“Hello World”\u00a0used to be the first post of blog beginnings. Hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since I made a post. At one time I was a very active blogger. I posted almost every day to each of five or six sites. That’s not coming back, but I do think it is time to get back to blogging at least now and then. So hello again, world.<\/p>\n
My\u00a0River of Ink” Literature, History, Art<\/em> has gone to the printer. Official pub date is December. A couple of blurbs came in.<\/p>\n \u201cTruffle-rich, cumin-exotic, from Mutanabbi Street to C\u00e9line’s ballets, Gutenberg and the Koreans, a winged sphinx and an iron man and Nur Jahan \u2014 oh, and a beturbaned Sadakichi Hartmann \u2014 these world-trotting essays make one groovy box of idea-chocolates.\u201d \u201cA world tour of cultural histories, a tour de force of eclectic scholarship, a relief map of the journeys of a restless intellect, Thomas Christensen’s River of Ink flows from ancient China to the current Americas with myriad revelations along the way. Christensen is a genial guide to little-known wonders with a wealth of information and a light touch.” Thank you, Catherine and Stephen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Hello World”\u00a0used to be the first post of blog beginnings. Hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since I made a post. At one time I was…<\/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":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417"}],"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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2014C.M. Mayo, author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014Stephen Kessler, author of The Tolstoy of the Zulus<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n