Rabbit, Run, a novel by John Updike was published in 1960.  The novel’s hero is Harry (“Rabbit”) Angstrom, a 26-year-old former high-school athletic star who is disillusioned with his present life and flees from his wife and child in a futile search for grace and order.  Three sequels—Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)—continue the story of Rabbit in the succeeding decades of his life.  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rabbit-Run   

The John Updike Childhood Home is a museum owned by The John Updike Society, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation organized for educational purposes with members in 18 countries and 37 states.  The house is located at 117 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington, Pa., where author John Updike lived from “age zero” to 13, after which John and his parents moved to a farmhouse in Plowville that had been in his mother’s family.  Updike treasured the house on Philadelphia Avenue because it was where his “artistic eggs were hatched.”  He visited Shillington often during his writing career, and went through the house as an adult at least twice.  The house museum features 10 areas of exhibits that tell the story of Updike and his time in Berks County.  Learn more about The John Updike Society.  Membership is open to anyone with an interest in Updike, and benefits include free admission to the museum and any issues of The John Updike Review that are published during the calendar year.  Like other author houses in heavily residential areas, The John Updike Childhood Home has limited hours of operation.  The museum is open on Saturdays from 12-2 p.m., except for major holidays.  Admission is $10/person for age 16 and older.  Group rate is $7/person (10 or more)  Group tours need to be arranged in advance and are dependent upon docent availablility.  Click here for more information on group visits and special rates for schools.  https://johnupdikechildhoodhome.com/about/    

Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper (folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet.  In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages--front and back.  In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in half, producing two leaves and four pages for each sheet.  For example, the outer sheet in a 16-page book will have one leaf with pages 1 (recto) and 2 (verso), and another leaf with pages 15 (recto) and 16 (verso).  Pages 1 and 16, for example, are printed on the same side of the physical sheet of paper, combining recto and verso sides of different leaves.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso   

September 28, 2023  Amsterdam’s Van Gogh museum is working together with the makers of popular adventure card game Pokémon as part of the celebrations of the museum’s 50th anniversary.  The alliance includes a special Pokémon hunt through the gallery in both Dutch and English, lessons in how to draw Pikachu, Van Gogh-inspired Pokémon paintings, and a promo card that fans can add to their collection.  Vincent’s work and Pokémon are both closely linked with Japanese art and culture, the museum said, and Japanese prints were a great influence on his work and view of the world.  https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/van-gogh-celebrates-50th-year-with-pokemon-gotta-catch-em-all/ 

27 September 2023  People come across as being more trustworthy and competent on Zoom calls if they have plants or books in the background.  “With videoconferencing, most of what everyone else sees–the majority of your screen–is taken up with your background,” says Paddy Ross at Durham University in the UK.  “So you no longer have to just worry about how you look and how you’re presenting yourself to other people, but also what you have all around you.”  Ross and his colleagues collected 72 photos of 36 white adults, made up of 18 men and 18 women who were either smiling or had a neutral expression, taken from a human faces photo database for researchers.  Next, the researchers asked 167 people to rank how trustworthy and competent they thought the people in the 72 images were, on a scale of 1 to 7.  The most favourable first impressions were given to the people in front of the bookcase or plants.  But regardless of whether the caller was a man or a woman, smiling evoked more competence and trustworthiness than having a neutral expression.  This is probably because smiling suggests self-confidence, says Ross.  Christa Lesté-Lasserre  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394538-having-books-in-your-zoom-background-makes-you-seem-more-trustworthy/   

kinesics (uncountable) (linguistics)  noun

The study of non-verbal communication by means of gestures and/or other body movements.  [from 1952] quotations ▼

Such non-verbal communication.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kinesics#English  The American anthropologist Ray L. Birdwhistell, who coined kinesics, was born on September 29, 1918. 

 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2725  September 29, 2023