WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Wall Street Journal featured a photo of shoppers in the Bradford Walmart on Thursday, Aug. 13. That photo ran on page A-2, along with a story titled “Consumer Prices Rose Again Last Month.” The photo itself had a cutline explaining the photo was taken in July. In the photo, two women travel along the fresh produce aisle that borders the bakery section at the front of the store.
Visit https://www.wsj.com/news/economy and look for “July Consumer Prices Rise Amid Increased Demand for Range of Goods, Services” to see the photo for yourself.
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CELEBRATING RAY BRADBURY: To mark what would have been author Ray Bradbury’s 100th birthday on Aug. 22, the Library of Congress, the Los Angeles Public Library and libraries from across the nation have banded together for a virtual “read-a-thon” dedicated to Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Actors William Shatner and Rachel Bloom, authors Susan Orlean, Marlon James and Neil Gaiman and dozens more will each introduce or read a portion of the landmark 1953 novel.
“Those segments, and a few from celebrity guests, will be edited into one continuous reading of the entire book, creating four hours of thought-provoking entertainment. Some readers will record from their homes, others from their hometown,” organizers of the Read-a-Thon said in a statement.
The event will premiere on Aug. 22 at 4:30 p.m. EST at http://raybradburyreadathon.com/, and the four-hour stream will rebroadcast there until Sept. 5.
Fahrenheit 451, a novel warning against censorship of thought and knowledge in the form of book burning, was chosen in part because of Bradbury’s own dedication to libraries.
“I’m completely library-educated. Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life,” Bradbury once said. “Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of 18 on, and graduated from the library when I was 28.”
