... James Joyce in Judapest . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... photos from Bucharest .

... it's time for the Petronarati . (Maxine has discerned the Miniver Cheevy in me!)

... a favorite: Recommend a book in which nothing happens. (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.) I seem to recall that Robbe-Grillet's novels are ...

... fortunately, she doesn't read my blog. Shameless tells of his forthcoming vacation: The Holidays . Sounds wonderful. Debbie and I wi...

... this seems a perennial event: Summer books too hot? I agree with Kevin, that "parents and schools have the right - actually the du...

Bud Parr tells you where you to look for them: Find Independent Bookstores at Bookwormz.com . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke, who has got her strok...

... but here it is anyway, a piece in this morning's WSJ about Poet Laureate-designate Donald Hall: On Eagle Pond Farm . (I subscribe to...

... pays up: Three's a Charm . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.) One the posts, as Bill Peschel notes, offers an excellent summary of what Afric...

Carlin Romano remembers Richard Hofstadter . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... that I agree with Peter Singer, but I agree with him on this: The Freedom to Ridicule Religion-and Deny the Holocaust . I just think the...

... but don't forget BAFAB's FIRST ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

... who is heading to ThrillerFest: By the time you read this .

... Honors for Mickey Spillane .

... Museum Pieces .

... she's had a bit of a week herself: Check out her Flood pictures and stories . Hope all is well, Bonnie.

... Polluting The Blogosphere . (Hat tip, Bonnie Calhoun.)

... a lot of people ought to be able to identify with: River

... C.E. Chaffin is back - and has been for a bit. Lots of interesting stuff there.

... an Interesting lecture by Katherine Barber .

... Guess who isn't coming to dinner? I suppose I should vote for John Banville, because I did have dinner with him recently and he was...

... on Debi Alper's reading . Sounds very pleasant indeed.

John Vick has some new audio: Andrew Demcack at The Adroitly Placed Word .

... Mark Twain: Sold down the river . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke. Welcome back, Maxine!)

... A scientific approach to atheism . It's about time.

... to anyone who lived during the '60s: It's often too easy to exploit our willingness to believe . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) But this ...

... the Oregon Literary Review . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... that our dear friend Maxine was only inconvenienced by this: Off kilter .

... the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is set to shoot: Dark Materials film gets green light.

... has posted its shortlist: Ut pictura poesis . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... in 1798, one of Italy's greatest poets, Giacomo Leopardi , was born. Here is link to The Canti .

A couple of weeks ago I led a workshop at the West Chester University Poetry Conference. The was reviewing poetry. I brought several books f...

... Critcal Mass is there to help: The NBCC's Tips for Successful Book Reviewing.

... the inaugural issue of The Picolata Review .

Not much, when it comes to sales. But they do have their uses: The art of the irrelevant . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Leonard Cohen, funnyman . (Hat tip, Vikram Johri.)

Glenn Reynolds today linked to a piece he wrote a couple of years ago that I am largely in agreement with: Loose definitions . People forge...

Nick Brooks' top ten literary murderers (Hat tip, Vikram Johri, who also sends along this item: Harper Lee breaks her silence in letter ...

... over at About Last Night best to just visit and keep scrolling. One thing I found especially interesting: Terry and I both live in larg...

... in 1867, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello was born. "A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make i...

... The Inquirer ceased being owned by Knight-Ridder. This is good. Knight-Ridder was the corporate equivalent of the Soviet Union - complet...

... full-time educators and students: Free O'Hara books .

Amy Nelson-Mile links to an Online Exhibition Of Historical French Literature .

Helen Simpson considers the incomparable Angela Carter: Femme fatale .

At CultureVulture: A place on the mythical map .

... are more graphic than others, apparently. See Bill Peschel's Girls On Paper .

... on Blogspot: Eric Hoffer Quotes . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Also check out the Eric Hoffer Resource . Dave also sends a link to Patrick Kur...

... some Good Friends .

Queen costs each taxpayer 62p a year . Mencken once noted that President Harding cost him about 50 cents a year. "Can you think of bett...

... Friedrich Nietzsche's diet book: Thus Ate Zarathustra .

... my review for Sunday. It is probably too long and I am, as is usual upon finishing a review , not in the best of moods. So I'm calli...

... both as writer and person - A.S. Byatt - talks about her art: A.S. Byatt and story-telling .

Dave Lull sends along a link to Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: Web Usability .

Matthew Cheney has A Conversation with Tina Pohlman , editorial director of Harvest Books (the paperback imprint of Harcourt ).

... about Frank O'Hara and Vladimir Mayakovsky: More stuff on Frank .

Stefanie Hollmichel is readying the Proust group blog. Read about it toward the end of The First Time. (Had I but world enough and time ...)

... Vangisa, the Venerable Master of Words . And so is this: Therigatha: Verses of the Elder Nuns . And the next time you think about immi...

Try Reading Challenges . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... Mr. and Mrs Hawthorne: American literary couple reunited after 150 years . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) As a big Hawthorne fan, I am naturall...

The Wall Street Journal looks at LibraryThing: Social Networking for Bookworms . (Hat tip, Gwen Hendry.)

... nearing the end of the trail: Chronicle of a death foretold ... Harry Potter author's grim hints . (Hat tip, Vikram Johri.)

... by Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Stays Dutch .

I called Glenn Reynolds's An Army of Davids "a must-read if you want to have some idea of the direction things are taking." T...

... it seems McDonalds makes its own peculiar contribution to the spirit of place: Slumming the Golden Arches .

... or so the saying goes. This must explain why Dave Lull, Patrick Kurp and I are fans of Eric Hoffer: Thinking Man . (I like Patrick's...

... Lyle Stuart has died at 83. (Hat tip, Bonnie Calhoun.)

The great-great-great nephew of the poet Wordsworth - and a noted scholar of his work - has died. Here is the Telegraph 's obit.

... of George Hook until I read this post, which I found very moving: George Hook Made Me Cry Today . I certainly know what it is to cry whi...

... for myself, of course, but even more for Dan Hoffman: Audacious . (Thanks to Dave Lull for sending it along.)

.. for John Updike's Terrorist . The thumbs are James Wood's. Mark Sarvas quotes and links: Wood on Terrorist . For quite a differen...

... Shameless painting: Beneath .

... hits Carl Bryant: Poetry in the Bathroom . (I wonder, though, does "Yankee ingenuity" apply in Georgia?)

... about regional theater (note there is a free link there to his WSJ piece). Check out his Almanac , too.

Bavarian hunters kill Bruno the bear I believe he had said he would never be taken alive.

... here is Carlin Romano's review of Elaine Feinstein's Anna of All the Russias : A poet who gave voice to Russia's suffering ....

... by Royalist Geoffrey Chaucer, the Founding Fathers have started blogging: Founder Blogs.com . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... it's already here: Nightcap syndication .

John Cleese is retiring to teach and write a history of comedy .

... JK Rowling says she is feeling sad that her days penning the Harry Potter books are almost over .

... some people, especially book publishers: Favorite books among evangelicals . (These are the same people that book after book that comes ...

... The Inquirer will change ownership, this piece seems appropriate: How the back page took over the front page . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... at Critical Mass: John Freeman's Sunday Round Up and Jane Ciabattari's for Saturday Roundup . Useful to compare Luc Sante's...

Brenda Coulter discovers A big, bad word.

Patrick Kurp mentions David in this excellent post about Philip Larkin: `A Serious House on Serious Earth' . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This...

Carl Bryant has been pondering the problem of having a Poet Laureate. He has just declared the Problem Solved .

Or Robert Herrick (a special favorite of mine)? Amy Nelson-Mile links to a Resource for 17th Century English Literature . (Hat tip, Maxine C...

... of Junto is up.

... who's had a rough week, what with spam and hostile emails and - yes! - being struck by a unicyclist: The Inner Minx

... Bean Week .

Geoffrey Chaucer chats with a young lady named Parys who is "the daughter of an riche stewarde and hosteler." Sound familiar? She...

... for creative writing MFAs, called - not surprisingly - the MFA Weblog . (Hat tip, B.Tsao.)

Bill Lengeman takes note of some Scams & Hoaxes .

... is David Yezzi , interviewed by Ernest Hilbert for The Cortland Review, whic also provides a sampler of his work. (Hat tip again to Dav...

... maybe they have no future, though John Updike thinks news of their passing may be premature: The End of Authorship . (Hat tip, Dave Lull...

Gaiutra Bahadur likes Monica Ali's Alentejo Blue : Silence speaks volumes in a Portuguese village David Cohen finds Anthony Arthur's...

... has moved. Here's the new address .

... about blogs by Alan Jacobs: The friend of information but the enemy of thought . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think this makes a number of ve...

... until later on. Debbie and I have to attend a funeral.

... for Locus Online's poll for the best SF/fantasy/horror poems of 2005 and of all-time . (Hat tip, Laurie Mason.) I am surprised that ...

The New York Review of Books does a Beckett roundup: Beckett: Still Stirring . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)