Ha! #books #bookstagram #shelfie

If you’ve got the day off today, why not check out a museum? Here is a list of some cultural institutions open for the holiday.

Photo: Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times

Not very tolerant of right turns.

Jonathan Tropper is reading from 'This Is Where I Leave You' at BookCon #bea14 before we see footage. Tropper's novel was featured on #bea Buzz Panel in 2009.

And then this happened...Yes, it did. New love, Charlie of the band Train.

And then we saw him. Handsome boyo. @ZuluNyala

Still time to catch @menageriebwy before it closes and is just a 'memory' #TheGlassMenagerie on Broadway.

Ted loved listening to the radio     

 An exclusive excerpt of Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  Growing up, on Saturday afternoons during football season, Ted [Williams] liked to get home in time to listen to the USC games on radio. He loved Irvine “Cotton” Warburton, a San Diego boy who was the team’s All America quarterback in 1933. “On Saturday night we’d listen to Benny Goodman,” Ted recalled. “Swing bands were the thing then. I still prefer swing to anything else.” His favorite radio program was “Gang Busters,” which, in collaboration with J. Edgar Hoover, dramatized closed FBI cases. Originally launched in 1935 and called “G-men,” the show featured dramatic sound effects of screeching tires, police sirens and tommy-guns.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams passing a football at the Navy Pre-Flight School, 1943. North Carolina Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library.)

What are the ladies of Litchfield reading? Thanks to the Tumblr Books of Orange Is The New Black , we can keep up with all their literary predilections. [Very mild spoilers]

wonderful article...

All Of The Books Referenced On Season 2 Of "Orange Is The New Black"

At first I was going to snark about the Buffalo NY Walk of Fame that started in downtown and then I saw some of the names. #MichaelBennett #ChristineBaranski #ARGurney

Seeing this always brings peace of mind, no? #BritishAirways

The New York Times Sunday Book Review

The Splendid Splinter

‘The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,’ by Ben Bradlee Jr.

Charles McGrath in the New York Times Sunday Book Review calls “The Kid” “a hard-to-put-down account of a fascinating American life.” More from The Times: “The people at the Alcor cryonics facility, in Scottsdale, Ariz., would have us believe that Ted Williams really is immortal. They have his body there, the head severed from the rest, flash-frozen in a giant thermos-like tank and awaiting only the scientific advancement that will allow him to be thawed, resuscitated and rejuvenated.”