Fun piece about Tom Hanks and typewriters. Who knew!? Enjoyed this. Thank you, Joel J Miller buff.ly/3PvemJl

For most of human history, tyrants ruled.

They enslaved people, confiscated property, waged endless war.

Only a few hundred years ago, free markets emerged.

David Boaz explains what that changed:

“I imagined that God had created light so that people could read, and through reading, see other worlds.”
—Évariste Galois

NEW: PEN America’s latest #FreedomToWrite Index finds that at least 339 writers were held behind bars in 33 different countries during 2023. Amid war and ongoing persecution, the number of writers jailed globally reached a 5-year high.

Read: pen.org/report/freedom…

After you get up close, you find that everyone is a human being.

Did you know books have lots of hidden treasures beyond the main text? 📖
Dedications, notes & more add extra insight about the author & work. #Read4U #BookishSecrets
What hidden gems have you discovered? aili.app/share/2MNtt0DY…

Remembering Reverend Gary Davis (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972)

If you’ve ever wondered how book deals are made, including the question of royalties and advances, here’s a look at the mysterious math of publishing 👉 millersbookreview.com/p/puzzle-of-pu…

This looks killer

Can you summarize Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning Border Trilogy in a single sentence? Yes and no. 👉 millersbookreview.com/p/cormac-mccar…

Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
― Albert Einstein

The real nineteenth century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
― Albert Camus

Very helpful breakdown from Joel J Miller

He’s right! And optimistic!

Alan Cornett as I'm listening to the latest Cultural Debris with Joel J Miller and something occurs to me. If we want better books to be produced more often and to last shouldn't MORE people that care about books be reading the new releases? If that is the top of the filter it

Can you summarize Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning Border Trilogy in a single sentence? Yes and no. 👉 millersbookreview.com/p/cormac-mccar…

Great review of what sounds like a great book.

If you’ve ever wondered how book deals are made, including the question of royalties and advances, here’s a look at the mysterious math of publishing 👉 millersbookreview.com/p/puzzle-of-pu…

“It was doubtful whether the ridiculousness of man would ever completely succeed in destroying the world...”

—Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha
millersbookreview.com/p/angelou-cage…

So, this article 'No One Buys Books' went viral last week. elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

But then I came across this counterpoint, which made some excellent points countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people-d…

And then there's Joel J Miller summing up with publishing experience millersbookreview.com/p/puzzle-of-pu…

“What you hate, do not do to anyone.”
—Tobit 4.15

In this image, Tobit sends his son Tobias to retrieve his treasure after giving him the above advice. It’s one the earliest examples of the Golden Rule inverted—what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls the Silver Rule.