Category Archives: publishing
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Books, Bells, and Morals
Leave a commentSeptember 3, 2020 by libroshombre
It’s fascinating how the human mind skips around, sometimes fruitfully, like recent consideration of a naked pig-chasing man leading …
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Murders, Measuers, and MSG
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2020 by libroshombre
Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
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Gilgamesh, Co-op Fees, and Comfy Libraries
Leave a commentNovember 19, 2019 by libroshombre
Ancient epic literature appeals most when it reveals how people long ago lived their daily lives and how they thought. …
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Publishers, Malarkey, and Project Gutenberg
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2017 by libroshombre
“Malarky!” was one of my father’s favorite epithets for things he deemed phony or exaggerated. I heard it all …
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Essays, Agnotology, and Ignorance
Leave a commentFebruary 8, 2016 by libroshombre
I’ve been thinking about Michel Montaigne, the 16th century writer, wine grower, and counselor to kings, even more than …
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