What is the best automobile for readers? Let’s answer this question today right here. I put forward Exhibit A: the VW Jetta, with a standard Loeb Classic holder easily accessible to the driver. What car do you choose? Photos and descriptions required. 🚗📚

Tom Petty & Bob Dylan

Today, the Orthodox Church celebrates St John Climacus of Sinai, author of the Ladder of Divine Ascent. An ascetic book traditionally read in the refectory in monasteries during Lent.

Homicides are plummeting.

In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.

If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>

Er, you could always build more homes.

You never know where you’ll find it.

Big personal news:

I’ve been chipping away at a big book project and finally have landed a deal! It’s a history of the book as an information technology.

Here’s the announcement from Publisher’s Marketplace. Backstory in tomorrow’s newsletter 👉 MillersBookReview.com

I’m writing a book. Actually, I have been for about a decade now. But I finally landed a publisher! Here’s the backstory. millersbookreview.com/p/announcing-m…

There’s no such thing as a perfect historical marke…

This is such an incredible race.

I’m writing a book. Actually, I have been for about a decade now. But I finally landed a publisher! Here’s the backstory. millersbookreview.com/p/announcing-m…

Big personal news:

I’ve been chipping away at a big book project and finally have landed a deal! It’s a history of the book as an information technology.

Here’s the announcement from Publisher’s Marketplace. Backstory in tomorrow’s newsletter 👉 MillersBookReview.com

Today at the Arena blog Current, I review Nancy French's new memoir. Hers is a powerful story in its own right, but in parts it also reminded me of certain aspects of Beth Moore's memoir and Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory)'s story. currentpub.com/2024/04/11/nan…

'You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again.'
- Kurt Vonnegut

Satisfying photos for perfectionists - thread 🧵

1. Crescent Moon bridge by Yier Wang

I agree with every one of these recommendations. They formed my own imagination; they formed my children’s. 📚

This painting is over 100 years old.

It was made by a Swedish illustrator called John Bauer, one of the most important artists you've never heard of.

His revolutionary art influenced everything from graphic novels to animated films to video games, and here's why...

If you don't know the phrase 'iatrogenic,' you're about to find out! Abigail Shrier syas #GenZ 's mental heath issues are mostly a function of a pathological, therapeutic culture foisted on them by... #Boomers and #GenX ers. Via reason. Vid/audio/txt reason.com/podcast/2024/0…

Virtually every single time I ever write anything I spend most of the time I'm working on it feeling like it's pretty terrible and it's never going to work. Then, finally, it comes together, and I am so pleased! And then I go and start a new project and it is so terrible. . . .

“The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons.” My review of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. millersbookreview.com/p/cormac-mccar…