What I Read Last Week: Mada Photo Museum, Ode to Sommeliers, Mondavi Crush, Post-prison meals, El Chapo and Hemingway's Writing process

Construction of Large Buildings in Madagascar
An online photo museum of Madagascar.  This has some great photos of original construction of many of the buildings around town...from the 50's and 60s.

The House of Mondavi: How an American Wine Empire Was Born

An intriguing excerpt from Julia Siler's The House of Mondavi.  It reads like a soap opera and tickled my interests enough to add it to my Amazon wish list for Christmas.  

Why the sommelier watches how you attack the bread basket
An ode to the joys of of sommeliers.

You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
An inspiring look at the re-entry program headed by the Anti-Recidivism Coalition that focuses on relationships and which is led by former prisoners.

Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21

In which Hemingway says the "Racing Form" (with regard to the subject of going to the races) is the true art of fiction.

A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu—the typewriter and the reading board chest-high opposite him.

‘There's No Real Fight Against Drugs’ Discussing El Chapo’s escape with an ex-cartel operative, a Mexican intelligence official, and an American counternarcotics agent
Yikes.  The Mexican government complicit in El Chapo's escape?!! This is a movie waiting to be made.