Monday, November 18, 2024

Dirda on billionaires

Feeling despondent? So am I. Then I remembered, books can help.

I know I can always escape into novels by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick O'Brian and find strength in biographies of past leaders. What will you choose?

November 14, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/14/books-election-coping-essay/

"Given four years to deal with, this might well be the time to finally read Dante's "Divine Comedy," Montaigne's "Essays," Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," William Faulkner's entire Yoknapatawpha saga, or every Fantagraphics album collecting Carl Barks and Don Rosa's comics about Scrooge McDuck, the only billionaire many of us have ever really liked."

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