Winding Up the Week #470

An end of week recap “Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It’s only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that’s it, it’s going to be like this forever, they change again.” – Meg Mason Sorrow and Bliss Today is National Biographers Day – when we remember the 16th May 1763 meeting of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell in London – while also raising our glasses for World Whisky Day and National Mimosa Day. Then, on Sunday, we can all abstemiously celebrate the final day of National Stationery Week. Among today’s literary‑types’ births are German poet and translator Friedrich Rückert (1788), Russian poet and literary critic – who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian émigré litterateurs – Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), English novelist and short‑story writer H. E. Bates (1905), German‑born American writer Margret Rey (1906), influential American poet, essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich (1929) and American novelist,…