearly led to World War III during the Cold ...

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird ...

…  Nigeness: Wincing Again: Back to Ackerley .

…   5 Books Published by P.G. Wodehouse on his Birthday – Plumtopia . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Riverside Drive, November Fifth by Katha Pollitt | Poetry Magazine . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Katha Pollitt turned 70 today.

…   [Buffalo Bill 's] by E. E. Cummings | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) E. E. Cummings was born on this date in 1894. ...

…  John Giorno, Storied Artist Who Expanded Poetry's Possibilities, Is Dead at 82 -ARTnews . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  CNEWA - Syria . (hat tip, Cynthia Haven.)

…  Renowned American Jewish literary critic Harold Bloom dies at 89 | The Times of Israel . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Some novels are engaging; others are gripping. Richard Wright's Native Son  -- which must have landed like a bombshell when it was ...

…  Just because: Janet Baker sings Berlioz | About Last Night .

…  An Italian-American Explains His Defense of Columbus Day - The Lid .

…  Why Are We Silent When Black Africans Are Sold Into Slavery Every Day? – HillFaith . It’s happening in Northern Africa in Muslim nations...

…  More Than a Feeling by Tyler Malone | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) “Eureka! Eureka!—I found it! I found it!”—cried Archim...

… predicting is difficult — especially the future:  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Idiotic Environmental Predictions .

…  Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: Ole Pa Goes To The Doctor .

… On This Day in Space! Oct. 14, 1947: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier . I turned 6 on that day.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. — Hannah Arendt , born on this date in 1906

POETRY IN COMMON  & THE GREEN LINE CAFÉ POETRY SERIES  & 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR PEACE AND CHANGE PRESENT AN OPEN POETRY READING THE ...

…  Taking a Social Media-Free Day | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog . I don't do social media.

…  Books that made me | About Last Night . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   I Was Protested At Bard College For Being A Jew – The Forward . I’m surprised they didn’t desecrate Hannah Arendt’s grave. She’s burie...

…  Eye of the Beholder — Alice Mattison reckons with the impacts of macular degeneration …   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I still visit museums, bu...

…  Dark Age Americans Use What Their Ancestors Built and Cant' Replace It . Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearles...

…  How Rednecks Saved Hollywood . Well, it seems that back in the 16th century, in the lowlands of Scotland, John Knox founded the Presbyt...

…  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Before the beginning .

…  A Nobel for Olga Tokarczuk – Poland’s leading novelist! | The Book Haven .

…  How the internet is changing language as we know it (ikr lol) | Books | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) … it shouldn’t be so surpri...

…  The passive-aggressive pontificate continues—and the Synod approaches – Catholic World Report . …  while Francis makes distinctions betw...

…  Newman as Novelist | Commonweal Magazine . (Hat tip Dave Lull.) To be clear, Newman is not the first person, canonized or beatified, to ...

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself. — Albert Jay Nock , born on this date in 1...

…  Robert Forster Dead: Resurgent Oscar Nominee From 'Jackie Brown' Was 78 | Hollywood Reporte r .

…  Celebrating Elmore Leonard's "Rules for Writing" | CrimeReads . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Leonard’s 10 rules have become so ...

…  Papal Pap - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)  Here I offer an interpretation of the Pope’s attack on ad...

…  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Cozy Mystery News — October .

…  ‘I believed it’: John Banville was told he won 2019 Nobel Prize in hoax call . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Beat Column: A Look Back At Pre-Bond Sean Connery In 'The Frightened City' .

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Procession of the Autumn Insects (Matsumura Keibun), Sonnet #479 .

…   ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ and a book launch invitation! | Malcolm Guite . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I just preordered the book.

…  The Clerk’s Forgotten Tale: Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer - Interesting Literature . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) If all of these details make  Tolkie...

…  Blackburn | Hyped on Melancholy . (Hat tip, Virginia Kerr.) As memory condenses timeline, I elide the months between lectures on medieva...

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone un...

…  RT’s Reviews & Marginalia : Dorothy Sayers — how and why she should be read .

I must be out and about, and very soon. Blogging will resume when I get back.

…   Maverick Philosopher: Would Naturalism Make Life Easier? The truth may be this. People who hold a naturalistic view and deny any purpos...

…  Replay: Stéphane Grappelli and George Shearing play “Sweet Georgia Brown” | About Last Night .

…  Events - Kennett Flash : Kennett Flash . … more here:  The Minnesota Chronicles, The Gustafer Yellowgold Story: Volume 2 .

…  Overcoming Bias : Let Foreigners Speak . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Let the listener beware. Don’t believe everything you hear, and if you do...

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought. — François Mauriac , born on this date in 1885

…  Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Alive and Well � | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog . Each breath, a critical fo...

…  John Henry Newman the Poet . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) “Newman was more serious about it than many young men because he shared the sentiment...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: Email From A Hotel Computer .

…  6 Tips for Artists Dealing with Creative Burnout - Artsy . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Can’t say I’ve ever experienced burnout. But then, I’...

…  The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Garrison Keillor . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  The Last WASP in Primetime | The American Conservative . Herbert Stempel’s struggle with Charles Van Doren is far more complicated than ...

…  Apple, Google, Basketball, and Chinese Dominance of American Culture | VodkaPundit . Barely days after getting re-approved on Apple’s Ap...

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia: George Armstrong Custer returns to West Point .

…  Episode 342 – Witold Rybczynski – The Virtual Memories Show . “What Charleston did in the Colonial period with single houses, they basic...

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning. — Ludwig von Mises , who die...

…  the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 October 2019 Archive . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Illegal Alien? What’s That? | Power Line .  You do not advance a cause by employing falsehoods. Journalism advances causes best by cle...

…  Opinion: The latest flip-flop on red meat uses best science in place of best guesses - Los Angeles Times . …   many of the nation’s offi...

…  Haunted House For Progressives Just Normal Conservative Man's Home Containing Bibles, Guns, And A Copy Of The Constitution | The Baby...

…   5 Stunning Jericho Brown Poems to Read Today | Book Riot . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Watch: Oklahoman and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo talks about listening, the path of a poet, infant memories and more on Oprah Winfrey...

…   I am a part of Batavia, New York | Spectator USA . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Genuine diversity, that formerly useful word that has been dr...

…  Snapshot: Frederick Ashton rehearses Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev | About Last Night .

…  Steps from God. . .to the Religion of the Self - The Catholic Thing . (Hat tip, Rich Lloret.) When American constitutional law imagined ...

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia: You and I .

Moonstone Press just released the poetry chapbook,  Violence – In My City . The chapbook captures moments in time as the numbness of daily...

…  Edward Snowden's true permanent record - Washington Times .  The report further states that before Mr. Snowden began his mass downloa...

…   The American Scholar: You Must Be Joking — Thomas Chatterton Williams . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) A work of art does not have to be overtly...

…  Siris: 'Tis the Old History . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature? | The New Republic . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of th...

…  He was so popular in Polish films he got an American film contract. Then… | The Book Haven .

…  Mr. Armstrong, meet Mr. Shaw | About Last Night . That’s right,  Don Juan in Hell . Believe it or not, Louis Armstrong owned a copy of t...

…  A Bundle of Hopes and Hungers . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  Augustine realizes that even his own self-conception and identity is contingent...

…  Streets With Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered | The American Conservative . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Why are nooks and crannie...