Archive for November, 2006

Patrick Hughes’ Diary of Indignities gets its own book at last.

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In the Mood: Terry Teachout riffs on music and the pleasures of the flesh.

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Alison Bechdel, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Tea, and others contribute art, tarot readings and more for an ebay auction benefitting marginalized voices. (Via.)

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Was Louisa May Alcott infatuated with Hawthorne (“a rat with women”), Emerson — and Thoreau?

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From a former Houghton Mifflin employee: “Even though the company dropped me like a creepy date when [expurgated], I feel a certain loss every time I see Hufty Mufty, Old Mother Mifflin, get passed around like some pimp’s tired goods.”

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