Welcome to the weekend,
This weekend, we are in Bavaria, visiting family and exploring some of our favorite small towns. We love Würzburg because it is a blend of old and new, and just the right size. My husband has family there, as well. We love staying at a particular bed and breakfast in a small town just outside of the city, though, which happens to be my husband’s ancestral home – his family has been there since the 1300s!
It’s sure to be a weekend of historical research and new sights. Likewise, here are the best — reads from around the Internet this week:
Elvis, Egyptian gods, blues music; music historian Ted Gioia takes us on a wild ride through the ancient art of impersonating musicians. His Substack has quickly become one of my favorites, because it is always surprising, well-researched, and enjoyable.
Who was actually doing all that “quiet quitting“?
“Reading is a technology that works. And it works in part by immersing the reader in the text itself. The lack of video / music / pop-up ads / crypto tokens / mini-games aren’t a problem to be solve. The lack of those thing is the feature. Books are engaging precisely because they lack those things.” A smart piece on the “disruption of the book,” which never seems to come around.
On the importance of both the life and the work.
Finally, Austin Kleon shares a bit about his favorite reference book, Roget’s Thesaurus. What a clever system of organizing a lexicon!
Currently reading: Wuthering Heights by Emma Brontë, again.
Have a creative weekend.
Image: Pink Roses in a Vase. Redouté, Pierre Joseph. 1838.
