I think I got off schedule over the past few weeks but it’s been a while since I did one of these, so:
The David Bowie Book Club is old news but the book of essays about Bowie’s top 100 reads doesn’t come out until later this month. If I were to join a book club it’d probably be this one.
Just stumbled across Betsy Gordon’s Psychoactive Substances Research Collection so haven’t had a chance to peruse much but the list of other repositories almost interests me more, especially the inclusion of Duke’s Parapsychology Lab’s records. Ever since I learned that J. B. Rhine did peyote with Timothy Leary I’ve been curious about the story behind that.
The Paris catacombs are now a tourist attraction but back in the 1860s even photographing them was a trial. The story of photographer Félix Nadar’s efforts to photograph them in the 1860s is almost more interesting than the photos themselves given the technical limitations of the contemporary cameras and lighting, as well as the logistics of dragging everything underground.
There’s a haunted river cruise of Jamestown Island in VA’s Historic Triangle. Could I write this off as book research?
