Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. - Georg C...

... Two views of the YouTube Orchestra .

... A word to the wise . I thought I saw Terry there. I even thought for a nanosecond or two of introducing myself, but then figured, why in...

... Longing for Great Lost Works . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Celebrating Yeats, Revered for Verse, but Who Aspired to a Life in the Theater . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood . (Hat tip, Lee Low.)

... 'To Make Sense of What Takes Place' .

... Irritalin .

... Sir John Maddox: ... Sir John Maddox: Editor of Nature . ... The Skeptical Prophet . ... COMPLEXITY AND CATASTROPHE : A Talk With Sir J...

... Nature Podcast - April 16, 2009 . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... A Portrait of Grief .

... LJ's Mystery Spring Preview .

... A First. ... And Another .

... The Bat Segundo Show: Alex Rivera . ... The Bat Segundo Show: Laura Lippman .

... The existence of books, the joys of reading, and the reality of consciousness .

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. - François Mauri...

... Don’t go there .

... Flattery and glamour: how photographer Cecil Beaton triumphed .

... to me: Theology Has Consequences . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Religion and theology are not the same thing. The great religious traditions we...

... The Literary Tradition of Women .

... Announcing the 2009 Indies Choice Book Award Winners! (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Tips for Poets Inspired by Another Dead White Male . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Tim Winton in line for a fourth Miles Franklin prize .

... Sir Clement Freud: journalist, broadcaster, cook and former MP . ... A liberal talent . Sir Clement's stock of jokes and anecdotes w...

... Words and music . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) But for Dave I might not even know what's going on around here.

INTERVIEWER: Didn't you say somewhere, "I am for obscenity and against pornography"? MILLER: Well, it's very simple. The o...

More on their relationship

... of TLS Letters : Not a Shakespeare portrait, The Lit & Phil, Flann O'Brien, and more!

... Le Mot Juste . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) On the other hand: French-language bookstores dying east and west .

... 10th Annual LIT MAG MARATHON WEEKEND. And it's all free. Having just been to Manhattan, I can use an excuse to go again.

... In celebration of planetary poetry month 15 .

... at WFTC: On crime & thrillers: “The Big Move,” fiction by Paul Davis .

... in good company: `The Beautifullest Harmonies' . Coincidentally, I have just written something in which Cheever figures prominently...

... Not bad, for a silly singing contest .

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of b...

... C. S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra . ... On Ruth Pitter, poet and friend of C.S. Lewis . (Hat tip to Dave Lull for both links.) I ...

... was happening, but not what it was: Darkness visible .

... Archiving Writers' Work in the Age of E-Mail . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Debbie and I will be returning from Manhattan after seeing the Bonnard exhibition at the Met. Some posts have been scheduled for later, ...

... Hoshruba: The World's First Magical Fantasy Epic .

... through PubMatch .

... "He stuck out like a zoot suit at a Shaker funeral" .

... for a good hearty laugh: On Wine .

... from Mr. Twain: Whenever I Am About to Publish a Book .

... Onlie begetters .

... The Critic Giveth, the Critic Taketh Away .

... Scottish church lady finds her voice . (Hat tip, Joseph Chovanes.) This is the nearest I have ever come to seeing something even remotel...

... Iota Arrives!

This is what is ultimate in the human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know God. - Thomas Aquinas

... and more: "Thirty Meditations on Cod" .

... The Nebula Awards . (Via Brandywine Books .)

... If Only Literature Could Be a Cellphone-Free Zone . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) But not everyone has a cell phone (I don't) and not everyo...

... Christ and fragment 8 .

... In celebration of planetary poetry month 14 .

Kafka: the author who keeps on giving... The Nation on Franz

... Library book returned, 145 years overdue .

... Top 10 Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels .

... Living poetry: Strange Flesh by William Logan .

... In Defense of Open Access . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... The poetry, and wisdom, of Seamus Heaney . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In a recent interview, Heaney said he was often asked what the value o...

... about this? The virtues of uncertainty . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Faith, properly understood, does not offer certainty, but a means of copi...

... Anita Brookner . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... On The Road Again, Again . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke. No word on whether Maxine will be boogieing there as well.)

... First Self-Publishing Book Expo Planned . (Hat tip, Roger Miller.)

... Be On Guard When Online .

... Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) Announce 100 Semifinalists for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award . Three of them are from Pennsylvan...

... “Unreal as a Song”: An evening of new poetry with Ernest Hilbert, Lynn Levin, and Paul Siegell at Head House Books .

... Break Journalism Rules When You Blog? (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) Tell only part of the story because "the beauty of a blog is you can...

... From Venice to Varanasi . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... every possibility is shadowed by its negation, and nothing can ever be completed, be...

... Posterity makes its choice . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Maugham's The Painted Veil is also rather good, and art critic John Canaday thou...

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. - Jacques Marita...

... actually: Enameled Lady: How Katherine Anne Porter perfected herself. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think Katherine Anne Porter is consistent...

... it's National Library Week/School Library Media Month . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... In celebration of planetary poetry month 13 . ... Anne Carson 'takes' on Iceland .

... Robert Boswell, Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards and The Half-Known World . (Hat tip, Lee Lowe.)

... to Vote for your favourite modern artist .

... back when men were men: Best video of 1929: Around Cape Horn under sail .

... Remembering Deborah Digges . More here: Poet from Amherst commits suicide .

... The gods cannot be proved . I tend largely to agree with what both David and Elberry say, if only because the notion of God as the termi...

... Poetry Foundation spreads some dough araound.

... Sir John Maddox (1925-2009) - An Appreciation . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Now read this! James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake . I once saw Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy do a show. At one point Tommy announced that Liam ...

... What Type of Web Commenter Are You? (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... is up: Death and the importance of imagination .

... Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality ...

... Divine irony .

... Local Area Events .

... The Making of Samuel Beckett . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... This Blessed Plot . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... RIP: Derek Weiler [updated] . (Hat tip, Judith Fitzgerald.)

... Avison's awesome afterlife . ... In celebration of planetary poetry month 12 . ... In celebration of planetary poetry month 11 . ......

... One more Christian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... Passing On .

... the rhetoric: War By Any Other Name . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Beckett: A Birthday Thought . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know...

...I have a large article to finish writing. But here are a few links, courtesy of Dave Lull: ... `What We Know Not to Be Possible' ...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. - Robertson Davies

... for Easter Sunday.