Caroline Gordon, on books and reading:

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

– Caroline Gordon.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET (2022):

The album Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET, 

by Renée Fleming, 

was released on November 16, 2022.

On this day in music history - Songs from the Red Room, by Shakespears Sister (2009):

The album Songs from the Red Room,

by Shakespears Sister,

was released on November 16, 2009.

On this day in music history - Second Wind, by Lorrie Sarafin (2005):

The album Second Wind,

by Lorrie Sarafin,

was released on November 16, 2005.

On this day in music history - Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas, by Heart (2004):

The album Heart Presents a Lovemongers' Christmas,

by Heart,

was released on November 16, 2004.

On this day in music history - Desire Walks On, by Heart (1993):

The album Desire Walks On,

by Heart,

was released on November 16, 1993.

On this day in movie history - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977):

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

directed and written by Steven Spielberg,

was released in the United States on November 16, 1977.
Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds, Cary Guffey, Shawn Bishop, Adrienne Campbell, Justin Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen, Merrill Connally, George DiCenzo, Amy Douglass, Alexander Lockwood, Gene Dynarski, Mary Gafrey, Norman Bartold, Josef Sommer, Michael J. Dyer, Roger Ernest, Carl Weathers, F.J. O'Neil, Phil Dodds, Randy Mark Herman, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, David Anderson, Richard L. Hawkins, Craig Shreeve, Bill Thurman, Roy E. Richards, Gene Rader, Eumenio Blanco, Daniel Nunez, Chuy Franco, Luis Contreras, James Keane, Dennis McMullen, Cy Young, Tom Howard, Richard Stuart, Bob Westmoreland, Matt Emery, Galen Thompson, John Dennis Johnston, John Ewing, Keith Atkinson, Robert Broyles, Kirk Raymond, Bennett Wayne Dean Sr., Danyi Deats, Jenny Inge Devaney. Basil Hoffman, J. Allen Hynek, Monty Jordan, Shay McLean, Dejah Moore, Carl Neal, Monty O'Grady, Julia Phillips, Murray Pollack, Stephen Powers, David Rambow, Howard K. Smith.