Tuesday, October 13th. It’s Ada Lovelace Day, a woman ahead of her time.
There were 765 cases reported in Massachusetts yesterday. The numbers are starting to climb. Let’s hope they even out.
It’s easy to laugh at us Bostonians. But we’re laughing too. There’s just enough truth in these bits to make them uncomfortably funny.
Bellow, Updike, Roth. All gone. But Don DeLillo, at 83, is still writing great American novels. His latest book, The Silence, will be available later this month. It may be his last. He talked to David Marchese (on a landline.) It’s a great interview: “Do you read any websites? No, I don’t. My wife has a computer, but no, I don’t have any interest in that.” Amazing. Love that throwback attitude.
Farmers are not doing as well as they were four years ago. Trump trade wars and embargoes have put them on their heels. But some shamelessly well placed subsidies ahead of the election just might help to ease the pain.
And there’s an Apple event later today, mostly focused on new iPhones. But you never know. Dan Moren tells us what we can expect.