Library & Information Science Ranked Worst Master’s Degree for Jobs [via GalleyCat and Forbes]
Bookstore
Nerman’s Books and Collectibles in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [via Winnipeg Sun]
Reading Event
NYC: Word for Word Poetry- Emily Dickinson [via Reading Room in Bryant Park]
Movies
Life of Pi trailer [via HuffPost Books]
Tweet of the Day
Free fiction from Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winning author of “Salvage the Bones” j.mp/M28njQ
— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) June 19, 2012
Birthday
Salman Rushdie (1947) … “Joseph Heller said that once in a while he would find a sentence that contained a hundred more sentences. That happened to him when he started Catch-22, the moment he wrote the sentence about Yossarian falling in love with the chaplain. That sentence told him where the rest of the novel was going. That happened to me when I wrote the beginning of Midnight’s Children and Haroun. I had that lightbulb moment.” [interview via The Paris Review]
Remembering
William Golding (1993) … Golding won The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983, “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.”
