{"id":4132,"date":"2012-05-11T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2013-06-22T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:59:24","slug":"friday-roundup-links-for-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/links\/friday-roundup-links-for-may-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Links for May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every separation is a link.&#8221; &#8212; Simone Weil<\/p>\n<p>Lots of questions today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/innovation\/articles\/20120511\/07120618881\/bookstores-can-still-compete-combining-traditional-strengths-with-smart-innovations.shtml\">Can bookstores compete by combining traditional strengths with innovations<\/a>?\u00a0: Is the answer really as easy as Espresso Book Machines?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/researchnews.osu.edu\/archive\/exptaking.htm\">Does reading fiction make you more empathetic?<\/a>\u00a0: An Ohio State study finds readers can be more sympathetic to others who are different from themselves<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/05\/bulk-of-all-human-utterances-is.html\">Is most human discourse plagiarism?<\/a>\u00a0: Let&#8217;s ask Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/09\/maurice-sendak-unreleased-drawings\/\">What would happen if Maurice Sendak collaborated with Tony Kushner?<\/a>\u00a0: Might some prints remain to be published?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/jorge_luis_borges_1967-8_norton_lectures_on_poetry_and_everything_else_literary.html\">What did Jorge Luis Borges sound like when he lectured?<\/a>\u00a0: This fellow had a lot to say<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/business\/Publishers+read+industry+future\/6608205\/story.html\">What is the future of book publishing?<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0\u201cThe bottom line is it\u2019s a mess and everybody\u2019s worried.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duly quoted (Mother&#8217;s Day weekend edition):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother&#8217;s love is not.&#8221; \u00a0&#8212; James Joyce<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mothers are all slightly insane.&#8221; &#8212; J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0Marguerite Duras<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah.&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every separation is a link.&#8221; &#8212; Simone Weil Lots of questions today: Can bookstores compete by combining traditional strengths with innovations?\u00a0: Is the answer really as easy as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}