Not incidentally, this is also the feast day of the Bible translating Saint Jerome.

I want to recognize Lemuria Books, the best thing about Jackson, Mississippi (narrowly edging ahead of some of the blues clubs), which, at least when I lived in town, had a section entirely of literature in translation.

So pick up book in translation today. Something good. Don’t just re-read one of those Swedish mysteries. A classic. Or the Bible. But just the good one, the King James Version. Or poetry. Something that will impress your friends and neighbors and make your bookshelf look smarter.