If you’re reading one of the Bard’s plays, you can now join the global crowd–online–via Shakespeare’s Global Globe, the brainchild of an English professor at Carnegie Mellon. (Love the orbis-mundi URL.) The Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog has some background. As of 12:59 p.m. EST, 108 people are reading Shakespeare. Well, 108 people have logged on… Continue reading »
Archives for February 2008
Monthly archives for February, 2008
Another Plea to Lit Journos
If you find yourself reviewing James Wood’s new book, please don’t invoke Edmund Wilson in your lead. Trust me. It’s been done. Thanks. (More Woodiana here, if you must.)
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Another Reason to Love the LOC
Library of Congress blogger Matt Raymond reports the sad news that Harry Landis, one of the last two known American vets of World War I, died on Monday at the very respectable age of 108: That leaves 107-year-old Frank Buckles of Charles Town, W. Va., as the sole surviving American veteran of the “Great War”… Continue reading »
A Plea to Literary Journalists
Please stop profiling and otherwise making a fuss over James Wood. I hear he’s good. I hear he has a new book out (“an Olympian critic points out where major-league talents are getting it wrong,” the Independent says). I understand he likes to spend time with his children. Enough said.
