From Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld:
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New at IWP Books: G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, 1909.
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More than 50 books published online, including works by Desmond MacCarthy, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, Bernard Berenson, Leo Stein, Willa Cather, & Logan Pearsall Smith. Moreover: Two collections of Horace translations (of Ad Pyrrham and Exegi Monumentum), and several hard-to-find translations of the odes.\n
","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/17/more-than-books.html","date_published":"2024-12-17T20:49:29+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-17 20:49","date_timestamp":1734468569,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"52306483","content_html":"From An Exaltation of Larks, or The Venereal Game (1968) by James Lipton.\n\n“Our language, one of our most precious natural resources in the English-speaking countries, is also a dwindling one that deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. 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The high, narrow bookcase in the back office, between the double doors and the wall, was filled from top to bottom with rows of solemn looking volumes bound in dark cloth, which were kept apart from the law library; an almost complete set of the Bohn classics, which Judge Pommeroy had bought long ago when he was a student at the University of Virginia. 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To share his tho... waisberg.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/07/new-willa-cather.html","date_published":"2024-12-07T20:40:53+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-07 20:40","date_timestamp":1733604053,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51436806","content_html":"Worldly\nPhilosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman;\nThe Gift of Doubt by Malcolm Gladwell.\n\n⚜\n\n\"Previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the\nignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the\nother. But your specialist cannot be brought in under eith... waisberg.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/07/worldlyphilosopher-the-odyssey.html","date_published":"2024-12-06T21:11:52+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-06 21:11","date_timestamp":1733519512,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51343851","content_html":"New at IWP Books: Willa Cather, 1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather was born on Dec. 7, 1873. It is now Friday morning of Dec. 6 in St. Ives, NSW, Australia.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/05/one-cheer-for.html","date_published":"2024-12-05T09:51:48+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-05 09:51","date_timestamp":1733392308,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51061795","content_html":"More Crabbe at IWP Books: George Crabbe, The Village (1783) and The Newspaper (1785).
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/03/more-crabbe-at.html","date_published":"2024-12-03T07:16:23+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-03 07:16","date_timestamp":1733210183,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51023544","content_html":"New at IWP Books: George Crabbe, 1781, The Library. “To think of Crabbe is to think of England.” (E. M. Forster)\n\n\"But what strange art, what magic can dispose\nThe troubled mind to change its native woes?\nOr lead us willing from ourselves, to see\nOthers more wretched, more undone than we?\nThis Books can do; — nor this alone; they give\nNew views to life, and teach us how to live;\nThey soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,\nFools they admonish, and confirm the wise:\nTheir aid they yield to all: they never shun\nThe man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone:\nUnlike the hard, the selfish, and the prou... waisberg.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/03/new-at-iwp.html","date_published":"2024-12-02T21:06:44+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-02 21:06","date_timestamp":1733173604,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50929206","content_html":"“…telling the truth to ourselves and to the world is a condition of survival, the beginning of revival, and the only moral option.” Fania Oz-Salzberger, We Have to Choose\n\n⚜\n\n“How rotten is the translation of Lang, Leaf & Myers. Surely Pope is better.” E. M. Forster (1903)\n\n⚜\n\nAnonymity: An Enquire by E. M... waisberg.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://waisberg.micro.blog/2024/12/02/telling-the-truth.html","date_published":"2024-12-01T22:07:22+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-01 22:07","date_timestamp":1733090842,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50635188","content_html":"Sing, drooping Muse, the cause of thy decline;
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\nWhy reign no more the once-triumphant Nine?
\nAlas! new charms the wavering many gain,
\nAnd rival sheets the reader’s eye detain;
\nA daily swarm, that banish every Muse,
\nCome flying forth, and mortals call them news:
\nFor these, unread, the noblest volumes lie;
\nFor these, in sheets unsoil’d, the Muses die;
\nUnbought, unblest, the virgin copies wait
\nIn vain for fame, and sink, unseen, to fate.
Books on India at IWP Books:
\n@LeoWong Searched ‘Barzun source:“Harvard Business Review”’ on Google Scholar.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/22900862","date_published":"2023-08-31T07:52:21+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-08-31 07:52","date_timestamp":1693468341,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"22869094","content_html":"@LeoWong Seems to be the only time Barzun was cited in the Harvard Business Review.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/22869094","date_published":"2023-08-30T16:08:05+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-08-30 16:08","date_timestamp":1693411685,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"20477865","content_html":"@LeoWong Fixed. Thank you.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/20477865","date_published":"2023-07-03T12:35:37+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-07-03 12:35","date_timestamp":1688387737,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"20446939","content_html":"@LeoWong Very interesting on Erskine, MVD and Dewey.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/20446939","date_published":"2023-07-02T17:13:33+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-07-02 17:13","date_timestamp":1688318013,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"18686119","content_html":"@ayjay Erwin Chargaff acknowledges her role, too, see his autobiography, Heraclitean Fire.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/18686119","date_published":"2023-04-27T09:16:28+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-04-27 09:16","date_timestamp":1682586988,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"16215599","content_html":"@ayjay Great book indeed. Israel 2023 might benefit from a translation.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/16215599","date_published":"2023-01-24T21:52:33+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-24 21:52","date_timestamp":1674597153,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"15403816","content_html":"@waisberg Apropos: The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/waisberg/15403816","date_published":"2022-12-24T16:20:33+00:00","author":{"name":"IWP Books","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F1295472.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"waisberg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-24 16:20","date_timestamp":1671898833,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"15401195","content_html":"@dancohen May be worth considering Erwin Chargaff’s “Devil’s Doctrine” when thinking about DALL.E et al.
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