... The Mental Illness Myth .

... Kevin Holtsberry explains in his Link roundup . Actually, I just read The Thirteenth Tale over the weekend and plan to review it. It...

... the Telegraph today concludes a series it has been running about Assia Weevil, who was the poet Ted Hughes's mistress for six years....

... in 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, David Herbert Lawrence was born. Here is a rather nice site dedicated to him: His Life, His Death...

... Ian Buruma reviews Peeling the Onion : War and Remembrance .

... (I didn't) but it's Agatha Christie Week .

... but Bernard-Henri Levy's pronouncement on Günter Grass (hat tip, Dave Lull) is certainly worth quoting - and reading in full if you ...

... plan to save blogs: National Library to store blogs . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... religion and philosphy . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... of my preceding post: "The House on the Hill" for September 11th .

... borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein" "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

... there are more quizzes about types . My results? I have a linguistic intelligence, I'm 70 percent left-brained and 30 percent right-...

... the Queen's English: BBC & British Council: Illiterate Oafs (') .

... on one of my all-time favorite stories, Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": Asking the Devil for the Lowdown . ("C.S. ...

... to the discussions about science and religion: The Scientist and the Poet . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Love at first sight .

... to William Kristol's WSJ column that I think works: Anti-Judaism .

... quite some time ago. Bonnie Calhoun has had a chapter-by-chapter discussion of Donald Maass' Writing a Breakout Novel. Here's t...

... On finishing the masterpiece . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.) I agree with a lot of this. I don't think War and Peace is the greatest no...

... about writer's block? Not to worry . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... of another book review editor's world: Between the Pages in Book World . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) "Book World Editor Marie Arana a...

... is Martin Amis's no-holds-barred look at Islamism: The age of horrorism . "Here are the chief tenets ... that America, and its ...

Edward Champion weighs Haruki Murakami's new collection of stories in the balance and finds them somewhat wanting: Talented writer comes...

... "I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years I have eavesdr...

.. Rick Moody as Moody the Pig and Moody the Sociopath clearly demonstrate. I find Moody largely unreadable, but ....

... Distinctive Blogging Voices .

... is Kate Benedict's The Widest River .

... At Wright's Taliesin, maybe the walls can talk . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... but not really surprising: Michael Skube's Writing Off Reading . (Hat tip, Bonnie Calhoun.) Michael and I were Pulitzer jurors a cou...

... to the Middle Ages, but I get Roger's point: The Middle Ages - They're Bad and They're Back! I'm sorry, folks, I can...

... to The New Criterion: Twenty-Five Years of Arts and Ideas . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... David Montgomery wonders: Is this a fair blurb? Of course not, but it is far from atypical. I on ce reviewed Crazy Cock - a very early...

... over at InstaPundit - and I'm not being ironic: People who try to prey on the innocent deserve what they get. No bleeding heart I.

... my colleague David Hiltbrand braves the vacuity of television to spare us having to: Dave on Demand .

... In an email, Dr. Blogstein asks: "Can the public demand that a book gets published?" The question has to do with this post on ...

... Michael Allen on Ambition in writers . I can't say that I have lacked ambition, but very early in my life - while I was still in col...

... is Spring and all by Christine Klocek-Lim.

... touches upon Ckehhov in Dmitri, Anton, and Francine (and Bill too) . This is especially affecting: "One impression from the film th...

... Amy Nelson-Mile has a post about What Type of Writer Should You Be? Here's my results: You Should Be a Film Writer You don't jus...

... among the life-affirming: More of Moore . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... the Hyde Collection Catablog . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Imagine if the good doctor were around today to blog. Guess he's put us all to ...

... has found much to embarrass the media today. Check out DANIEL DREZNER LOOKS AT THE LATEST SALVO - and just for fun look at DRIVING A HY...

... Singer, Scruton and the Limits of Utilitarianism . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... check out Lew Jaffe's Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie .

... blogging will resume sometime later.

... Always Greener: Günter Grass Discusses His SS Past . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Glenn Reynolds quotes Megan McArdle on median household income : "You can't compare apples to oranges just because the apples are p...

... to The Picolata Review .

... On the shelf - experiments in bookness. (Via Petrona .)

... if this link will work, or if it's subscription only. I hope note, because Anti-Judaism needs to be widely read. This is an issue t...

... is quite interesting: Short-short Story Subscriptions . I hope to have more to say about this over the weekend.

... Still Waiting to Be Consulted . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... for review Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale . So far it is wonderful, so wonderful I want to get back to it. So that will be ...

... Brain scan shows that vegetative patients can think .

... let's consider a real threat to our civil liberties, one widely supported by many who are quick to decry any alleged loss under othe...

... Call Me Judas: Neighbors go to jail but Dr. Chaffin doesn't.

... Chet Raymo's Under a dark night sky . (Via Critical Mass .)

... How I Learned To Write - which also say much about how to teach. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... An Interview With IBPC Poetry Competition Judge David Biespiel . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... poetry serves no useful purpose? This poetry serves a very useful purpose: Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) ...

... from Terry Teachout's Almanac .

... and this is an unusual one: The Top 20 Greatest Banjo Paterson Poems of All Time .

... being escargots - To Clare: snail story .

... on vacation when this blog reached 100,000 page loads. But I'm here now and I guess I should note that we've now topped 125,000....

... Who Was Lorine Niedecker? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Michael Palmer: "Foremost Experimental Poet of His Generation"Wins $100K Wallace Stevens Prize . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Groan groan .

... is good news: Google opens up 200 years of news . (Hat tip, Dave Lull, who also sends along Rethinking Google's system Human-powere...

... Impetus Press at Pop Matters. (Note request for essays at top.)

... the finest American Catholic writer of the twentieth century . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) But he is also just a good novelist.

... and also appalling: Minx on The Silent Generation

... this link tp Jerry Coyne's TLS review of Frederick Crews's Follies of the Wise , which I had seen earlier, but had hesitated ove...

... Obsessed with Shakespeare . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... and Anthony Charles Lynton Blair: Triumph, triumph .

... at Petrona: Commonplace blogging book . Maxine also reports that Alatriste attracts thousands .

... some people: Lie back and think of Jesus . (Hat tip, Vikram Johri.)

... Prig Alert 2: Cyclists . Last summer, while walking home, on the other side of the street a cyclist riding on the sidewalk struck a pede...

... at Books, Words, and Writing: Podcast on Rhythm and Meaning .

... from being interviewed by the lovely and charming Lisa Coutant . Blogging will resume tomorrow, because I have some reading to do.

... The Realities of Evil . (Hat tip, Dave Lull - and be forewarned: There is pretty awful stuff recounted there.)

... though I've only had time to glance over it: "Winning Online" -- A Manifesto . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... The Plain English Campaign . C.S. Lewis comments somewhere on the utility of jargon as a necessary shorthand for scholars. He then goes...

... at The Bibliothecary .

... All Plots Move Deathward . (Hat tip again to Dave Lull, who has been very busy.)

... Seeds of wisdom and dissent . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... and how to deal with it: Terry Teachout's New world, old rules . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Terry's generous words are much appreciat...

... by far: will they just one day forget? And deserves to become widely known.

... but didn't want to link to it until I had read it: Simon Armitage's Out of the Blue , described as a Poem for 9/11, by the laure...

... I am at home today for the first writing day I've been able to schedule for a couple of weeks. So blogging is going to be light. But...

.. of good films lately - including, tonight, Factotum - but I would have to agree with this: Caine hits out against today's 'banal...

... with Family reading . Hooray!

... and we touched on the subject of earnings and the economy just the other day. Regarding the first link, it is useful to look at this, t...

... about books: Google Book Search driving surfers to booksellers . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... is by the incomparable Kay Ryan: Nightingale Floor . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Nation Mourns Loss of Historic Cultural Brand .

... on John Betjeman: A Triumphant Misfit . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Don't miss this link: In the Bivouac of Life: Longfellow and the Fate ...

... The return of the book . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Now if we can only get the people who run newspapers to notice.

... a couple of weeks ago, as it happens, that I would have more to say in reference to this post: Dick Margulis sends along ... Now's...

... That to philosophize is to learn to die .

... for the night (I spent a large part of the day at the office catching up on opening, sorting and shelving books - more about that tomorr...