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• Post #2892089

  😐 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/07/05/richest-people-in-the-world-2023-wealth/70383160007/

• Post #2892088

  #Publishing is a tough business at the best of times, and layoffs, even brutal ones, are nothing new, but this represents a staggering loss of veteran talent, institutional knowledge—and author relationships—at PRH. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/books/penguin-random-house-layoffs-buyouts.html

• Post #2892087

  OK, saw Oppenheimer. It's an excellent movie, stipulated. But it grated on me, in a work that goes to such lengths to recreate history, to hear lines that seem flatly anachronistic like "I can relate" and "I need some wiggle room." Am I the only one? #languagenerd

• Post #2892086

  Authors like me are fighting the book-ban zealots. We need help. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/mothers-liberty-book-bans-republican-ron-desantis-culture-wars-censorship/

• Post #2892085

  On the other end of the #publishing spectrum from KKR /S&S is Bluemoose Books (@Ofmooseandmen), another indie showing what taste and commitment can accomplish. ‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/06/bluemoose-kevin-duffy-publishing-hit-factory?CMP=share_btn_tw

• Post #2892084

  Surprise, surprise: new WSJ article shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed #climatechange and tried to undercut science that showed how fossil fuels contributed to our ongoing catastrophe—even while its CEOs like Rex Tillerson struck public poses of climate concern. WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af?reflink=integratedwebview_share

• Post #2892083

  When it comes to crossover events, this one is out there: Prada to design space suits for next NASA moon mission. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/07/nasa-artemis-iii-moon-mission-prada-axiom-space-spacesuit

• Post #2892082

  Farewell to Bobby Charlton, an icon of my boyhood https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/sports/soccer/bobby-charlton-dead.html