Florida judge removed from bench for moonlighting as self-publisher
There are a number of ways to get in trouble when you’re a Florida judge. Driving (and judging) while intoxicated. Grievous conflict of interest. Fisticuffs with a public defender in… Read more »
Walker Evans’s photos and 170K more digitized by the Yale Project
This is huge: the biggest photo collection in American history is now fully searchable and available as an interactive map through Photogrammar, a digital project from Yale University. Aside from… Read more »
Spanish dictionary adds words useful for action flicks, also some other words
The Real Academia Española is the institution responsible for determining what is and isn’t acceptable in Spanish, and as such, one of its duties is updating the official dictionary. This… Read more »
This week in 1913: Rilke thinks about his lovers, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is coined, and Hitler paints a picture
1913 is now available in paperback. Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt… Read more »
J.K. Rowling resurrects Harry Potter villain for Halloween
J.K. Rowling, creator of Rubeus Hagrid’s beard, made good on her promise last week to release even more new Harry Potter material on fan content site Pottermore by Halloween. Like… Read more »
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