Benches outside a library in Bulgaria

This is brilliant. ♥️ 🎶🎻

A very exciting book day in my household – on the same day I received my copy of @ZekeEmanuel's new book (which I'm psyched to read), a pre-pub copy of my new book showed up as well. Mine will be publicly available on Feb 3, but available for pre-order now.

Austin Weatherford -

Critical Bay Area habitat gains permanent protection https://t.co/w2Zo0uAmEs via @SFGate

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

The Sydney Opera House illuminated with Gustav Klimt's The Tree of Life.

Critical thinking problem solver 😂 https://t.co/KF3i8gfspd

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use

Letter to Young Journalists, by David Weir -

https://t.co/A3TjjH1ZCM

We’re excited to welcome Marshelle Wilburn as executive director of Children Rising. Read her message to our community 👉 https://t.co/j86qKPisWZ

George Csicsery of @ZalaFilms has been honored by the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers with a 2025 Buzzies award for diversity leadership for Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Creating Pathways #factualstorytelling #jbmfilm https://t.co/9PW7NawvjG

David Weir writes on Substack:

Best teacher ever https://t.co/hdHBuIOAd1

Joan Miró The Lovers' Lament (1953) Oil on canvas (46 x 38cm) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a book and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner. Here are seven novels Atlantic staffers wish they’d read when they were younger. (From 2022) https://t.co/qAy4oLKoKj 🎨: Gabriela

Thrilled and honored to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from SF Press Club tonight -- and even greater to share it with my longtime friend & journalistic colleague @SovernNation. We both urged young journalists to be relentless in seeking answers on behalf of the public.

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.