Doing my best to find entertaining weekend reading to help you take your mind off pressing concerns. Forgive the brevity of this week's post. Interesting stories were harder to come by for some reason. Could be because certain topics are dominating the news these days.
The pictures tell the story: a beautiful bookstore filled with optical illusions.
Talk about finding a bargain: original Salvador Dali artwork found in an Outer Banks thrift store.
Miles Wolff, the man who led the resurgence of Minor League Baseball in the 1980s, is calling it a career.
Speaking of baseball, it might surprise you to know that all Major League Baseballs are stitched together by hand. Given the controversy in recent years over the construction of the baseball it's reasonable to assume that MLB would want a uniform baseball. Here's why that's not going to happen.
Double Indemnity is without a doubt one of the best movies to come out the noir era in Hollywood. The story is fairly straightforward: an insurance salesman (played by Fred MacMurray) falls for a femme fatale (Barbara Stanwyck) and engages in an illicit affair. She convinces him to help her murder her husband so she can collect the insurance money. But not only is this film about a crime gone wrong it's ultimately a story of redemption.
James M. Cain's novel Double Indemnity, which was the basis of the film, made a list of perfect murders in literature assembled by Peter Swanson as part of his new novel. And yes, this book immediately went on my To Be Read list.
Ever wonder why books come out in hardback before paperback?
I've never read any Dean Koonz novels but I am far more likely to after reading this interview. It's intriguing to me to hear about his writing process, the publishing industry, and why he doesn't spend any time online (among other subjects).
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