Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
A sneak peek into an amazing typewriter collection, including machines used by Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, and Shirley Temple. The collector’s only rule? – The owner must have appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine. More details here.
Remarkably, the death of privacy was not inflicted by government directives, computers, nor the Internet, but from the private sector, all too willingly, way back in the 1960s.
A story of rebuilding a city, cultures clashing, gobs of money, and dozens of enemies, this is a look into one of Berlin’s most perplexing unsolved murders, “The Killing of a Berlin Power Broker“.
I love this idea from poet Sharon Old’s archives. The idea of taking notes in one state of mind, then coming back to index and sift through them in another state of mind fascinates me because of the ability to make connections in different ways, as your mindset changes.
A simple, elegant approach to reading – the bookend approach – from literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf; starting and ending the day with books. (via Austin Kleon.)
Currently reading: Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner
Photo by Jessica Mangano on Unsplash
