Links

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/escher-bach-rachel-carson/ - Around a year ago I read a book about Escher after years of thinking “should I read about Escher?” Is that corny? It wasn’t a great book, but it was a satisfying and stimulating and interesting. I wish I had been taught math using stuff like Escher and taught art with more emphasis on the math. I took a lot of notes, in my “Book Notes” notebooks, and hope to get around to posting them sometime.

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/academic-publishing-and-the-death - White jazz expert writes a post about academic publishing, takes a long way around, etc., but I wanted to link to it to say as a fellow author I noticed how he brought up his own book in passing and was even like “look how affordable it is!”

https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/snakes-of-iceland “Perhaps the whole episode suggests some thing ineffably English. You can decide that.” This got me to order Glossary of Greek Fishes interlibrary.