Happy June, Core folk! Our hope for this month is that the sun will finally emerge (but not too much).
- Turns out Montaigne was an early promoter of bibliotherapy (as well as the unreliability of relationships with other people). An insight: Human beings will abandon you, but books will never leave.
- Candide, An American Dream is writer-director Ken Finkleman’s modern-day take on Voltaire’s work. The film runs from June 2-4 at the Royal Cinema in Toronto, Ontario.
- Speaking of updates, Jeff James and James Yeatsman bring Jane Austen’s Persuasion to the stage in a production that features a playlist with songs by Nicki Minaj, among others, as well as bikinis, a dance floor, and a distinct lack of crinoline. It runs until June 24th at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, England.
Anne (Lara Rossi, right) and Antony Bunsee. (Photograph: Johan Persson)
- Walt Whitman celebrated his 198th birthday last Wednesday, May 31. Quiet his restless spirit by reading some fun facts over on Biography.com.
- In his recently published work Goethe: Life as a Work of Art, translated by David Dollenmayer, Rdiger Safranski claims that the polymath calculated his experiences so that each one would lead to personal growth. (We usually calculate our experiences for maximum free-food consumption.)
“Goethe: Life as a Work of Art,” by Rdiger Safranski and David Dollenmayer (Liveright)
Well, that should do it. Until next week, scholars!
