herman melville – Drinking Club With A Reading Problem

Sundays aren’t normally happy hour days (they’re more like drinking-in-dread-as-Monday-approaches kind of days). But after guarding box lunches for middle age vegetarians at a work event this weekend, I’m feeling pretty ecstatic knowing I don’t have to step into my office tomorrow.

Here’s what you missed this week:

Looking for another book club to follow? Gasp. We forgive you. May we suggest you let the stars decide? (Entertainment Weekly)
Here’s the question every literary scholar or critic should be asking: “instead of writing an epic on whaling, could Melville have written the epic of bowling instead?” (New York Review of Books)
Just in time for Halloween: the creepiest author photos in existence. Shel Silverstein will wreck you. (LitHub)
In important news this week: Sexiest Man Alive Idris Elba is sponsoring a new podcast focused on books, writers, and conversations for people of color. (The Bookseller)
Do you think we can use this blog as cash? (LA Times)

Cheers,

The Club is drinking with Ryan Merriman (of Luck of The Irish DCOM fame) tonight. Jealous? We thought you might be. So here’s something that’s (almost) as good: a week’s worth of weird reads. Pour yourself a drink and enjoy.

Tom Gauld’s literary cartoon strips in The Guardian are oh-so-delightful and British. I recommend the book’s journey off the shelf and Jane Austen’s choose-your-own-adventure.
Get a lesson in self-promotion from, who else, Herman Melville. I now must place my reviews in all the local circulars.
We feel like Britney after Oxford released their word of the year.
Now here’s a sport I can handle: book sorting. Yes, you read that right.
There is a forest in Norway being cultivated to publish books that won’t be read until 2114. Time to fire up the DeLorean.

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