... HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Bertrand Russell's mathematical quest adds up to unlikely graphic novel hit . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. - Søren...

... and it's hilarious : My Bloody Madeleine: The Making of "Swann's Blood."

... Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer." This dates to 1986. I was 44 going on 45. He was a mere 36. He looks now, if not older tha...

... Peter Stothard on An act in three tragedies . (Hat tip, Judith Fitzgerald.)

... I tend to agree with Malcolm Gladwell: What if Newspapers Had Just Been Invented?

... Is Kindle the new paperback?

... now: The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award .

... Dutch Treat .

... Holy Mystery! Mayhem at the Vatican . (Hat tip, Karen Heller.) One good thing about being a retired book editor is that I won't have...

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. - Elmore Leonard

... why baseball is interesting: The Secret of the Curve Ball Picked World's Best Illusion .

... Always Wright . Maybe a better explanation for the statuette in the preceding post is that some neolithic original came along and just d...

... Mia Couto's A River Called Time . Comes out in September. Looks interesting. Stay tuned.

... Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Actually, the headline notwithst...

... Sorrow, Pity, Celebration: France Under the Nazis .

... Media hypocrisy alert .

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. - Franz Werfel

... Yesterday was the birthday of J. Krishnamurti .

... OMGasp! Doc Stompin's goin' postal! ... A cool contest for newbie comin'-uppers .

While I would not go so far as to call William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) "one of the great books of our age" ...

... Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Maxine on Ethics of science communication on the web . Those interpreting science for the public, whether journalists, educators or othe...

... Vampires . (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... Buddhism and the dangers of pick'n'mix religion . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I have a deadline to meet, so I won't be blogging until afterward. Back later.

... Roger Simon: How Ahmadinejad Made Me A Believer .

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. - G.K. Chesterton

... A cool contest for newbie comin'-uppers . ... The World Digital Library Project .

... WISE BLOOD as Catalyst for Spiritual Autobiography . The Hound of Heaven tracks us down in mysterious ways - and for His own purposes.

... Escape from Oneself . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) My own choice is Lawrence Durrell's. I think he captures better than the others do Cavaf...

... Tweetfic for CrimeTwitterers . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... from R.T. Great News About William Carlos Williams Audio . Top 10 Book Lists from the Guardian. A Refreshingly Accurate Review of THE W...

... LEVI ASHER — a writer in New York . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Martha Mason, Who Wrote Book About Her Decades in an Iron Lung, Dies at 71 . (Hat tip, Joseph Chovanes.)

... is up: Boredom, a kind of living deat h .

... with Derek Walcott . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

... to omega: Stephen Wolfram Reveals Radical New Formula for Web Search . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Dave also sends along this: New Search Tool...

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. - Henri Bergson

A solid Hemingway resource: The Society See also: The Conference

... London Evening Standard relaunch - who's sorry now? (Hat tip, Maxine Clarke.)

... The Founding of the Cleveland Poetry Center .

... meets perfect beauty: Death in Venice">Now read this! Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice . I'm a Tonio Kröger fan myself. But I ...

... Browning's Birthday .

... Richard Holmes on The Great de Staël . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... de Staël's own life, for all its social and moneyed privilege, all ...

... A Sleuth Goes to the Library . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) ... we learn that Milton's three daughters did not, as legend has it, serve as...

... The masterpiece that killed George Orwell . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I was not aware - at least not consciously - that it was Orwell who co...

... Local Area Events . I will be at the Elmore Leonard event. I'm introducing him.

... Keeper of the literary flame . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Poet's Choice: 'Cocoanut Grove' by Ron Slate . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies

... Attention local writers ... Post bumped.

... to The Kindly Ones : Littel’s big book may be a masterpiece . Michiko Kakutani was not alone in her dislike of this book, however. Ruth ...

... Holding College Chiefs to Their Words . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I have to say I thought most of them sounded pretty pedestrian - except fo...

... and that's always good to know: Hitch, Fish and Tel . That probably helped him cope with The Morbid Age .

... of The Fox Chase Review .

... and fact-checkers at work again: Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists' research . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) A key part of th...

...for a poem (as Shameless would say): Still Life There is nowhere We can meet, the city Gray as clouds, streets Emptier than air, and we C...

... 'Useless info' about '08 Phils? No way . ... The underpinning of liberalism . ... Materfamilias and ...

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. - W. H. Auden

... as her comment proves. Here is Patrick's post (thanks to Dave): `The Rebellion of Particulars' . And here is mine, linking to Ju...

That's Maud Newton on the cover of Narrative magazine's spring issue. Just scroll down. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Sic transit gloria mundi ( this is a must read). But see also, on an entirely different note, Philip Larkin's judicial legacy .

... A tale of romance by the king of chick lit – Napoleon Bonaparte . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... 'Odious Column' of Metal . Too bad, though, about that "gigantic working guillotine."

... Madame Bovary Meets the Mouse Click . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This brings to mind a joke about Minnie, Mickey and Goofy, but I won't f...

... no rhyme: I die .

... Kenneth Branagh on 'Wallander' . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. - Georges Bernanos

... for Bryan, who recently had something to say about the Texas governor's position regarding state sovereignty: NOW IT’S TENNESSEE . T...

... one extraordinary, the other not: Thomas Mann's house of exiles . There is, first and foremost, Thomas Mann, a creature of such sup...

... Sex with Anne Boleyn .

... Michael Ondaatje = Ry Cooder fanatic .

... Robin Blaser: Sic transit gloria mundi .

... Publishers & Librarians: Two Cultures, One Goal . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Philly's Brian Tierney on Web Future, Federal Aid and Bankruptcy . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: DR. NO . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... and Bryan weighs in: Ink Will Win . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Me? I have no idea what the outcome of all this will be. But there was a time ...

... National treasure? Not Alan Bennett . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... of TLS Letters : Opera and theatre in Britain, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Praying and smoking, and more.

... but not blokes, either: Gentility Takes a Holiday . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... for anyone who recalls Kenneth Tynan as he actually was --...

... Nietzsche’s Love Triangle Part I . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my ...

... Quick Kindle DX roundup .

... Help save Al and Eurithe Purdy's A-frame .

... and obey: The deification of Earth . Lovelock is 90 years old this year – and most people’s great-grandfathers are a mix of interesting ...

... NEW BOOK TELEVISION SHOW, OPEN BOOK, PREMIERES NATIONALLY ON LINK TV MONDAY, MAY 11TH AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH .

... National Endowment for the Arts Announces International Literary Exchange Award to Copper Canyon Press .

... well-deserved praise for our favorite OWL: elberry on a Dave Lull .

... Poet homes in on an ancient vision . Cavafy manages in these translations to animate a range of antique characters in a poetic idiom tha...

... Kindle, books and being in the world . This is the simgle most intelligent discussion of this issue that I have read.

... Changing your mind about consciousness . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) What [Noë] does show is why the reductionist notion that brain states are...

... Saving our independent and diverse newspapers .

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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... A review of Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius: Buried Pleasure . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Huston Smith’s Wonderful Life . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I happen to agree that it is better to accentuate what the different faiths have i...

... I almost forgot: Kindle DX Debuts ‘This Summer’ . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Reviewing: the nastiness test . ... Burgled! (This isn't good.) ... Should the poet laureate answer questions?