Archive for September, 2019

@BaseballBrit @MLBNetwork @MacmillanUSA @HarperCollins @simonschuster @penguinrandom @SimonBooks @HachetteUS @TheAthleticMLB @nytimes @GuardianTravel I’ll buy that book. Come talk about it at the annual Baseball in Literature & Culture Conference in March! @BaseballLit

September 30, 2019

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RT @RobertTalisse: Friends in middle TN: please join us on Friday (oct 4, 5p) at Middle TN State U for the Applied Philosophy Lyceum. I’ll be talking about the problem of political polarization. @MTSUNews @MTSU https://t.co/ZUTSa3KLQy

September 28, 2019

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Ann Patchett on @livefromhereapm, @christhile pronounces @ParnassusBooks1 the coolest bookstore on the planet @!@!@! https://t.co/pdstNFjRiC

September 28, 2019

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Good news: another biographical/philosophical/ autobiographical book from @JohnKaag is coming. https://t.co/NBygIFhGa6

September 28, 2019

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“The hell with fools falling for the lies of charlatans; that’s what fools do. We’re just going to keep on doing what we do: Making and consuming art. Supporting the people who remind us that we are in this together.” Michael Chabon https://t.co/YYXYSjHQ41

September 28, 2019

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@CrispinSartwell Paris Review https://t.co/cml3A3WutC

September 27, 2019

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“maybe the purpose of art, the blessing of art, has nothing to do with improvement, with amelioration, with making this heartbreaking world, this savage and dopey nation, a better place. Maybe art just makes the whole depressing thing more bearable…” What would #JohnDewey say?

September 27, 2019

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RT @NahlahAyed: “Democracy is good precisely because it creates a social order that enables us to pursue other good things in life…. We don’t have to constantly obsess about the political world.” @RobertTalisse says there is such a thing as “too much democracy.” https://t.co/Ry8UIBCNjG

September 27, 2019

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I Quit 2 Jobs in 8 Hours…If you can live frugally and don’t need a lot of “stuff,” you WIN. You’re in the Epicurean Garden. “For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was happiness.” Jennifer Michael Hecht https://t.co/L0sRyg0x7q

September 27, 2019

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I’ve just posted on my Blog about: Garden wisdom https://t.co/GKGWpJn4vz

September 26, 2019

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