... courtesy of Dave Lull: Quote For The Day II .

... Billy Jones: It's Nomination Time! (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... April . Dutch elm disease did in the trees along the old Roosevelt Boulevard when I was in high school (and when that superhighway reall...

... Book review: Inspector Cataldo's Criminal Summer by Luigi Guicciardi .

... 'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love' . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... nor a dogmatist be: Can a Faith Commitment be Tentative? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) A living faith, one that is not a mere convenience, or...

... Mountain Dream Drawing .

... Renata Adler, David Shields, and the Panic Tone .

... Edmund Blunden: "Things Quiet And Unconcerned" . I am glad to have discovered First Known When Lost . I wonder if Nige know...

... Rats and cats--or, more properly, rats and cattiness . I have been reading Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale . The opening chapter i...

... Jane Asher wears the Villa of the Mysteries .

... The exact day . This is a great post.

... A New Short Story .

... Dark Passages: Trusting What We Hear - Or Not .

... Why The Prisoner Remake is Dire .

... Natural Disasters and the Wrath of God .

... Write Your Reviews, Take Your Vacation .

... Ten Influential Books .

... Top scarers: the most frightening fiction . I read it decades ago, but I remember Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" as an...

... 'Mencken on Mencken,' by Jonathan Yardley . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) These pieces remind us that he was uncommonly skilled at wh...

... South African melodrama is marked by menace . ... A village that grows ballplayers . ... Ellington's roili...

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain ...

... On Bones and Libraries . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Ron Slate on Three 2009 Poetry Titles by Terese Svoboda, Mark Nowak, and John Bradley .

... In Honor of Richard Poirier 1925-2009 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A number of reviews have appeared in recent weeks of Miranda Carter's George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road t...

... Why Belief in God Is Innate . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In his 1871 book, "The Descent of Man," Charles Darwin noted that anthrop...

... Why Belief in God Is Not Innate . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The fully opposable thumbs that make humans distinct from other primates evolve...

... Believing in Flannery O’Connor . In many of O’Connor’s best stories, “Parker’s Back” prominent among them, the religious theme is so su...

... Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Gene Roberts: Newsrooms Must Tell Their Own Cutback Stories for Democracy's Sake . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) This sounds good: We'...

... Murder on the Literary Express - Top 10 Train Thrillers .

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner (1808-...

... Baudelaire's Birthday . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... A Profound Solo Journey .

... Google Books Meets More Trouble .

... April 13th- 2nd Tuesdays Poetry Open Mic .

... Critics for breakfast by the Cam .

... of TLS Letters : ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Beach letters, and more!

... Mark Bowden on David Petraeus: The Professor of War . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... A Coffee Conjecture & My Nutritional Bricolage . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... RIP . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. - Charles Baudelaire , born on this date in 1821

... Top 25 bestselling signed books to date in 2010 .

... Tell Me A Story? The Library Of America Goes Viral . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Oh, and take a look at this: Jumping the (Literary) Shark . ...

... The Bias of Veteran Journalists . ... the reporters' questions weren't geared toward getting a better understanding of those po...

... Lost literature: the unknown unknowns .

... That's not what I wrote! When popular books gets turned into film, the authors often complain . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.) We recently ...

... Greek Lessons . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... In Retrospect: Michael Gorra on Shirley Hazzard’s “The Transit of Venus” . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... here are some events you should know about: TripleCanopy Programs .

... Who's Got My Extra?: An interview with Paul Siegell . And here's a review: jambandbootleg - Paul Siegell (A-Head Publishing) .

... Darwin and Lit Crit . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) One problem with this is that memes may not be real. And there is usual petitio : the argume...

... The Tattooed Poets Project: Joseph Millar .(Hat tip, Hedgie.)

... Talking Tao With Ron Hogan . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. - Edmund Husserl , born on this date in...

... The Road to Hell is Paved ... (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Williams controversially and famously thought ethical theory an evasion of life,...

... courtesy of Tim Davis.

... Let's get artists into our churches . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Rupert Murdoch to limit Google and Microsoft's access to his newspapers . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

... FIVE STAR SCRIPTS LAUNCHED TO TAKE AUTHORS FROM THE BOOKSHELF TO THE BIG SCREEN .

... Reading for life in women's prisons .

... `His Exact Knowledge of His Object' .

... A Break Out on Breaking News . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Petrarch: Just one look (1327) .

... Wolff to Newspapers: The Web is 'Not Something You're Ever Going to Understand' . (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but onl...

... Lisa reads: 212 by Alafair Burke .

... In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically .

... and John Edgar Wideman: Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Dave also sends along How will traditional pu...

... How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Visions of the economy .

... of TLS Letters : Madagascar in history, Vegetarianism, Auden’s pain, and more!

... 'A wisp of bast' . I haven't read Valmouth . I suppose I should.

... The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans .

One literature differs from another, prior or posterior, less because of the text than because of the way in which it is read: if I were gra...

... Are Essays Viable in the Twenty-First Century? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... to Old Possum. Burnt Noodle Garlic and peppers in the sauce Clot the bedded cooking pot, The twirling noodle in the brine Si...

... from Der Spiegel: Climate Catastrophe: A Superstorm for Global Warming Research . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Dave also sends along this piece...

... Sir Christopher Lee reads Jabberwocky .

... Is art the highest form of sanity? ... Philip Pullman’s parable of ‘the scoundrel Christ’ .

... I can’t wait to buy an iPad so I can replace it with something better .

... 2008 Hugo Awards Finalists .

... Five Chapters: Lighter Than Air — Part One .

... for tonight: WWG Live at Ken’s Kabaret .

... The Possessed , or: Creative Writing and Curiosity . (Hat ti[, Dave Lull.)

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. - Thomas Aquinas

... Writers at Rest: Henry James .

... Book Hunter Press Acquires Apple’s iPad . (Please note the date of the post.)

... Attention and Intelligence . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-obser...

... Poetry Month , with a Web page featuring seven sort-of local poets reading from their work. See also: April may be fullest month for ...

... include: ... my review of A Postcard From the Volcano : Mournful strains from Germany between wars . ... Ed Champion on the late Donald...

The newest volume of Rain Taxi Review is out. I have a piece in it on Jerry Gabriel's masterful collection of stories, Drowned Boy . Ha...

... Lewis Putnam Turco. Satan’s Scourge, A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft, a book review by Joe Danciger .

... Nigel Beale is in town and we're going to lunch. We are having friends over for Easter dinner tomorrow, and I have much work to do i...

The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do. - G.K. Chesterton , The Everlasting Man

... More Two-Sitting Reads .

... Poetry for World Autism Awareness Day: "Song for One Who Cannot Speak".