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Salman Rushdie: 'Literature Is Powerful, Writers Are Fragile'

"If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."

Reason

Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea

It's time for the US Library of Congress to buy the Internet Archive before the lawyers destroy our online history.

TechRadar

Celebrate 400 years of moon maps for Apollo 11's anniversary (gallery)

The Library of Congress has 400 years of moon maps from around the world. Explore the moon in centuries of maps to celebrate the first-ever human moon landing in 1969.

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What to know about Fourth of July holiday origins and traditions

The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks

The Independent UK

Notes, ponderings, doodlings: behind Capote’s creation of In Cold Blood

New manuscript offers insight into the painstaking work of writer’s seemingly effortless storytelling in true crime classic

The Guardian - US

San Diego's Lou Curtiss, a mentor to Tom Waits and other music greats, is celebrated in new film

SAN DIEGO — Tom Waits and RuPaul. Joan Baez and Mojo Nixon.

Tribune News Service

Why does hair turn gray?

Hair grays because pigment-producing cells get stuck within the hair follicle, research suggests.

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Former deputy librarian of Congress named interim CRS director - Roll Call

Robert R. Newlen, a former deputy librarian of Congress, will be the interim director of the Congressional Research Service.

Roll Call

CRS director to step down amid complaints - Roll Call

Congressional Research Service Director Mary Mazanec is stepping down effective June 30 amid persistent complaints about leadership.

Roll Call

US poet laureate dedicates ode to Europa for NASA mission to Jupiter's icy moon

US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, wrote a new poem for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa

The Hindu

A poem for Europa Clipper: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals ode to fly on NASA Jupiter moon mission

"It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..." Those words, by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode flying on NASA's Europa Clipper.

Space

Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate Ada Limón's words to Jupiter

A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth

The Independent UK

National Archives leader confirmed amid turmoil over Trump probe

There's a new leader at America's National Archives

The Independent UK

Supreme Court Justice Stevens' private papers open to public

A massive selection of papers that belonged to liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is opening to researchers at the Library of Congress

The Independent UK

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Justice Stevens's Papers Will Be Released While Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Breyer Are Still Alive

First stop for reporters: the Grutter and Gratz files.

Reason

Justice Stevens Papers Through 2005 To Be Made Available Starting Tomorrow

This should be interesting.

The Conversation

Saving broadcasting's past for the future -- archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

We’ve lived with broadcasting for more than a century. Starting with radio in the 1920s, then television in the 1950s, Americans by the millions began purchasing boxes designed to receive electromagnetic signals transmitted from nearby towers. Upon arrival, those signals were amplified and their messages were “aired” into our lives.

Miami Herald

Jimmy Buffett’s big song is in the Library of Congress? He reveals where he wrote it

MIAMI — Jimmy Buffett has been chosen for entry into the Library of Congress.

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Digital Camera World

A photographer's life: Carol Highsmith is documenting America for posterity

After spending her life on the road, Carol Highsmith has set about creating a legacy for the ages

WEKU

Daddy Yankee's 'Gasolina' is the National Recording Registry's first reggaeton song

On Wednesday, the mega-hit single became the first reggaeton song to be inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The US government just awarded Super Mario Bros. a significant honor

The Super Mario Bros. theme is the first video game song inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry

Fortune

Library of Congress will add Super Mario Bros. theme to the National Recording Registry

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PC Gamer

I am beyond outraged that the Super Mario Bros. theme is the first piece of videogame music inducted into the Library of Congress

Dragon's Dogma snubbed again.

GamesRadar

Super Mario theme becomes first piece of game music inducted into Library of Congress

It's taken nearly 30 years for the track to make it

Los Angeles Times

What do Mario and Queen Latifah have in common? They just made it into US history

Queen Latifah, Super Mario, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Daddy Yankee and mariachi music are the latest additions to the U.S. National Recording Registry, which means a selection of their recordings have been dubbed "audio treasures worthy of preservation" by the Library of Congress.

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