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Do you remember your first favorite book?
My first real favorite: the fairy-tale The Golden Ball.
Today I looked up the author and discovered he’s still alive: a scholar, professor, and author of academic works on totalitarianism, information policy, and hybrid wars. I may never read those. But I will absolutely reread the first book I ever loved.
There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children.
Today is Jack Kerouac birthday.
Before he became the voice of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a promising college football player. A broken leg ended his sports career — but the long recovery gave him time to read obsessively and begin writing the stories that would change American literature.
He later wrote On the Road in a burst of energy that became legendary: typing day and night on a single 120-foot scroll of paper.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
— Omar Khayyam